What is a Dental Implant?
A dental implant is a specialist fixture made from Titanium that permanently replaces the root of a missing tooth.
Once in place, the dental implant “bonds” to bone, ensuring a firm setting so that, for a single tooth, a crown can be attached. To replace multiple missing teeth, more complex attachments are used, utilising the security of the dental implant to ensure a new smile that can last a lifetime.
Why are dental implants needed?
The loss of even a single tooth over time can lead to a loss of self confidence and worry about how people perceive you - as well as mechanical difficulties with chewing. If many teeth are missing, then a lack of facial support can also become apparent leading to a change in facial profile, having a subsequent effect on your self-image and overall happiness.
Missing teeth can also cause adjacent, otherwise healthy teeth to drift or tilt, and implants can be vital to preventing further changes to your dental health - as well as ensuring that chewing is well balanced, which helps to further protect your remaining natural teeth. In the past many people have not been offered any tooth replacement treatments until after multiple teeth have been lost - and then often the only solution available was a denture. Unfortunately, dentures rarely provide the correct support for your remaining teeth, and often result in a loss of confidence for the wearer.
Dental implant treatments replace missing front and back teeth in order to improve your smile and restore your confidence - as well as allowing you to eat normally with restored chewing, and provide stability for your remaining natural teeth that helps to prevent further damage and tooth loss.
Which dental implant solution does 7oaks use?
With over 500 dental implant manufacturers worldwide, choosing the right dental implant system is fundamental to providing implant treatments of the highest quality with results that can truly last a lifetime. Focusing on a single, industry-leading system allows our dental surgeons to fully understand the materials used, the design features and the quality of the final product - resulting in definable, consistent outcomes for patients that can be explored during the consultation.
7oaks Clinic Advanced Dental Implant Care utilises the Adin dental implant system:
Single Tooth Implant
When you have a single tooth missing a dental implant will provide the ultimate replacement as it does not involve further damage to the adjacent teeth, it preserves bone long term, providing chewing support in order to protect the other teeth, and provides the next best thing to a natural tooth.
A single implant is usually a simple procedure, painless, and carried out under local anaesthetic. You will always have a temporary replacement, if required, during your treatment, never having a gap in the smile. Each person’s individual requirements will always be considered when planning the type of temporary provided.
Single Implant
| Consultation | Free |
| 2D Radiographs | Free* |
| CT Scans | £125 |
| Completed implant and Zirconia crown | £1595 |
Additional costs apply for bone grafting, sinus lift or tooth extraction (if required).
*Included with the Dental Implant Consultation, and cannot be requested individually.
Multiple Tooth Implants
If multiple teeth are missing dental implants are even more important when considering a fixed replacement. Conventional bridges, using teeth at each end of the gap, are known to be more prone to failure when used over longer spaces.
Dental implants work independently of the adjacent teeth, thus preserving them and prolonging the life of the surrounding natural teeth. Dental implants also spread the load during chewing and help to preserve bone in the area. Dentures used in these areas are generally poor at spreading load and result in more bone loss in the area over time.
Multiple missing teeth can often be replaced using a bridge on implants, thereby reducing the cost, as not every tooth being replaced requires it’s own implant.
Multiple Implants
| Consultation | Free |
| 2D Radiographs | Free* |
| CT Scan | £125 |
| Completed treatment with 2 implants and three tooth Zirconia bridge | £3,740 |
| Completed treatment with 3 implants and five tooth Zirconia bridge | £5,885 |
Additional costs apply for bone grafting, sinus lift or tooth extraction (if required).
*Included with the Dental Implant Consultation, and cannot be requested individually.
Full Arch Treatments
The loss of all of the teeth in a upper or lower jaw can be an extremely debilitating experience for anyone. The only non-implant option is a full denture. Unfortunately, a denture of this size can have a significant impact on an individual’s confidence and quality of life.
Dental implants provide a number of options for improving the predicament for someone in this position. They are multiple implants and a fixed bridge, four to six implants and fixed Hybrid Denture (often referred to as an “All-on-4” restoration), and an over denture supported by implants.
The choice of which solution is right for someone depends on the individual patient wishes, bone availability and cost of treatment. Many patients about to lose their teeth can have the option of a fixed temporary replacement on the same day as the teeth are extracted and implants placed, often called “Same Day Teeth” or “Teeth in a Day” (subject to a suitability assessment). This avoids the wearing of even a temporary denture during the treatment.
Full Arch Implant
| Consultation | Free |
| 2D Radiographs | Free* |
| CT Scan | £125 |
| Full Arch Same Day Fixed teeth (“All-on-4”) Hybrid |
£11,995 |
| Full arch Same Day fixed teeth with a final Zirconia ceramic bridge | From £15,210 |
Additional costs apply for bone grafting, sinus lift or tooth extraction (if required).
Bone grafting and Sinus grafting
Bone loss can occur for many reasons, including following the loss of teeth, from pre-existing tooth infections and as a result of gum disease. This means bone grafting, sometimes called bone augmentation, is necessary to achieve a good dental implant outcome.
There is a very wide choice of grafting materials and techniques, and should you require grafting, we will explain why and how this can be achieved, along with the preferred materials for an individual’s requirements. In most instances grafting is carried out at the time of implants being placed so completion of treatment is not delayed. Occasionally, it is necessary to graft in advance of implants being placed.
Nowadays, there have been many developments in grafting techniques and materials, and this has resulted in fewer animal or human products being required, with us now favouring in most cases to use synthetic products that result in superior outcomes.
Sinus grafting techniques have also undergone a dramatic change over the past ten years, with significantly less invasive surgery being required in the vast majority of cases. This has reduced the surgical trauma and has resulted in a significantly improved patient experience.
Pay monthly for your treatment with the 7oaks Clinic Payment Plans
Instead of paying up front for your full treatment cost, why not apply for finance and spread the cost of your treatment over a 12-month interest free period! Speak to our helpful staff today and see how we can assist in organising this - The finance is processed by our partner, dental and medical payment plan experts, Chrysalis Finance, who will ensure to help you with any finance related queries along the way!
Find out more and calculate for yourself the monthly repayments for your treatment by entering the cost in the Chrysalis calculator here.
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