Dental Implants

If I've told you that you need a bone graft before an implant, it probably landed as unwelcome news: an extra procedure, extra months, extra cost. So let me explain what a graft is for, when it's genuinely needed, and when it isn't. It isn't an automatic step; it's a measurement question. Why bone shrinks after a tooth is gone The bone around a tooth root exists to hold that root. When you chew, force travels down into the bone, and that signal is part of what keeps it there.

Full dentures, partials, and what the first few months are really like. A Riverside dentist on how they are made, why the fit changes over time, and when implants are worth asking about.

Losing a tooth, or being told one has to come out, usually brings up the same question within a minute or two: what goes in the space? For most people the choice comes down to two options, a bridge or an implant. Both close the gap. They go about it in very different ways, and the right answer depends more on your mouth than on which one sounds better. What each one actually is A bridge uses the teeth on either side of the gap as support. We reshape those two teeth, cover the

A single-tooth implant into healthy bone usually takes three to six months from start to finished crown. Add an extraction or bone grafting and it runs longer. Here is what actually fills those months, what can be rushed, and what cannot.