Dental Implants – Renton, WA

What are Dental Implants?

Dental implants themselves are small titanium posts that are surgically placed below the gumline and into the jawbone. As the gums are healing, the implants will undergo a natural process, called osseointegration, where they’ll fuse with the bone and create a strong and stable foundation for the prosthetics to be attached to. Due to this integration, dental implants can replace the entire structure of missing teeth, including the roots, which are incredibly important to the stability and strength of your replacement teeth.

The 4-Step Dental Implant Process

1. The Initial Consultation: Less than 10 miles away from our Renton dental office is our Kent dental office, which handles dental implant cases. There, they can capture important diagnostic imaging and collect your medical and dental health information to craft a customized dental implant treatment plan to restore your smile.
2. Dental Implant Surgery: Once you decide to move forward with treatment, our team will schedule your dental implant placement. During your surgery, they’ll make small incisions into the gumline to secure your dental implants into the jawbone.
3. Osseointegration & Abutment Placement: As your gums are healing, a process called osseointegration will also be taking place, which is the fusion of your implants with your jawbone. Once this is complete, we’ll call you back in to secure small metal connector pieces to the tops of your dental implants, called abutments.
4. Attaching the Permanent Restorations: When we receive your final permanent restorations from our lab, we’ll secure them to the implants and complete your smile.

Benefits of Dental Implants

Several benefits distinguish dental implants from other traditional tooth replacement treatments, including:

• Natural-looking and feeling replacement teeth
• Restore up to 80% of your bite power
• Enjoy your new teeth for up to 35 years with the proper care
• Easy to maintain
• Eat all of your favorite foods with ease
• Speak without worrying about slipping or shifting prosthetics
• Enjoy improved oral health

Who Dental Implants Can Help

Not all patients are good candidates for dental implants in Renton right away. In fact, many need preparatory procedures before being able to move forward with scheduling their surgery, including gum disease therapy, bone grafts, and more. It’s important to start with a healthy foundation before beginning the process because it will ensure the success of your implant prosthetics. During the treatment planning stages of your journey, we’ll walk you through each step, including how we plan to address your unique tooth loss case.

Missing One Tooth

For a single missing tooth, we can secure one dental implant below the gumline. Once it has fused with the jawbone and your gums have healed, we’ll be able to attach an abutment atop the implant that will secure a dental crown to fill the gap in your arch.

Missing Multiple Teeth

If you’re missing two or more consecutive teeth, instead of anchoring a prosthetic to your existing healthy teeth, we can secure it using two dental implants. These will be placed at either side of the gap in your smile to hold a dental bridge and complete your arch.

Missing All of Your Teeth

If you’re missing several teeth or an entire arch, we can also attach a full or partial denture to anywhere between two and six implants placed below the gumline. The added security and stability of the implants will eliminate slipping and shifting, making basic tasks like eating and speaking much easier.

Understanding the Cost of Dental Implants

Every dental implant treatment that we do is custom-tailored to meet each of our patient’s unique needs. Because of this, there’s no single price tag attached to this treatment. During your initial consultation, we’ll be able to determine important cost-affecting details of your journey, like how many teeth you’ll need to have replaced (including how many implants will need to be placed) and whether you’ll require preparatory treatments. These will all inform the detailed cost estimate that we’ll walk you through before you move forward with scheduling your surgery.