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Dental Implant Process
What will happen if I have a dental implant at Ibbott and Co?
Everybody is different and different patients will have different treatment needs, but this is a rough outline of what you might expect if you come to see us for a dental implant.
1. The comprehensive assessment
First of all, you will see one of our dentists for a Comprehensive Assessment. The fee for this is £135 and one of our front desk team will ask you to pay this in advance when your appointment is arranged. We would like to take a digital scan of your teeth at this visit as well as x-ray pictures.
For straight forward dental implant cases, we will refer you, in the house, to Mr John Tighe for the placement of your dental implant. if your treatment is any more complex we may arrange a consultation with John first.
Please note that for patients who need to have a tooth removed it is usually necessary to wait for a minimum of eight to 12 weeks before it is possible to place the dental implant.
2. Your personal, written treatment plan
We will provide you with a written treatment plan detailing all aspects of the proposed treatment along with the timing of appointments and associated costs.
3. Placement of the dental implant by Mr John Tighe
This is done using a local anaesthetic and usually takes around 45 minutes. The implant is then left to heal (or to integrate with the bone in more technical terms). We usually leave this healing process to occur for roughly 12 weeks. If the implant is in an area of the mouth which is not important to you cosmetically we don't usually require a temporary tooth replacement but this can be arranged for a more visible gap.
4. Review of the implant
This is usually carried out 8 weeks after the implant has been placed just to cheque that everything has healed nicely and that the implant is firm.
5. Scan or impression for the implant crown.
We will now use a digital intraoral scanner to build up a 3D digital image of your mouth. This is then sent to our master technician who will build the bespoke crown for your implant.
6. Two weeks after this appointment the final crown will be fitted.
So the whole process from start to finish could be completed in as little as 3 1/2 months.
It's really important that your implant is continually monitored by having regular dental health assessments and hygienist visits. We would be delighted to have you as a regular patient at our practice but using your own dentist is absolutely fine as long as your mouth is being looked after on a regular basis.