Dr. Deepa Jayashankar Podcast

Yes,  dental implant is a surgical procedure  because  we  are  going to  drill a  titanium screw  into the bone in the missing  area,  and the we  are going to fix a  prosthetic area or the   crown portion of  the tooth.  The dental implant, which is the screw inside the bone, serves  as the root portion of  the missing  tooth.  When we talk  about the number  of  visits  for a dental implant, we  require  diagnostic  visit  where we  are  supposed to plan   the procedure  and are  supposed to take couple of  investigative scans,  x-ray and  decide  about  what are  the kind of implants  we are  going to place in this area,  and  we will   visualize the quality and the quantity of the bone  available to   us to drill the  implant  and then  we are  going to wait  and if  everything is  okay, we are  going to  wait  for  6  to  8 weeks  for osseointegration to occur. Osseointegration  means this is a  foreign body  which is drilled into the bone and there is  new  bone  formation  around the screw,  making this implant  a part of  your body and once there is  initial stability of the amount, we  will go ahead  and  we  will place the  prosthetic  part , that is the missing tooth  portion of  the implant.

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