With dental implants, you are for sure going to make a life changing decision that will not only boost your life quality but also revive your self confidence. There is nothing like getting your teeth and that lovely smile back. Once your initial examination is conducted and dental implant procedure is scheduled, the doctor will primarily determine and make sure where teeth are missing and apt bone is available to support the dental implants. Most of the surgery procedures are conducted in a dentist’s office or in a hospital setting. Usually local anaesthesia is appropriate for patients but many other forms are also used for sedation including nitrous oxide or intravenous sedation. Each procedure is distinct all depending on the clinical situation along with the preference of dental surgeon.

The most popular and practiced approach is a ‘Staged Surgery’ procedure. The first stage comprises surgically burying the dental implant and replacing the tooth root with the bone underneath the gum that actually protects the implant during the healing process. During the second stage, the dental practitioner analyses the implant for its successful integration along with connecting post that could penetrate via the gum into the mouth known as abutment. Available in different forms, abutments could be even custom-moulded or manufactured by a dentist or a laboratory. According to the research, it has been determined that it is quite possible to place an apt abutment at the same time of dental implant procedure. Though, it has its own limitations but definitely can annihilate the requirement for a second surgery to expose it.

One Stage Surgery – This approach employs a one piece implant in which a metal collar is designed to bulge out via the gum while the bone is healing to the dental implant. Once healing is done, abutment can be connected allowing for fabrication and to substitute the missing tooth. This technique can be attained by instant linking of a temporary healing abutment with a two piece implant that sticks out through the gum in the same way as of one piece implant.

In all, both single stage as well as two stage dental implant procedures is successful and promising and it would be better to seek advice from your dental practitioner which systems they use and which approach will be beneficial for you.