Dental Implants
“Your aesthetic gap closure while protecting your healthy adjacent teeth!
Of course it is our goal to maintain your natural teeth, however age, illness or accidental loss of individual or several teeth can lead to a significant loss of your quality of life. Due to modern dentistry, lost teeth can in now-a-days reliably be replaced with dental implants, ie artificial tooth roots from pure titanium.
This material does not cause foreign body reaction. Both from an aesthetic and functional perspective implants currently provide the best solution for artificial dentures after tooth loss while sparing out your healthy adjacent teeth.
Course of treatment
Thus, a
dental implant can take the later prosthesis optimally, it must be considered three-dimensionally and be accurately positioned. The better surgery, implantology and prosthetics interact, the more convincing is the result.
Dental implants are painlessly implanted under local or general anesthesia into a pre-drilled hole in the jaw bone and firmly anchor with the jawbone. Depending on the case, the healing takes about 6 months in the upper jaw and about 3 months in the lower jaw. Once fitted, implants are able to support a range of different restorations, including crowns, dental bridges and dentures.
“Teeth on implants provide a natural feeling!”
Single crowns, fixed bridges or removable dentures get a solid grip with dental implants. The typical slipping and sliding of dentures, especially on the lower edentulous jaw which can make chewing and speaking a difficult and potentially embarrassing chore disappears.
“Implants improve your chewing function and give you your quality of life and confidence back.”
Our modern treatment methods are gentle and soft, reduce your time expenses and your psychological stress to a minimum.
Image: Replacement of missing posterior teeth with an implant-supported, metal-free ceramic bridge
Bone grafting and sinus lift - Dentist in Lucerne
Being edentulous for many years mostly causes bone loss (atrophy of the bone). In order to fix the implant in the jaw bone it is necessary to rebuild this lost bone by bone augmentation (augmentation). If sufficient bone for an implant in the maxillary lateral area is missing, bone is built up using a sinus lift.
When do dental implants make sense?
- for single tooth gaps to prevent the grinding of healthy adjacent teeth
- in case of missing teeth in the posterior region to prevent removable prostheses
- in the edentulous jaw to provide a stable support for the denture
Dental implants at any age?
If the patient is in good health, dental implants can be used until the old age. The bone growth must be completed because an implant is only placed into a mature jaw bone. Upwards there is no age limit.
“We only use high-quality implant systems from reputable implant companies that are scientifically tested and proven over many years.”
Stability and security
Whether dental implants are right for you, is Influenced by various factors, i.a. tobacco use and systemic diseases such as diabetes. Your oral hygiene plays a very important role, because it has a direct impact on the health of your gums. Gumdiseases (Parodontitis) can lead to bone loss and make a bone augmentation necessary.
“In up to 98% your implant can last a lifetime, through your six-monthly participation in our prophylaxis program!”
Through good oral hygiene and regular prophylaxis momentous inflammation of the implant bed (periimplantits) can successfully be avoided.
We at
ZZL – your
Dental Health Center Lucerne are specialized to integrate dental implants and dentures with the utmost perfection into existing or missing teeth areas. Yet, preserving your own teeth always has priority. If for various reasons this is not possible, we draw from all the advantages of modern implantology, so that you get your natural smile back.
We perform a careful individual diagnosis and planning with a subsequent detailed discussion and cost information!
Call us at 041 210 77 10, because we take our time for you and advise you with pleasure!
Implant Brochure
Treatment possibilities of a single missing tooth |
Single implant while sparing the healthy neighboring teeth |
Bridge with preparation of the adjacent teeth |
Marylandbridge with adhesive bonding to the adjacent teeth |
Fixed implant bridge with two implants |
Fixed implant crowns with 3 implants |
Combined fixed-removable prosthesis attachment |
Removable metal-supported denture prosthesis |
Restoration of the edentulous maxilla |
Fixed bridges on 6 implants as an alternative to a removable complete denture |
Restoration of the edentulous mandible |
Fixed, bar-retained denture on 4 implants |
Fixed, telescopic prosthesis supported on 4 implants |
Removable denture |