Immediate Dental Implants
The Modern Approach
The traditional staged approach in the diagram above could take up to a year or more for a final tooth/crown to be placed, and require 2 separate surgeries. The first surgery to remove the tooth and bone graft and the second surgery to place the implant. Luckily, with advances in technique and implant technology, this time can be shortened by placing the implant immediately at the time of extraction of the tooth. Greater than 75% percent of patients are candidates for immediate implant placement. There is no difference in success, healing, or pain if you are a candidate and most patients choose this route.
In my first experience with Dr. Khan, I must say I am quite pleased. I needed to have a dental implant. This was my second one, but the first with Dr. Khan. He did the procedure using a two-step process vs. my previous three-step process. The extraction, placement of the implant and recovery have gone extremely well. My time from extraction will be cut from a year and a half to about six months. Dr. Khan and staff are excellent.
Stephen L.
Replacing a Non-Restorable Tooth
Extraction & Immediate Implant | Extraction & Delayed Implant |
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1st Surgery with IV Sedation
| 1st Surgery with IV Sedation
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After 6 Months or Less 2nd Surgery with Local (Numbing)
| After 6 Months
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After 2 Additional Weeks
| 2nd Surgery with IV Sedation
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After 5 Months
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Total Treatment Length 6½ Months | Total Treatment Length 12 Months |
With even further advances, it is now possible in certain cases to remove the tooth, place the implant, and place a temporary screwed in tooth all within a 24 hour period. These cases are reserved for the anterior teeth in the aesthetic zone that show and avoid having to have a temporary “flipper” in the healing period.