Dental Implants Massapequa Park • Long Island
Replace One Tooth, Multiple Teeth, or Your Entire Smile
Millions of adults lose teeth each year due to accidents, injury, or disease. In addition to diminishing self-confidence, missing teeth can cause bite problems, dietary restrictions, and bone loss. Now, there’s a stable solution to missing teeth that closely mimics nature’s design – dental implants.
With dental implants, Dr. Mohr and Dr. Ariel can secure a single tooth, several teeth, or even a full denture. You can smile, eat, and speak with complete confidence knowing that your tooth restoration is firmly anchored in place. When you visit our Massapequa Park, NY, dental office, you’ll find many solutions to the problem of missing teeth, and dental implants are the most modern and advanced option available today.
Why Choose Smile Creations for Dental Implants?
- Dentists with Advanced Training in Dental Implants
- Thousands of Successful Start-to-Finish Cases
- We Partner with Long Island’s Best Oral Surgeons & Periodontists
What is a Dental Implant?
A dental implant may sound complicated, but it's really based on a very simple design. If you've ever lost a tooth, you know that the portion you see when you smile is only part of the full picture. A tooth extends into the jawbone via the root. The jawbone surrounds it and holds it in place. A dental implant is simply an artificial tooth root made from titanium. Just like with a natural one, the jawbone surrounds the titanium and holds the implant firmly in place. Your dentist then attaches a custom crown, bridge, partial, or denture to the dental implant, giving you a fully functioning and completely renewed smile.
Dental Implant Placement
The first part of the dental implant procedure involves a minor surgery in which the new root or roots are placed directly into the jaw. For this, your dentist will refer you to a member of our dream team of surgical specialists who can achieve fantastic results and keep patients comfortable from start to finish. After the surgery, a patient will be given a few months to heal before they return to our office to receive their new teeth.
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Single-Tooth Dental Implants
Even a single missing tooth can put a smile at risk for numerous dental health problems, plus it can make a person feel extremely self-conscious, especially if it is one of the front teeth. Thankfully, dental implants provide the perfect solution to this problem. They are not only the most stable and reliable solution available today, but also the most natural-looking. Basically, a dental implant can make that gap in your smile seem like it never existed in the first place.
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Dental Implant Crowns & Bridges
To replace a single tooth, we’ll use what is called an implant crown. This will consist of the implant itself, a custom-made, all-porcelain crown, and a metal connector called an abutment. The crown will attach directly to the implant using the abutment, and once this is done, it will be virtually indistinguishable from your other teeth. We can even use implant crowns to form a bridge to replace multiple missing teeth in a row.
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Dental Implant Dentures
Removable dentures, especially lower ones, tend to slip and click at the most inopportune times. An implant-retained denture is a type of overdenture that is supported and attached to dental implants. They stabilize the denture and stimulate new bone growth, thereby preventing the bone loss that can cause dentures to become ill-fitting over time. We offer several types of implant-retained dentures to Massapequa Park and the surrounding communities, and we can accommodate a variety of needs with excellent solutions chosen based on lifestyle, oral health, and ultimate goals.
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Overdentures
As their name indicates, overdentures are smaller and thinner than traditional ones. This makes them an ideal solution for patients whose jawbone is too thin or brittle to support regular implants. With them, now even more people can benefit from the most complete dental restoration available today. Even though they are smaller, they can still be used to support a denture with a much more secure hold than a traditional removable prosthetic.
All-on-4/Teeth-in-a-Day
With All-on-4, we can restore an entire row of missing teeth in just one well-planned visit. One of our expert surgical partners will place just four implants strategically into a patient’s mouth, and this will be all that is needed to support a strong, implant-retained denture that a patient will receive the same day. A person can wake up that morning with an incomplete smile and go to bed with a full set of teeth thanks to this procedure.
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Am I a Candidate for Dental Implants?
Dental implants have quickly become the most highly regarded tooth replacement available today, but are they right for your smile? Factors such as dental health, overall health, and even jawbone density all play a factor in determining whether or not implants are a good fit for your smile. If you’re curious to know whether or not you’re a good candidate for dental implants, the link below will give you plenty of useful information.
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Understanding the Cost of Dental Implants
Every dental implant treatment we provide is personalized based on the needs of the patient, which means the overall cost of the procedure can vary from person to person. Factors such as how many teeth need to be replaced, what kind of restoration is used, and even the location of the implants can influence the final price. What can make your dental implants more or less expensive? Can they be covered by insurance? Follow the link to learn more.
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Dental Implant Failure & Salvage
Are you starting to feel concerned about your dental implant because it’s causing you pain or feeling loose? While dental implant failure is rare, it can still happen, but you don’t have to just sit by and wait for things to get worse.
Our team can determine what is causing your problem, and better yet, help you get the strong and reliable restoration you expected in the first place.
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Dental Implant Post-Op Instructions
Thanks to our Dream Team of local dental specialists, patients at Smile Creations have the peace of mind knowing that their dental implants will be placed by a highly trained oral surgeon who has played a central role in many of our most dramatic transformations. Of course, most patients want to know what their recovery period will be like and how it will impact their lives, and you’ll find out what to expect by clicking the button below.
What to Do Directly After Dental Implant Surgery
To put it succinctly, the primary thing you should do on the day of your implant surgery is rest. You may feel a little groggy if sedation was used, and it’s important that you don’t move around too much so that the surgery site has a chance to clot. This will protect the tissues as they heal and give your posts the best environment for osseointegration to take place.
Common Side Effects When Recovering from Dental Implant Placement
You can expect to feel a little soreness and experience some minor bleeding and swelling following dental implant surgery. Thankfully, these tend to be relatively mild and brief. You may be prescribed pain medication, but often, over-the-counter options are enough to help someone stay comfortable. You should avoid taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) as this can thin the blood and make bleeding worse.
Your Diet After Dental Implant Surgery
Before your dental implant surgery, it’s wise to stock up on soft food items that don’t require a lot of chewing. This will save you from having to run to the store whilst recovering! Some of the items we suggest include:
- Oatmeal
- Sugar-free yogurt
- Shakes of all varieties (but don’t drink them with a straw)
- Eggs
- Pasta
- Soup
- Pudding
Post-Op Health & Oral Hygiene
Depending on how many dental implants you had placed at one time, you may be able to brush your teeth the evening following surgery—just make sure to avoid the treatment area. But, if you received multiple extractions and posts, it may be easier to just rinse your mouth with saltwater initially. This needs to be done very gently, and you shouldn’t spit—let the toothpaste or water fall from your mouth, letting gravity do most of the work. Actively spitting can potentially disrupt the clotting process, which can dramatically slow down your recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dental Implants
Have questions about dental implants? Want to know how long they take to get, how the procedure feels, and what they might cost? You’ll find answers to these and more of the most popular implant questions our team receives every day at the link below. It’s a great place to start if you’re thinking about getting this treatment because, at Smile Creations, we want to make sure you have all the information you need about your care options.
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Dental Implant Tooth Replacements
Why should you consider dental implants? They were developed to dramatically improve the results of tooth replacement treatment, and they do. They offer greater strength, durability, aesthetics, and comfort. What more could you ask for in your dental treatment?
Under the expert eye of Dr. Mohr or Dr. Ariel, dental implants are the next best thing to nature, and you can see his beautiful results for yourself in the gallery below. We bet you wouldn’t even know these patients had dental implants unless we told you! That’s how great they always look.
Get the Best Dental Implants on Long Island
Tooth loss often causes more missing teeth, and while other restorative treatments can help replace them in an aesthetic sense, they do very little to prevent the tissue and bone atrophy that can cause real, long-term damage. However, we can now offer a predictable solution that is secure, long-lasting, and natural-looking – dental implants.
