The Lasting Benefits of Dental Implants: More Than Just a Beautiful Smile

When you have a missing tooth, there is often a visible gap in your smile if it’s a front tooth. Missing back teeth can pose other challenges, including functionality for chewing, bone loss, and an increased risk of gum disease and cavities in your remaining natural teeth. Using dental implants, Dr. Wayne Sutton can restore your smile and help you prevent a host of problems that can come with tooth loss. 

Hypoallergenic Tooth Replacement

Biocompatible dental implants function very similarly to your natural teeth. A titanium screw is placed directly into a patient’s jawbone. After a healing period, an abutment and crown are installed atop the screw to completely replace a missing tooth. 

Traditional Implants: Time for Healing Between Steps

Traditionally, the dental implant process can take up to a year. The titanium screw is placed, then it requires a few months to fully fuse with the jawbone and heal. When the abutment is attached, patients wait a few more months. Between six months to a year later, a porcelain crown is placed. The main advantage to going the traditional route is that your body has more time to heal between steps. 

Same-Day Dental Implants

Every year, hundreds of patients rely on Dr. Sutton for his knowledge and expertise in placing same-day implants. For this treatment, you’ll first have an examination and consultation. Dr. Sutton will then use state-of-the-art technology to plan your procedure. This planning will include designing your replacement teeth. With this process, the team can place your dental implants, fabricate your porcelain crown, and completely restore your smile in one appointment. 

Benefits of Same-Day Teeth Implants

The main benefit of having implants placed in one day is customer satisfaction. Many patients wish to forgo the traditional implant process. Other benefits include:

• Minimally invasive implant procedure
• Safe, easy, and predictable
• Function restored before you’re fully healed
• Minimal time missed from life and work commitments
• Full range of prosthetic options

Full-Mouth Dental Implant Treatment

With full-mouth implant treatment, dental implants work in pairs to restore a full dental arch across the lower and/or upper jaw. As few as four dental implants are able to anchor the entire arch. A full-mouth restoration also follows your bite’s natural curvature, ensuring there isn’t a bulky plat covering your mouth’s roof. 

Benefits of Full-Mouth Dental Implants

When Dr. Sutton uses four to six implants to fully restore your dental arch, you can enjoy these advantages:

• Facial structure is supported
• No need to remove oral appliances
• More durability than dentures
• Diet changes are not necessary
• Bone loss is prevented

Lifetime Smile Restoration

The materials used to create dental implants don’t decay. This means you’ll never get a cavity in a dental implant tooth. With proper care, you can expect your implants to last a lifetime. 

Dental Implants in My Area: Santa Rosa, CA

Dr. Wayne Sutton at Santa Rosa Dentistry and Implant Center in Santa Rosa, California, can work with you to give you a masterpiece smile. Call us at (707) 542-6772 today to schedule a consultation. You can also book an appointment using our online form. 

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Dr. Sutton is one of the premier cosmetic dentists in Sonoma County, and with over 25 years of experience, his implant center maintains a standard of excellence using the strongest dental implant bridge currently available to provide predictable full mouth dental implant reconstructions. 

Dr. Sutton completed his postgraduate studies at The Pacific Aesthetic Continuum in San Francisco and received his doctorate, three years of experience as a clinical instructor, and the coveted “Clinical Excellence Award” from UCSF School of Dentistry in 1997. He also earned his Fellowship in the Academy of Comprehensive Esthetics and studied Advanced Occlusion at the Hornbrook Group.

Dr. Sutton continues to take four times the annual continuing education requirements to maintain his license. As a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation (awarded his Fellowship), the Academy of General Dentistry (Fellowships status), the American Dental Implant Association (Diplomat status), the American Dental Association, the American Academy for Dental Sleep Medicine, Dr. Sutton is also a select cosmetic dentist recognized as an Official Dentist of the Mrs. Globe – Mrs. USA Pageants.