Are you putting off getting dental implants due to your super busy schedule? You don’t have to do that anymore; same day dental implants have got you covered.
Modern day life constantly keeps us on our toes, hardly allowing us time for ourselves, but that is no excuse to neglect our dental health. In fact, leaving your missing teeth untreated will expose you to so many unforeseen struggles that would make you wish you had sought treatment at the very first instance of tooth loss.
Here’s the good news: now you don’t have to worry about any possible complications of missing teeth, nor about escaping your busy schedule — same day dental implants have come as an absolute savior for you!
Let’s discuss everything about same day implants in this blog, helping you kickstart your restorative journey instantly!
What Are Same Day Dental Implants?
As is pretty obvious from the name, same day dental implants is a restorative treatment where you can get dental implants surgically placed in your jaw, followed by the placement of prosthetic teeth on the implants, all on the ‘same day’!
For context, dental implants are artificial tooth roots that form the basis of all sorts of permanent dental prostheses (including permanent crowns, permanent bridges and permanent dentures) that most edentulous patients prefer nowadays because of their unmatched stability, functionality and aesthetics.
The Shortcomings Of Traditional Implants
Traditionally speaking, dental implants are placed into the patient’s jawbone via a surgical procedure. It’s a very lengthy and complex procedure involving several steps and stages, spanning over several months (if performed conventionally).
This makes conventional implant treatments super inconvenient for busy professionals and older adults who have neither the psychological nor the physical patience to drag themselves to the dentist’s chair (for months) to get their missing teeth replaced.
How Same Day Dental Implants Address These Shortcomings
Fortunately, the inconvenient placement process of implants has now become a thing of the past — as more and more people now opt for same day dental implants.
It’s a super quick treatment regimen that compresses the conventional (several-month-long) treatment timeline into a single-day process, making permanent teeth replacement feel like a breeze!
This is to say that all the core steps associated with dental implant treatments that conventionally take months to complete — including implant surgery, abutment attachment, and prosthesis loading — can now be done in one day only! That explains why the treatment is also commonly referred to as ‘one-day dental implants’.
But what about extractions, if required? Can you get a dental implant same day as extraction as well?
Absolutely! In the case of same day dental implants, you won’t even have to bear the usual healing period that follows after tooth extractions to get your implants placed. You can simply check into the dentist’s clinic, get your teeth extracted, get implants and temporary prosthetic teeth placed into the extracted teeth sites and walk out with a fully functional smile — all in literally one day!
Conventional Vs One Day Implants: A Logical Comparison Of The Process
If you’ve been following our discussion keenly, you must be wondering: why do conventional implants consume so much time in the first place?
This is a great question to ask at this point, as it would help us contextualize the discussion from a logical perspective (instead of simply claiming same-day dental implants to be quicker and better than traditional ones).
Let’s dissect both the treatment modes (i.e. conventional implants and same day implants) logically by taking implant dentures treatment as an example.
Conventional Implant Dentures Process
Suppose you’ve lost all of your teeth, so you want to get implant dentures (permanent artificial teeth that cover the whole dental arch) for yourself.
If performed conventionally, the implant denture treatment would take at least a year to complete and would have the following specifics:
- 6-8 dental implants would be required to support the denture (on average, some people might need even more implants if their jawbone lacks density).
- Each of these 6-8 implants is placed separately in a separate dental visit. If 6 implants are required for suppose, then you’d have to get them placed in 6 individual visits.
- That’s not all! Getting each implant placed in a separate visit doesn’t mean you can schedule all the visits consecutively; each visit must have a gap of at least 3-6 months in between! This gap is essential for osseointegration (bonding of implants with the jawbone) to occur, without which the implants won’t have enough strength/stability to support the denture.
Same Day Implant Denture Process
The implant denture procedure that took a year to be completed via the conventional route would take ‘just one day’ to be completed via the same day implant route.
This is unbelievably quick, right? But it’s absolutely possible!
Let’s see how the treatment typically goes:
- One amazing thing about same day dental implants (besides its super quick nature) is that it employs modern ‘conservative’ implant techniques, such as ‘all-on-4’ implants. This technique requires only 4 implants to support a denture as opposed to the he 6-8 implants required in a traditional procedure.
- There’s a very detailed planning and diagnostics visit ‘before’ the implant surgery, during which the implant placement is carefully planned, and the temporary denture fabrication is sorted beforehand. This preliminary visit is actually the hidden force behind the success of same day implants as it helps plan out the surgery with precision (using as tools like CBCT scans and 3D imaging) down to the smallest details.
- The implant surgery is performed at the next visit, during which ‘all’ of the implants are placed together (altogether skipping the 3-6 months of waiting period of osseointegration), followed by immediate loading of a temporary denture. This lets the patient walk out with a fully functional smile the same day as he walked in for the surgery, reflecting the true essence of same day dental implants.
- The implants used in this treatment have a specialized structure (with tapered ends, textured surfaces, shorter length, deeper threading and a monolithic design) to facilitate quick osseointegration.
- Moreover, their placement is extremely strategic: they’re placed in the most dense areas of the jawbone, away from sensitive anatomical structures. This ensures the implants have enough instant stability to support a temporary denture without any complications!
Same Day Dental Implants Safety
Are same day dental implants safe?
Let’s dispel your misconceptions right before you begin to be sceptical about the treatment’s effectiveness or safety: they are 100% safe and effective for people who are ‘eligible’ for them.
This includes people who have:
- Good oral health. This includes having healthy gums (with no active infections or gum disease) and adequate jawbone density to support the implants.
- Good general health, including physical and psychological fitness to undergo implant surgery. Also, there should be no severe or uncontrolled medical issues (like diabetes and immune disorders).
- No active addiction of any sort, including smoking, alcohol addiction or drug addiction.
Conclusion
Same day dental implants promises the best of both worlds: quick teeth replacement that’s also super effective and reliable!
For more details about same day implants, schedule a FREE consultation with Greenville Implant Clinic, a premium practice located in Greenville, South Carolina. Talk to our team of implant experts and materialize your dream of instant teeth replacement!
