What Are Implants?

Dental Implants, similar to our natural tooth roots, are placed in the bone and may have different types of attachments placed above the gum line to hold onto different kinds of prosthetic tooth replacements, such as dentures and fixed porcelain crowns or bridges. Implants can actually be stronger and more stable than our own roots.

 

From the implant examples above, we might place 2 to 6 implants and attachments like "A" or "B" to stabilize a full lower denture (so they can "snap" into place). To replace a single missing tooth with a crown or to place a fixed porcelain bridge, we would place 1 to perhaps 8 implants and attachments like "C", as in the example below.