When you have suffered from tooth loss, we want to help with lifelike and durable tooth replacement. With dental implants, we can secure a new tooth or even a set of fixed dentures. To ensure optimal placement, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons can employ digital x-rays and advanced surgical guides!
Planning with Digital Imaging
Dental implants are inserted into the jawbone directly, so we need to be able to assess the strength of the jaw and choose the best angles to insert these new tooth roots. With digital panoramic x-rays, we take 3D x-ray images of your smile, and do so using 90% less radiation. You place your chin on a rest and a machine will circle your head to gather a single image that encompasses your entire smile. The image is then sent instantly to a chairside monitor, so we can begin the planning process.
We also obtain cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of your head and mouth. These are 3D images that allow us to plan the placement and ensure we avoid contact with blood vessels, nerve tissues, and sinus cavities when we place new teeth. We also use these images if we need to strengthen your smile prior to placement with jawbone grafting or a sinus lift.
Placement with Surgical Guides
Once we have planned the procedure in detail, we can move forward with the placement of the dental implants themselves. With our detailed surgical guides, our team can use digital technology to plan and oversee the placement of these new roots, ensuring they sit at the right positions, angle, and depth to support new teeth and also stimulate the growth of jawbone structure to ensure your new teeth can last for years, possibly decades, to come. This ensures uniformity and also longevity, so you can smile with confidence for a long time to come.
Completing Your New Teeth
After we place your new tooth root or roots, we need to address the physical portion of your new tooth or teeth. Digital technology allows us to design and craft crowns and dentures that look natural and fit comfortably, ensuring a balanced bite in your smile. Our team can use crowns for an individual missing tooth, and we can complete a full set of new teeth if you receive All-On-Four implant dentures. If you have any questions about how we provide dental implants with digital technology, then contact our team today to learn more.
Ask Our Team About Digital Technology
We want to help you find the best solution to your tooth loss using advanced implant systems and technologies. To schedule an appointment with your Santa Rosa, CA, dentists, call our office today at 707-545-4625.