Missing teeth can lead to serious trouble for your smile, and also impact your confidence levels. With dental implants, we can surgically insert new tooth roots and offer long-lasting tooth replacement. To ensure the placement process is comfortable, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons can provide sedation!
The Dental Implant Placement Process
Unlike traditional bridges and dentures, dental implants don’t require crowns, suction, adhesives, or clasps to stay in place. Instead, we will surgically insert the dental implant into the jaw directly, where it bonds with the jaw and is accepted by the body as natural root structure. When this happens, the flow of nutrients resumes and the jawbone is strengthened, which allows the new tooth root to stay in place for decades to come, possibly a lifetime. Our team can complete an individual dental implant with a lifelike and durable crown. For multiple missing teeth, we could even secure a bridge or a fixed denture. We plan the placement process in detail using advanced digital imaging and surgical guides. But we also take steps to ensure you are comfortable throughout the process with dental sedation.
Selecting the Right Option for You
Our team will take multiple factors into account when choosing a sedation for you, such as the treatment we are administering, as well as age, weight, and medical history. We also look at any medications you are taking, and will take your anxiety levels into account. With this information, we can help choose the right option to ensure your dental implant placement process is a comfortable one.
Dental Sedation
We have three different choices. The mild and most common option is nitrous oxide, which is breathed in through a mask over the nose. You enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, with little to no memory of the procedure. The effects can be adjusted during treatment and wear off once the procedure ends, so you can drive yourself home or even return to school or work.
If you need a deeper state of calm, we have oral sedation, taken in a pill or liquid form before the procedure begins. You enter a deeper state of calm with no memory of the procedure, but the effects take time to wear off, someone will need to be available to take you home.
The deepest form of calm is IV sedation, which provides a sleep-like state with little to no memory of the procedure. If you have any questions about sedation dentistry, then contact our team today.
Ask Our Team About Placing New Teeth
We want to help you smile with confidence again, and that involves placing dental implants to address the gaps in your smile. To schedule an appointment with your Santa Rosa, CA, dentists, call our office today at 707-545-4625.