If you need a crown, bridge, permanent dentures or a previous dental device has broken and needs mending, there is a good chance that your dentist will give you implants. When in Westland, it is called Westland implants.

Implants can be adapted to serve a variety of functions. They actually serve as a substitute for a tooth root, and do almost as good a job. An implant will have a protruding piece of metal that grabs on to the jaw bone and stays there. The bone is then left to grow. As it does so, it covers the root of the tooth in the same way it would do to the root of a natural tooth. You therefore have a very strong implant securely fixed to your jaw. In addition, the implant helps to prevent erosion of the jaw bones The bone in your jaw will benefit from the implant and continue as a healthy part of your body.

Your Westland implants dentist is probably likely to perform a bone graft so that the implant will be securely fixed on to the jaw. If all dentists can do this, that would be fine. But the fact is, many do not have these skills. Because of that, they will provide all your details to a specialist. Only after you've gone to the specialist can you get your bone graft and implant finished. Then you return to your general dentist, whose task is to finish the treatment with your crown, bridge or dentures. It is best, however, if your general dentist has the skills to perform the work of the specialist. A Westland implants dentist knows everything there is about implants and anything else. This arrangement allows you to have just one point of contact. Also, all your information is with one dentist, reducing the risk of important details getting lost. If there are two dentists working on one procedure then you don't know if they are talking to each other properly.

When it comes to giving you a crown, bridge or dentures, which includes first putting in an implant, it can take as many as four visits. When you make your first visit, the dentist will put in the implant. The dentist will then call you for a second visit in order to remove the stitches he had given you from when he put in the implant. The next trip to the clinic is so the dentist can create a mold so your dental device, whether it is a crown, bridge or denture, can be made. And last of all, the crown, bridge or dentures are put in on the fourth and final visit.