A friend of mine had one tooth pulled and is having an implant put in. The tooth was pulled and she was able to have the implant screw put in the same day; however, she is saying that it will be 4 to 6 months recovery before the replacement tooth can actually be attached. This seems like a very long time.
If, for example, one needed all the (remaining) upper teeth pulled in preparation for an implant denture (four screws to permanently hold an entire set of upper teeth, like a denture but with no palate) would that take roughly the same amount of time? I gather that this is what Clear Choice offers, but I can’t get anyone to give an estimate of time from the first extraction to final attachment of the denture. It seems like they’re afraid that it would keep people from doing the procedure if they knew the truth. I also have a hard time understanding (or believing in) Clear Choice’s claim of “all in one day.”
Has anyone gone through this, or does anyone have any professional experience in this area?
I had a dental implant done recently. I’m looking at my calendar, but unfortunately, I only noted the dentist appointments and not what he did at the appointment. The first visit was November 10 of last year (2015). I believe he must have pulled the tooth then. I don’t think I got the screw put in at that time. It seems to me that some healing had to take place–but I don’t remember. At that point I had to avoid chewing on the side where the implant was going to go. I remember chewing on one side only at Thanksgiving.
I had the screw put in December 1 and the dentist told me they had to wait until the screw had become totally enveloped by my jawbone. They also put in there some bone material (from people and/or from horses) that facilitates your own jaw bone making new bone and setting the screw firmly in place. That took right at two months.
I have an appointment in my calendar for February 8, and that was when the dentist took an impression to make the implant (like they do for a crown).
The final appointment was February 24, 2016. So from first appointment to last: three months and two weeks. That all in one day thing does sound bogus. <shrug>
I just had two implants done, one on March 3 and the other April 7, complete with screws. The replacement teeth will be put in starting June 16 and finished on July 4 if all goes according to schedule.
This is the dental work I’ve mentioned before that is keeping me from leaving Thailand and heading to Hawaii anytime soon. Originally I thought I’d be leaving as early as next month, but this cropped up. My dentist – and a partner, they’re both working on me now – knows I am leaving and has assured me all will be finished by July. I’ve had this dentist for more than 20 years and trust him.
Step 1 : Extraction of molar & bone graft - to provide solid bone where roots once lived.
Step 2 : Four months later, drill hole in bone and screw in implant stud.
Step 3 : After Oral Sugeon is happy, return to regulat dentist for crown.
I believe titanium is the only metal that reliably osseointegrates into bone with the required strength and relatively little risk of infection. Its actually stronger than the original bone. I had jaw surgery where they had to basically cut off my upper jaw and move it into the correct position after two years in braces to correct a skeletal malocclusion that could not be fixed without surgery.
The 4-6 months seems in the right ballpark, as they had to place titanium screws and plates during my surgery to hold my jaw in place, the surgeon told me I think at 5 months it was really fully healed buy they usually say 6 months. I know there is something called immediate load implants, I’m not sure if that means they need to be placed right after extraction or what, but I think the surgeon must be a little more skilled when placing these. I know also the bone in the upper jaw is thinner than the bottom and so it is a little trickier if it is an upper dental implant.
I still hope that at some point in my lifetime they’ll just be able to regrow whole teeth or do away with any types of fillings and just regrow the decay. I’ve read they’ve regrown them in rabbits using stem cells, you would think that it couldn’t be that far away.
I am old, and my mandible has lost bone and bone density.
If you need bone chips implanted (mine came from cadaver), there may be quite some time before the bone is solid enough to use.
My DDS says he needs at least 8mm of bone to work with.
I won’t even guess how much that varies between upper and lower, young and old, maybe even among sex and race.
I’m having a dental implant and it’s taking a long time between appointments. However this is my own fault for becoming pregnant and being unable to have X-rays. It should take around six months from start to finish. It’ll actually be closer to a year.
This is one thing I’ll miss about Thailand. Both of mine together are costing $2600. Total. Also no dental insurance. But that’s also after a 10% discount my dentist is giving me just because I’ve been his patient for so long.
Mine was $3,500. I paid for it. I had just signed up for my first-ever dental insurance, but there’s a one-year waiting period before covering anything big like this (i.e., anything for which you’d need insurance :smack: ).
I had a tooth extracted in July. The dentist usually recommends seeing the oral surgeon for an implant 8 weeks later, but told me to wait 10 weeks because I had “a little bit of dry socket”. Life intervened and I didn’t see the surgeon until about 8 months after the extraction. I had the implant screw put in in March. My oral surgeon doesn’t believe in using bone grafts except in unusual cases, so I didn’t get one. My dentist predicted it would be 3 or 4 months from implantation to making the impression for the crown, but I saw my oral surgeon today and he says I’ll be ready after 10 weeks. It takes about two weeks for the lab to make the crown and return it to the dentist. I understand that some dentists can make their own crowns in the office but mine doesn’t do that.
So by the time I’m done it will have been about 10.5 months, but in theory it could have been about 5 months: 10 weeks from extraction from implantation, 10 weeks from implantation to impression and 2 weeks from impression to cementing the crown.
Dentist here. Lots of variation but most people are looking at around 3-6 months after the implant placement until final restoration. Don’t really know about Clear Choice but their wedsite says you’ll leave with a temporary and it will be weeks to months before the final restoration. Never seen any of their marketing so don’t know what they claim.
I’ll have two new ones soon. The surgeon will determine if he can put the implants in right away but he thinks he’ll be able to. That does not mean the prosthetic goes in then, the implant has to set and heal first, at least 3 months.
It depends on the implants primary stability when it’s being placed - meaning the amount of torque it took to “screw it in”. The higher (and therefore the denser the bone the implant is going in) the faster the implant can be restored (meaning get a core piece and a crown).
Usually bone density varies in a patient by patient basis and in an individual mouth- back upper jaw tends to be the least dense area, while front bottom jaw tends to be the densest.
The rule of thumb is usually 3 to 6 months for osseointegration of an implant (based on animal and human studies).
