Does Dental Implants Hurt
by Dental implants Flower Mound
Posted on 24-12-2022 02:49 am
What makes Dental Implants a painful process?
And I think that's probably one of the things most people think about when they're contemplating if I'm gonna replace a missing tooth with an implant is, you know what, having a screw drilled into my head, not into that, so not gonna get an implant. So they go without a tooth there, because of the fear of the pain, that's part of it.
Another part might be that you're not aware of the damage that's caused when you don't have a tooth where you used to have one. Obviously, there's going to be some shifting, and then there's going to have, so the tooth behind will shift forward, and the tooth above will shift down, so those are the two main things that happen when you are missing a tooth. The other thing that might occur when you're missing a tooth would be an imbalance.
So I relate it to a vehicle. If you had an 18-wheeler truck going down the highway, and I took away a couple of the wheels, it would still get down the highway just fine as long as they're not the front two that steer, but if I took them away, it would still be able to transfer the load.
Now if you take that same vehicle and fast forward 10, 20 years without having that balance, there's gonna be a lot of problems. Abnormal wear, and damage to the structure of the vehicle, our mouth is no different. So if we're missing teeth, there's gonna be a real concern, a real issue with the balance and health of our existing teeth. So, there's kind of the case for why you would want to replace a missing tooth. So they're kind of holding off on maybe getting an implant because of fear, or you're not fully understanding some of the consequences of missing a tooth.
We'll also show how I can help you significantly here at Innovative Dental to avoid the pain commonly associated with an implant procedure.
So to help explain that, when you typically are placing an implant, you would be placing it with a free-hand approach, where you're visualizing the tissue, and you're gonna place the implant with just vision and feel, and when you do that, you're gonna have to be able to see what you're placing your implant into. So the dentist, oral surgeon, periodontist, whoever's placing that implant is going to make an incision on the ridge of your bone, and they're gonna reflect the tissue. When they reflect that tissue away from your bone, now that tissue has to re-heal back to the bone. That is why the post-op discomfort and pain from an implant might be so severe.
It's why you might want to have a procedure where you're sedated, you're put under, because it's gonna be a long process, it's gonna be more invasive, and then the recovery is more painful. So Innovative Dental prides itself on using the latest technology and techniques to help avoid these things that are keeping people from experiencing the benefit of modern-day dentistry.
So, replacing the tooth and getting healthy. So this piece of technology right here, pretty slick, right, you can put your head in the middle of this, and it rotates around. You may have seen something like that at your dentist, and maybe your dentist does have this, but most don't, that device might be called a panoramic x-ray.
It just takes a two-dimensional picture of your jaw. This is a three-dimensional image, so much like a CAT scan that you might get at a medical facility, this can take a one-pass image and get a 3D image of your jaw. The 3D image that we can get with this machine is allowing us to visualize the bone. And now that we can visualize the bone, there's no need for that incision.
No need for the incision means next to no bleeding during the procedure.
We literally make a small, little tissue punch, something similar to a three-ring binder, so if you've ever seen one of those, a little punch like that, it's about that big, and it's about that small, and it works perfectly at giving us access to place the implant. Since we already know what the bone looks like, we can use a guide to a place that implants exactly where we want it with precision, safety, it's very quick, and it's painless, and you're gonna be like, painless, come on man, you can't place an implant painless.
Well, if you may or may not even need Tylenol that evening, I would consider that painless. And for most of our patients, almost all of our patients, that is what they will explain as their experience. After doing over 450 implants, I can tell you with certainty that our patients experience next to no discomfort, or post-op pain, because of this process of guided implant placement.