Rediscover Your Smile with Dental Implants
Losing a tooth can do more than leave a visible gap—it can impact your confidence, the way you speak, and your enjoyment of everyday meals. While dentures and removable bridges have long been used to address tooth loss, they often come with limitations in comfort, stability, and long-term effectiveness.
Dental implants offer a modern, long-lasting alternative that looks, feels, and functions like your natural teeth. They not only restore your smile but also help preserve jawbone health, protect surrounding teeth, and support your overall oral well-being—giving you the freedom to eat, speak, and smile with complete confidence.
Tooth loss can significantly affect both dental health and quality of life. Traditional options like dentures and bridges have helped many over the years, but they don’t always offer the durability or comfort that patients need. Today, dental implants are widely regarded as the gold standard for tooth replacement, providing unmatched stability and a natural appearance.
What Are Dental Implants?
A dental implant is a two-part device that permanently replaces both the visible part of the tooth and the root structures beneath the gum line. During an easy, minor surgical procedure, a biocompatible titanium post is placed into the bone of the jaw to replace the tooth’s root, and a replacement artificial tooth is secured to its surface inside the mouth. The post will integrate with area bone over time and remains securely fixed for the patient’s lifetime. A custom-designed artificial tooth, also called a crown, is attached to the screw above the gum line.
At the forefront of implant restoration, Dr. Marc Lazare, D.D.S., M.A.G.D., is a leading restorative and cosmetic dentist in New York City. He collaborates closely with oral surgeons and periodontists to ensure a smooth, coordinated process—from the surgical placement of implants to the final restoration. Dr. Lazare specializes in designing and placing lifelike crowns, bridges, or implant-supported prosthetics, tailored to each patient's smile.
What sets dental implants apart is their ability to integrate with the jawbone, preventing bone loss and maintaining facial structure. They function just like natural teeth and reinforce the strength and alignment of the entire bite. For those seeking a permanent, reliable solution to tooth loss, implants offer both aesthetic and functional benefits that significantly enhance quality of life.
Implants are often indistinguishable from natural teeth, except when seen on dental x-rays. They feel and function like normal teeth. The color, shape, and size of each new tooth will be crafted to match the surrounding teeth. Dental implants can provide patients with a more beautiful smile, replacing missing teeth, unhealthy teeth, or teeth that do not match the set due to imperfections in their size, shape, or color. Implants are highly customizable, so individual results may vary.
An implant can support a single crown, a fixed bridge, or overlying implant-supported dentures. Practitioners and patients alike see dental implants as a superior treatment option over other types of tooth replacement in most cases, especially when only a single tooth is missing.
A fixed dental bridge will also stabilize the area of a single missing tooth, but this procedure requires the teeth on either side of the treatment site to have some surrounding tooth structure ground down to allow room for the materials of the three-unit crown fixture to be placed. Implant-supported dentures combine a permanent fixture with removable dentures for cases where multiple dental implants are not feasible.
Subperiosteal Implants
Rather than being screwed into the jawbone, a subperiosteal implant consists of a metal frame that is situated below the gum tissue, resting over the jawbone. As the gums heal, they fix the frame in place, so it is secured to the jawbone. The frame contains one or more posts so the artificial teeth can be mounted. Each post rises above the gum line so the new teeth can be attached. This technique is not as popular or common as endosteal implants.
Approved Types of Dental Implants Available
Endosteal implant surgery is the more popular two-part implant procedure.
Endosteal Implants
Endosteal implant surgery is the more popular two-part implant procedure, during which the surgical screw, cylinder, or post is first implanted into the patient’s jawbone. After adequate healing of the surrounding bone and soft tissues, the tooth is secured to the post.
A single crown can be fixed into place, or multiple artificial teeth in the form of a bridge or denture can be connected to the post.
Subperiosteal implant consists of a metal frame that is situated below the gum tissue.
According to an article in the 2015 National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery, the immediate placement of a single tooth following extraction is best suited for teeth lost due to trauma, fracture, root canal failure, and root absorption caused by residual baby teeth. Some dental professionals believe that bone growth is especially apt to occur following tooth removal. The implant may require between two and six months for the addition of a crown due to the initial lack of contact between the bone and implant.
Same-Day Dental Implants
In many cases, patients undergo dental implant surgery following tooth extraction. Typically, dental surgeons will delay implant placement for approximately four to six months following the removal, allowing the socket to heal. Experts have studied this practice for over a decade, however, and find that in select cases, it is more advantageous to place an implant directly following the extraction.
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