Dental implant placement involves oral surgery to replace missing teeth and return your smile to optimal health, function, and beauty. To ensure you feel comfortable, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons offer dental sedation to help improve your experience and keep you feeling comfortable.
The Placement Process
How do we place a dental implant anyway? Well, first we need to understand the factors behind your tooth loss. You may need to undergo treatment for underlying oral health issues, such as advanced periodontal disese. Managing these issues first will ensure your new teeth remain stable and secure for decades to come. Next, we use digital technology to look below the gums and plan the placement, avoiding sensitive nerve tissue and ensuring your new root stimulates the growth of jawbone tissue and supports a new crown or prosthetic. The same technology helps guide the placement too, ensuring we secure your new dental implant with precision and accuracy.
Dental Sedation
As you can see, the process will involve oral surgery, as your implant post will be inserted into the jawbone and act as a new root. To ensure you feel comfortable, we will numb the placement site and also discuss dental sedation. With sedation, patients undergoing more extensive treatments, or those with anxiety and special needs, remain calm and relaxed through the process, with no memory of the procedure afterward.
We could use nitrous oxide, administering a gas through a mask over the nose, to help you enter a calm and relaxed state. The effects wear off almost immediately once the procedure ends, so you can return to work or school. With oral sedation, you take a pill or liquid medication before the procedure begins and enter a deeper state of calm. The effects will take time to wear off, so a friend or family member will need to bring you home. The deepest form of sedation is IV. A trained anesthesiologist will be on hand the entire time, and will monitor your vitals and adjust your sedation throughout the process. Again, the effects will take time to wear off.
Restoration and Healing
Following placement, we may wait for the osseointegration process to occur before we add a restoration, so you may return for a future date. However, we also have All-On-Four and TreFoil systems that use very few implants and enable us to attach a prosthetic in the same visit, so you leave with a complete smile!
Ready for a Full Smile Again?
We would like to help you enjoy a comfortable experience as we complete your smile. To learn more about the process of restoring a smile suffering from tooth loss, then schedule a consultation by calling Santa Rosa Oral Surgery in Santa Rosa, CA, today at 707-545-4625.