During your consultation, we’ll discuss your smile goals and perform a thorough dental exam. Using our low-radiation cone beam CT (CBCT) scanner, we can capture 3D x-ray images that show your teeth and jawbone from all possible angles. We also have an intraoral scanner and 3D printer at our disposal. Using all the information we collect, we’ll customize a treatment plan that will make your smile look and feel exactly as you want it to. This includes planning for your dental implant procedure to ensure a smooth process.

If you’ve been turned down for dental implants at another practice, let us reassure you that we still may be able to help! We offer complimentary second opinions. Once you’ve decided that full mouth dental implants are for you, we can schedule your placement surgery.

When you come back to our office for your dental implant placement procedure, we’ll first make you comfortable with one of our sedation options. These will keep you relaxed and pain-free throughout your surgery. We’ll then perform any preparatory treatments you may require, such as bone grafting to rebuild a decaying jawbone and tooth extractions to make room for your implants. We can also provide more complex treatments such as a sinus lift and/or ridge split to prepare your jaws to support implants.

Following those treatments, we’ll start the actual implant placement by putting surgical guides over your gums. Custom-made from the specifications we captured during your earlier imaging session, these guides have pre-positioned holes that help us place your implants at the ideal location, depth, and angle. By placement, we mean surgically inserting high-quality, screw-like implant posts into your jawbone. These are essentially replacement roots for your new teeth. We then may be able to provide temporary restorations that will enable you to eat and smile while your implant sites heal—a process that generally takes at least three months.