TREATMENT
Prosthetics
We replace your lost or damaged teeth according to your conditions
There are many reasons why you sometimes need prosthetic dental care, which includes crowns, bridges, implants, and dentures. For example, a broken tooth, a previously heavily filled tooth, a lost tooth, or in some cases even for aesthetic reasons.
What suits you is something your dentist and you will agree on.
Dental implants
Before the implants can be placed, you will meet a dentist for consultation and examination. It's important to see that you are a suitable candidate and that you are healthy in the rest of your mouth. You also get to tell about your expectations and the dentist goes through your individual conditions. For the treatment to be successful, it's important that you don't have any infections in your mouth. It may therefore take a little extra time if a tooth needs to be root-filled or if healing of an infection must be awaited before treatment can begin.
When the examination and pre-treatments have been done, the implants are to be attached to the jawbone. The dental implants are attached during a surgical procedure. The dentist administers effective local anesthesia and folds back the thin gum to access the jawbone. A hole is drilled and the titanium screws are attached. How many implants are needed depends on the size of the procedure and how many teeth are to be replaced.
After the screws have been attached to the jawbone, a certain rest period is needed for the implants to grow into the bone. How long this takes varies, but often it's about 3-4 months.
When the implants have healed, the dentist takes an impression of the situation in the mouth and a model of how the teeth will look is produced. When you and the dentist are satisfied with the appearance, your new teeth are made.
A dental framework is produced and porcelain is fired onto it in the desired tooth color and shape. When the dentist and you as a patient are satisfied with the construction, the new teeth are put in place. If it's a single tooth to be replaced, the crown is screwed directly onto the implant or cemented onto a abutment. If several teeth are replaced, a bridge is made that is screwed onto the implants.
Crowns and bridges
When treating a crown, your old and damaged tooth is ground down and we make a cast that a dental technician designs your new tooth from. At your next visit, we try the crown on your tooth to finally attach it permanently. The crown material is usually ceramic, which is very durable, and the color is matched to your other existing teeth, which means the crown doesn't look artificial and fits in with your other teeth.
If you have a tooth gap because you're missing one or more teeth, a bridge may be a suitable method to replace them. A bridge can cover several teeth and is made of the same material as a crown. Healthy teeth behind and in front of the tooth gap are used to create attachment and support for the bridge. It's important that there are enough healthy teeth around the tooth gap for it to be replaced with a bridge.
Etched bridge
In some cases, especially suitable in the front of the jaw, a tooth gap can be replaced with a construction called an etched bridge. It's then a tooth that has two attachments to the neighboring teeth that are glued on. These types of constructions are usually long-term temporary and can, for example, be used while waiting for an implant to heal in the jawbone. Alternatively, as a young person, you wait for growth before an implant is relevant.
