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Transform Your Smile with State-of-the-Art Dental Implants
Many people face tooth loss, whether due to decay, periodontal disease, injury, or other factors. If you’re one of the millions of people with extensive tooth loss, this can profoundly affect your daily life. Difficulty chewing, speaking, smiling, and laughing confidently can negatively impact your physical and emotional well-being and cause a hit to your social life and career. But you don’t have to struggle with smile gaps or ill-fitting dentures because advances in implant technology have greatly expanded your choices.
A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that permanently replaces a missing tooth, composed of the implant post, abutment, and crown. The titanium implant post resembles a screw or cylinder and assumes the role of the missing tooth root after fusing with your jawbone. Dental implants at Gallatin Valley Surgical Arts act as stable anchors, connecting the abutment(s) to the zirconia crown(s), bridge, or full-mouth prosthesis. Our skilled board-certified oral surgeon will assess your individual needs, address your concerns, and guide you through the process with clarity and expertise, whether you need a single implant or full-mouth dental implants in Bozeman, MT.
The Many Advantages of Dental Implants
- Improves chewing and speech
- Enables eating the foods you love
- Provides the longest-lasting and most durable solution
- Looks and feels like natural teeth
- Prevents jaw deterioration and undesirable facial changes
- Delivers high success rates with proper placement and care
- Improves smile confidence and self-esteem
- Requires the same oral hygiene as natural teeth
The Steps Involved in Your Dental Implant Journey
Consult & Planning
During your consultation, Dr. Hall will ask about your goals, review your medical history, perform a comprehensive exam, and analyze your needs with diagnostic imaging. In addition to digital X-rays, once it’s established that you’re moving forward, we’ll likely take a 3D image with our cone beam computed tomography to assess your underlying structures and plan precision implant placement.
We will also discuss anesthesia options, provide detailed preoperative guidelines, and share details about the entire process. Before leaving our office, we want to ensure you understand every aspect of your journey to a restored smile with dental implants in Bozeman, MT!
The Procedure
Preliminary oral surgery procedures, such as tooth extraction and/or bone grafting, may be necessary before implant placement. During your procedure, Dr. Hall makes small incisions in your gum tissue to expose your jawbone, drills tiny holes in the bone using a special tool, and then precisely places dental implants in predetermined locations.
If you’re getting full-mouth dental implants at Gallatin Valley Surgical Arts, a minimum of four implants are placed in each arch, and you may be fitted with a temporary prosthesis on the same day as surgery, depending on the implant protocol we use.
Follow-Up Visits
Follow-up visits are crucial to ensure the healing process progresses and the dental implants fuse correctly with your jawbone. Although uncommon, an aggressive inflammatory process called peri-implantitis can lead to the loss of soft and hard tissue around implants and failure without intervention.
During these visits, Dr. Hall will assess your dental implants, examine your bite alignment, and check for any signs of infection or inflammation. If you received full-mouth dental implants, she’ll check your temporary teeth to ensure they’re comfortable and not causing any issues.
Healing & Final Restorations
It typically takes three to six months for dental implants to fuse with your jawbone in a process called osseointegration. If you received a single implant, the abutment is installed if it wasn’t placed during implant surgery.
Complete implant integration is mandatory before installing the restorative crown, bridge, or full-mouth prosthesis. If you received full-mouth dental implants, your temporary teeth are replaced with beautifully fabricated zirconia teeth that are color-matched and shaped to look natural and complement your facial aesthetics.
What Sets Our Implant Surgeon Apart from the Rest
At Gallatin Valley Surgical Arts, you’re placing your smile in the expert hands of our board-certified oral surgeon and medical doctor, Dr. Brenda Hall. With rigorous residency training focused on complex facial and jaw surgery, including dental implant placement, Dr. Hall is uniquely qualified in the art and science of dental implantology, including handling complex cases.
Combining medical knowledge and training with advanced technologies and streamlined protocols, Dr. Hall is adept at meticulous planning and precision surgery, delivering implants with optimal long-term functionality and aesthetics. As a board-certified oral surgeon, she is also trained in administering various anesthesia options, including IV sedation and general anesthesia.
- Single Implants
- Implant Supported Bridge
- Implant Supported Dentures
- Full Mouth Dental Implants
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Experience Cost-Effective Dental Implant Transformation
At Gallatin Valley Surgical Arts, fantastic smile transformations are delivered with high-quality yet affordable dental implants in Bozeman, MT. If you’re considering dental implants and worried about the dental implant cost, we strive to offer competitive prices and various dental financing options. We believe in open communication, so we’ll provide an accurate estimate and discuss payment options to help you determine the best course of action. You deserve to smile with newfound confidence, so we strive to make the dental implant process as comfortable and affordable as possible!
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