Many patients experience tooth loss – whether
it be a single tooth that is lost or multiple teeth. New advances and
technical innovations make it possible to replace missing single teeth
permanently without treating or touching adjacent teeth, and the end
result is that only you will know that you have ever lost a tooth.
People
affected by tooth loss often find eating in public difficult and traumatic
or are not confident about their smile. When teeth are lost your jawbone
actually shrinks away, and from scientific research we know that wearing
dentures accelerates this process. This in turn affects the muscle
tone to the face reducing bone support for the lips and cheeks eventually
leading to a typical denture look as immortalised by famous cartoons,
where the lips and lower part of the face have collapsed producing
an ageing effect on the individual's appearance.
Dr Brookshaw was one of the first dentists in the UK to be trained using the new key hole surgery techniques with Nobel guide. Nobel guide allows the placing of implant, abutment and restorative crown to happen simultaneously. Conventionally this would take three visits. It allows Dr Brookshaw to see the exact position and depth of your implants even before surgery, thus making the procedure safer and much more predictable. There is also no healing time required prior to function.
Conventional implant success rates are 90-95%. That means that 1 in 10 in the upper jaw and 1 in 20 in the lower jaws. However during the last three years Dr Brookshaw with our new techniques has placed over 1500 implants with a success rate of 98.5%. |
