The Coningsby Dental Practice

The Coningsby Dental Practice - Best Dental Clinic in Lincoln has great pride in the quality of our dentistry and want to make your visit a pleasant experience. Our aim is to achieve good dental health for you and your family through preventative dentistry. By taking the time to provide you with regular dental advice we can help you understand how to take better care of your teeth. As a long and established practice, we offer NHS, Private and Denplan dentistry for all ages A dental implant is a small screw made of titanium which is placed into the bone to provide a stable platform for the replacement of a missing tooth. Titanium dental implants have been used for over forty years. Implants can replace one or more teeth or hold dentures securely in the mouth. There has been a large amount of research to show that implants work extremely effectively and reliably, and are the best possible replacement for missing teeth with success rates of over 96%. The main component is the titanium implant itself. This looks like a small screw with a roughened surface. The implant is about the same size as the root of a natural tooth. The implant is placed into the bone and left for 4-6 weeks. After this time it is solid in the bone. Once the implant is solid in the bone, the second part, a special titanium post, can be screwed into the implant. This is called the abutment. The abutment is used to hold a crown or bridge to the implant. Implants are the most natural solution to tooth loss, they are both aesthetic and functional. Implants are fixed as securely as natural teeth and can not be distinguished from them. Dental implants help to preserve healthy teeth in comparison with conventional bridges, since the neighboring teeth do not have to be ground into stumps in order to support the new teeth.