The Dental Implant Timeline: What to Expect at Every Stage

Dental implants. I want to kind of go over the different types of dental implants. So the first kind of dental implant that you'll see is just single tooth, right? So, hey, I've got one bad tooth and doc says, hey, need to take that tooth out and they may either bone graft it and you may the treatment plan for that is kind of like okay we'll take tooth out we're either going to bone graft and wait and then go ahead and put the implant in or you can get what's called an immediate implant which is where if the jawbone is available and we can get the implant into a favorable position we can take the tooth out and put an implant in the same day. That's gonna kinda cut down on the treatment time. It's also gonna save some of the gum tissue. Know, a a really challenging thing in the world of single tooth dentistry, right, is like making sure, especially in the front teeth, those are always the hardest, like making sure that the gums line up with the teeth next to it. You know, I'm sure everybody has seen somebody that's like smiled and they got one tooth that's significantly taller than the next. And that can be a significant challenge in the world of dental implant, single tooth dental implants. And so that's why immediates can be favorable. If your doc is kind of treatment planning an immediate implant and they have confidence in their ability, it's not a bad thing to do. But you know the implant you can see it's shaped like a tooth root you know essentially just a little screw right we you know we place a screw in the jaw we put it you know we won't put a tooth on that immediately because of the way that dental implants heal it's kind of like a broken bone, You go, you break your bone, they're gonna put you in a cast. You need that to be stable. Know, you don't want any movement over the time of healing. So if we were to put a tooth immediately on a single tooth implant, right? Those forces, you know, when you bite, not only do you have up and down forces, but you have some side to side forces. That will cause little micro movements in the implant and reduce its stability, and that will affect the healing, and it may cause it to fail. So that's that's the reason why, you know, you'll hear places like, teeth in a day, and then you'll go and oh, I've got to get a single tooth. You realize this can take a lot longer than this style of treatment. And it's just due to these implants are all attached together by a set of teeth, so that kind of prevents their movement. This one being a single tooth that tooth will still move and that implant can move so we've got to let that implant heal in the bone before we can put a tooth on it. The other style is a dental implant bridge so this would be something that gets treatment plan I mean most people know what like a dental bridges right where you got two teeth they prep them like crowns and then that you know these three teeth would go on natural teeth. Well the other option and this kind of goes back to that that partial denture we were talking about too this can even take the place of that partial denture you can put a couple dental implants in there and then you would just put three, four, five teeth on those two to three dental implants and that would act as a bridge and that's just going to kind of replace a section of teeth that are missing in your mouth right and so same thing though these have to go in they have to heal for four months and then we come back retake impressions and then replace that section of teeth that go on there. Both of these are wonderful options like if you're if you're only missing one tooth you're missing a couple and the other teeth are really healthy these are really wonderful options because as a doc I don't have to prep another tooth so I don't have to take a burr you know and remove any tooth material to put a bridge on it so it kind of saves your natural teeth this also acts more like a natural tooth you know you're not having to worry about that space that's there. You're not having to sacrifice another tooth in order to get that one tooth back. It's a great treatment plan for people that are only missing a couple teeth here, maybe one tooth, maybe a little section of tooth here. Now to kind of get into what we do here at Nuvia. And this is what we we have treated thousands and thousands of patients and this is called All On X. You might hear All On X, All On Four, Teeth in a Day, Next Day Teeth, Next Day Smile. Mean, there's there's hundreds of ways to talk about this prosthetic in the name of it and the reason is we call it On X or On four is we need you know four to six dental implants and we place those in the jaw in very specific spots and then we put a brand new set of a full arch. So, generally, it's first molar to first molar, 10 teeth, 12 teeth and that would take the place of somebody that if you needed to have all of your teeth removed, this is a great option for that. You know, it's similar to the denture, but this is fixed. So meaning that it doesn't move. So, and in a lot of cases, those implants go in, those teeth can go on either the same day or the very next day. We here at Nubia, we deliver a permanent solution the very next day for ours. And then that just means that you have fixed teeth, nothing's moving, and your chewing forces and your chewing function gets rehabilitated to 90 to 95 of what it was before you walked in through the door. Alright I kind of want to talk about some of the major pros of dental implant treatment. So dental implant treatment is more of a permanent solution. You know as long as you're healthy you know you take good care of it you know you do your hygiene everything needs maintenance in life right like these can really last a long time and hopefully for the rest of your life depending on you know obviously it really depends on you taking care of it. They prevent bone loss. Like I talked about earlier in the video where the body really needs something to stimulate and tell tell it to keep the you know use the energy to keep that jaw bone around they will act like a tooth root in an instance that the body will realize, okay, something's there, something's pushing force on it. I need to continue to keep this bone around because it's being used to support a structure. It does restore full function. In terms of denture we talked about about 30% chewing force right a you know a full arch of dental prosthodontist know dental teeth or even you know a bridge you're getting back into that 959899% function you you really would have to really struggle to find somebody who says they can't chew what they want to chew with a set of dentures. In a lot of cases, patients can actually chew harder with this set of teeth and we have to kind of build that in when we make these because with our natural teeth, like if you guys were to, you could feel a little human hair you can feel a little piece of you know paper right that feeling does kind of go away with this and then also if you were like squeeze on your teeth real hard say you're sitting in your chair watching this video and you just your body saying like Hey, stop. There's that pain response that's telling me like, Hey, you don't need to squeeze this hard. Well, with full arch and dental implants, they don't have a nerve ending so they do lose that feeling, right? So patients can squeeze hard. They can chew hard and so a lot of times we are retraining people like, Hey, don't have to chew as hard. The food's already cooked. You don't to kill that cow too. The burger's already ready and cooked for you. You don't have to go after it. And then also if you're healthy, you don't smoke, you don't have any other predisposed conditions, an implant's a ninety seven percent success rate. At Nuvia, we actually have ours a little more so we're right now over the years that we've collected our data, we're at ninety nine percent success rate meaning that the implants we place are still in those patients today. All right, I kind of want to review a couple of different timelines. So I kind of review the timeline of if you were to visit a provider that's non Nuvia provider and then kind of go over in the next slide what would be your timeline if you were to come to a Nuvia office. And this is talking about full arch on four on X. This isn't necessarily even talking about the single or the bridges anymore. Now we've kind of shifted our focus to those full sets of teeth on four to six dental implants. So as we call it the traditional teeth in a day method. And so you're always going to go through your initial records appointment. And that's going to happen on surgery day whether you visit a provider that's us or whether you visit one of our offices. You're going to go through there. We're going to get medical history. We're going make you're safe. The patient safety is always priority it should be a priority at every office you visit right we want to make sure you're healthy enough to undergo a procedure like this but we're also at that point in time like as a restorative doc we're looking at where your teeth currently are and A, we always ask the patient like, do you like your teeth, right? Because some patients come to us and their teeth are in a pretty good spot. They're just in bad shape and it's like, do you like about your teeth? And some patients like, look, I I want to have a set of teeth just like I have right now and then some people are like, hey, give me the Hollywood white smile, you know, and so so that appointment is really your opportunity as a patient to let those docs know what your expectations are what you want what your dream smile looks like right and so that all happens kind of before surgery. We'll also take a ton of measurements you get a bunch of x rays and we'll you know because then the planning portion of it goes in and then on surgery day so that's when we come in teeth will come out if you have teeth remaining if you've been in a set of dentures that's when we go in and we just kind of place the implants and you know the traditional manner that's been done for a long time we'll either take a denture which you may have your own or one may be made for you and we'll do what's called a conversion on that denture and that's where we actually take that denture and we reshape it and attach it to the implants and that kind of acts as your prosthetic during the healing phase. You're going to wear and then some other some other offices will print. They'll call it a printed PMMA where it goes through a three d printing process and they'll attach that. And so there's a number of different ways that these, that teeth in a day can be temporized. Every office has a little different workflow. It just depends on what the docs are comfortable using. And if they're using a lab, what the lab is comfortable doing. During that time, you're gonna wear those temps for four to ten months and that's going to be it's going to do a number of things. We're going check how the implants are healing make sure the speech is there phonetics are there make sure everything that you're happy with those teeth. Only you know one of the kind of the downfalls that a lot of times these temporary teeth is you know these acrylics these printed they're flexible materials and so they can lead to some breakages over the time and it doesn't always happen but it is something that can that can be a part of that process in getting a true temporary set of teeth. So they go through four to ten months and then when you're done with that four to ten months and you've been wearing this temporary you're going to go through the process again to remake that final. So you can go through a similar day of your records you know taking the implant positions understanding where the teeth are We go through what's called another wax try in, kind of like an indenture appointment we were describing before and making sure that those teeth are in the right position for you and you're happy with them and also honing in on that, making sure your bite is stable. So I mean in a traditional timeline where traditional teeth in a day it can take anywhere between four to six to twelve. I've had some of my own patients when I did it before the way we came up with here at Nuvia I had some of own patients in eighteen months still in temporaries. We were just trying to kind of hone the process and then get things to fit right. So it can take a little bit longer by going this route. It's not a bad route, but it can definitely take some time. Alright. So we just talked about our traditional timeline. Now I kinda wanna talk about what sets Nubia apart and kinda go over the we'll call it the the Nubia timeline. Your so we we deliver a true permanent set of teeth in twenty four hours. You will always go through that first records appointment. When you visit one of our offices, we're going to do a consult, we're going to a restorative appointment in the same manner as you would go over here. And that's the same thing as to, you know, go over your pricing, understand if you're really a candidate because once again, not everybody needs to have all their teeth removed like a lot of people have healthy teeth just because it's it is a treatment option doesn't mean it's your only one so it's worth your time to I mean also this is a great treatment option but if you feel like hey I've got some healthy teeth don't always understand that hey if somebody wants to take them all out visit a couple providers and you know and have them give you a couple different opinions right but so in our process you're going go through a restorative records appointment first same thing meeting with your docs understanding you know what your expectations are you know where do you want your teeth what do you want your smile to look like right we take all those records beforehand that'll go to our lab so that's a big difference too is that like our labs we we also develop our own prosthetics we're not working with you an outside lab. Then on your day of surgery you'll come in teeth to come out implants will go in our restorative docs will do a records appointment after your surgery after we wake you up from surgery we'll do a number of different records All of that will go to our lab overnight and that's where my current team is as you know I said I run the lab now. They work overnight and deliver you a true permanent set of teeth and so you will get those delivered the very next day. We don't go through a temporary process. We developed a way to make sure that the teeth are in the right spot and they're going to function really really well for you from the get go and so you don't have to worry about having a little softer material placed in your mouth or worried about those breakages over time. So our total time from you know the your day of surgery to your permanent teeth is roughly about twenty four hours. We still do see you for follow ups. It's not like hey you come to a newbie office twenty four hours you're good to go we let you go right. We still want to make sure that hey we see you you know a couple weeks later make sure your gums are healing great make sure the implants are looking good right and then we want to see we also see you at four months we want make sure you understand how to clean it make sure once again those implants have healed really really well you're happy with everything that we've done for you so it's not this hey we see you twenty four hours and then you're done. Like, we we do wanna establish that relationship and make sure that you're okay for the entire time. But in terms of what we do that's different, no temporaries. Get that final set of teeth and then you're back to living life. Alright I kind of wanted to talk about some of the costs of different dental implant treatment. So if you're looking at a single tooth you're looking anywhere between you know three to five ks and as we said earlier in the video mind you these costs are not absolutes every office is going to have a little different fee so we're just kind of giving you guys the ranges. Your All on X the style that we you know the treatment that we offer here at Nuvia this is going to offer you know this is to vary case by case and that includes providers locations even within our own centers because whether you're a patient that just needs a top arch you just need a bottom arch if you need a more advanced surgery the costs vary by those right and so to help you guys out Noobie has kind of we created our own cost and information guide and if you're interested you can just look in the link below. Alright so naturally one of the biggest questions and most frequent questions we get right is like how much does this cost? We can't can't tell you that over the internet right we can't give you a price because we've got to see your individual case. That's why we encourage people to come into a Nuvia office. Well we're going to take some x rays that's going to be reviewed by a doc and they're going look at your specific situation and we don't have any hidden fees you know it's everything is included in in our cost that we that we give to you but we want to make sure that your case is diagnosed correctly and that you're getting the treatment that you both need you know and deserve when you're you know when you are visiting one of our offices. Alright so as we did previously in the video I want to talk about some of the cons or challenges that you know can come about with dental implant treatment you know they can it can happen just the same as it does with dentures right so once again, I don't love the word cons because this is still an investment in your health, But these are some of the challenges that, you know, can be brought about by undergoing dental implant treatment. So the investment, it probably and it may be higher than most of the other options. Cheaper is a wrong word to use here, right? Because a denture is still a great treatment option. If where you have to go and that's where your dental journey takes you, that can be a wonderful treatment option and you don't have to feel bad about having to make that choice. Dental implants, it can be a little bit more expensive, right? The one thing everybody hates to talk about, implants can fail. This is any medical procedure. There are there can be complications with them. You know, we even in the best of patients, my own patients, you know, I I've like said, I don't even know how many thousands I've done at this point in time. I lost track at it, right? Like, the healthiest people sometimes implants fail. Most of the time that's not a big deal. We you know we take the implant out. We can put it in a new spot. We can graft things and let it heal and then we can come back later and replace it. There are some cases where it can be challenging but we will be honest with you like I always tell my patients like like if they came to me and a patient has waited years and years and years and they've had a ton of bone loss and I only have one shot at the surgery I'm gonna tell you that. Like, I'm gonna sit down in the chair. I wanna be real with you because I I want the patients to understand, like, not only is this a challenge for me and a challenge for them, like, I want them to have the true honest opinion and and the true honest potentials, right? It's you know, it's it's not it would be it would be not truthful of me to not tell a patient like, hey, like, we have one shot at this and this is, you know, and and we gotta make sure you take care of it. I'm going to do the things to the best of my ability but like, look, if an implant does fail, we may have to get back into a set of dentures and so but we will tell you that like that that's we we you deserve that as a patient we want to make sure that you're informed but overall you gotta remember implants and non smokers people who are healthy get ninety seven percent success rate. Right? There are very few medical procedures out there that are ninety seven percent success rate and at Nuvia once again ours is even higher than that. We're at ninety nine. So if we tell you things that can work out and we feel like and you're willing to partner with us because remember this is a partnership it's kind of like buying a car you can't just drive it off the lot and not put oil not put tires not take care of it right you still got to clean these you still got to visit us for follow ups like all those things are the maintenance of this it still requires maintenance and that's all part of the treatment And then when you do visit a provider that's a non Nuvia provider remember that you can be in a long treatment timeline. You can be four, six, ten, twelve months or even even longer. That's kind of the benefit of coming to a Nuvia office is that you can get that permanent set of teeth the very next day and after our follow ups you're on your way and you're back to living life. Alright so I know I just talked about hey implants can fail if you guys have any questions about that we did actually make a video which you can check out right here.