Most patients are slightly nervous about this phase of their treatment, but there really is no need to be.  We do everything possible to make surgery as stress-free as possible.

For the placement of a simple single implant, the actual surgery time is only about fifteen minutes, however that you will be booked in for a longer appointment to allow us to put you at ease and to give the local anaesthetic time to work.

The implant surgery is carried out extremely carefully, gently and precisely, and while it is a surgical procedure, most patients say it is far less traumatic than having a root treatment or tooth extraction. The expertise of your surgeons ensures that there should be remarkably little discomfort following treatment and you should require no more than simple, readily available painkillers.  Remember, if the gap where the implant is placed is visible we can then place and adjust a temporary tooth for you.

These appointments are spread out over a few weeks to allow the skilled technicians at our laboratory the time necessary to craft your new custom-made implant crowns.

The rest of implant dentistry is much like all dentistry you would have experienced in the past. You will be seen over two to three appointments to have impressions taken of your teeth and to accurately register the positions of the implants.

It is vital that your implants are cleaned very carefully by yourself and followed up by trained implant dentists.

At the end of your treatment it is important that you attend regular reviews and we recommend that these are with us at our Implant Centre. This is because very occasionally implants can be affected by bone loss around them, in the same way that gum disease can affect the bone around your own natural teeth.