GUIDES
What we have written about tooth loss and implants
We take the questions patients ask most, one at a time. Each guide exists to make one decision easier.
Tooth Extraction and Aftercare
- Bleeding After a Tooth Extraction: What Is Normal?Pink saliva is normal; bleeding that fills your mouth is not. Stopping it at home, what a blood thinner changes, and the signs that mean A&E.
- The First 3 Days After a Tooth ExtractionProtecting the blood clot: gauze, food, rinsing, brushing, smoking, exercise, wudu and prayer. What normal healing looks like and when to see your dentist.
- Impacted Wisdom Tooth: Should It Come Out, and When?An impacted wisdom tooth causing no problems is usually monitored. What calls for removal, what nerve proximity on an X-ray means, coronectomy and aftercare.
- Dry Socket: Pain That Worsens Days After ExtractionPain that worsens 2–3 days after an extraction and spreads to the ear may be dry socket. How to recognise it, how it differs from infection, what is done.
- Pericoronitis: Wisdom Tooth Gum Inflammation and TreatmentWhy the gum flap over a partly erupted wisdom tooth gets inflamed, when it is an emergency, when antibiotics are needed and when extraction is discussed.
Save or Extract
- Apexification: Can a Dead Immature Tooth Be Saved?If a young tooth's nerve dies before its root is formed, MTA apexification or regenerative treatment is done. Differences, sessions, success, colour, follow-up.
- Apicoectomy: Root-End Surgery, Success Rates and RisksWho an apicoectomy (root-end surgery) is for, how it is done, success at 1, 5 and 10 years, how it compares with retreatment and implants, healing and risks.
- Failed Root Canal Treatment: What Are Your Options?Why root canal treatment fails, whether the tooth can still be saved, and when extraction and an implant come in. Three options and how to decide.
- Save the Tooth, or Extract It and Have an Implant?Save the tooth, or extract it for an implant? The six criteria behind the decision, savable versus worth saving, and the cost of putting it off.
- How Long Should You Wait for an Implant After an Extraction?In the same session, a few weeks later or months later. The three timings, when each one is chosen and what waiting does to the bone.
- Knocked Out Tooth: What to Do in the First MinutesIf a tooth comes out completely, minutes decide: how to hold it, keep it in milk and put it back, and what to do about breaks, looseness and colour change.
- Tooth Decay: Stages, Symptoms and TreatmentDecay starts as a white spot and hurts once it reaches the nerve. When fluoride is enough, when a filling, root canal or extraction is needed; child vs adult.
- Do Teeth Repair Themselves? Can Decay Reverse?Enamel does not grow back, but an early lesion can be stopped. Where remineralisation stops, how bone differs, and where tooth regrowth research stands.
- My Gum Disease Has Advanced: Will I Lose My Teeth?Gingivitis versus periodontitis, how pocket depth and bone loss decide which teeth stay, where treatment halts the disease, and planning implants.
- Inlays and Onlays: Between a Filling and a CrownWhen is an inlay, onlay or overlay chosen instead of a filling or a crown? Ceramic vs composite, 5- and 10-year results from research, and the risks.
- Can a Root-Filled Tooth Make You Ill? The EvidenceCan a root-filled tooth cause heart disease, cancer or rheumatism? The origins of the focal infection theory, what studies found and where the real risk lies.
- Root Canal Retreatment: When and How Successful Is It?Why root canal treatment is redone, how it is done, its success rate, and how it compares with root-end surgery or extraction. Key findings and questions.
- My Tooth Has Broken: Can It Still Be Saved?Where it breaks decides the outcome: enamel breaks take a filling, breaks below the gum or vertical root fractures mean extraction. Keeping the broken piece.
- Root Perforation During Root Canal TreatmentWas the root perforated during root canal treatment? Why perforations happen, success of MTA repair, the factors that decide the outcome and when to extract.
- Decay Under a Bridge or a Loose Bridge: What Can Be Done?A loose or smelly bridge usually means the supporting tooth: worn cement, decay under the crown or bone loss. How to tell them apart, and the options.
- Pulp Capping: Avoiding Root Canal Treatment in Deep DecayWhat direct and indirect pulp capping are, and whether they can prevent root canal treatment in deep decay. Success rates, MTA vs calcium hydroxide, limits.
- Post and Core After Root Canal: Fibre Posts, Post CrownsA post does not strengthen the tooth; it holds the core. Fibre vs cast posts, why the ferrule is decisive, root fracture risk and when extraction comes up.
- My Tooth Is Loose: Can It Be Saved or Must It Come Out?Why a tooth becomes loose, when it can be saved, what splinting and gum treatment do, and when extraction is right. The criteria and your options.
- Told All Your Teeth Need to Come Out: What Happens Now?The questions to ask after hearing these words, how to tell whether the decision is really right, and how your mouth should be planned after the extractions.
The Ihde Method
- What Is a Basal Implant? From Disc (BOI) Implants to TodayWhat is a basal implant, and what do disc implant and BOI mean? The move from side-placed discs to screw-type corticobasal implants, and what each term means.
- The Ihde Method: How to Read Patient ReviewsWhy what you read online about this method is so polarised. How to weigh reviews, what patients genuinely find hard, and where the professional debate stands.
- What Is Ihde Dental? The Company, Products and FoundationWho owns Ihde Dental and what does it make? The Swiss firm's history, its KOS, BCS and TPG uno families, and its link to the International Implant Foundation.
- What Affects the Cost of Ihde Implants?This protocol's cost is made of different items: bone grafting is not needed in most cases, but more implants are placed. An item-by-item comparison.
- Which Country Are Ihde Implants From?Ihde implants come from a Swiss-based company. But origin alone says little: look at certification, long-term spare parts supply and the dentist placing them.
- What Is an Ihde Implant?Is an Ihde implant a brand or a method? What corticobasal placement, one-piece design and immediate loading mean, and how it differs from conventional implants.
- How Long Do Ihde Implants Last? Basal Implant LifespanHow many years does a basal implant last? What the longest published follow-up data say, what is still unknown, and why implant and bridge lifespans differ.
- Ihde Implant Risks and Basal Implant Side EffectsNerve, sinus, implant bending and fracture, mucositis and early loading: basal implant side effects, the figures studies measured and where the evidence stands.
- Who Can Perform the Ihde Method?Not every dentist can perform this protocol. Why only a few clinics offer it, what the certificate means, and how to tell whether a clinic is competent.
- Ihde Method vs Conventional Implants: The DifferenceThe two approaches point by point: where anchorage comes from, implant design, loading time, bone needs, treatment time and the body of evidence.
Implant Brands
- Which Country Are Adin Implants From, and Who Owns Adin?Adin is manufactured in Afula, Israel, and describes itself as an independent manufacturer. The Touareg, UniFit and CloseFit lines and what the studies say.
- Alpha-Bio Implants: Which Country, and Who Owns Them?Alpha-Bio Tec is Israeli, bought by Nobel Biocare in 2008 and owned by Envista today. How it differs from Nobel, its lines, its data and your implant card.
- Ankylos Implants: Which Country, and Who Owns Them?Ankylos was designed in Munich in 1985 and is owned by Dentsply Sirona today. Its conical connection, platform switching, 17 years of data and Astra Tech.
- Which Country Are Anthogyr Implants From? Who Owns It?Anthogyr is French, based in Sallanches; wholly owned by the Straumann Group since 2019. The Axiom line, the studies behind it and what to ask before the brand.
- Where Are Astra Tech Implants From, and Who Owns Them?Astra Tech comes from Mölndal, Sweden, and has been Dentsply's since 2011. Its origin, owner, EV and TX generations, and what to check on your implant card.
- Where Are BEGO Implants Made? The German Semados SystemBEGO is a German family firm founded in Bremen in 1890, and its implant system is called Semados. Its origin, its lines and what to check on your implant card.
- Which Country Are BioHorizons Implants From? Laser-LokBioHorizons is a US brand founded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1994, now part of Henry Schein. What Laser-Lok is, the independent evidence and your implant card.
- Bredent Implants: Which Country? SKY and copaSKYBredent is a German family company based in Senden, Bavaria, since 1974. SKY, copaSKY, the fast & fixed concept, short implants and the data behind them.
- Where Are Dentium Implants From? SuperLine and ImplantiumDentium was founded in South Korea in 2000 by a dentist. The SuperLine, Implantium and bright lines, how their connections differ and what your card should say.
- Which Country Are DIO Implants From, and Who Owns DIO?DIO was founded in Busan in 1988 and began making implants in 2002. Ownership, the UF(II) and DIOnavi lines, independent data and your implant card.
- Implance Implants: Which Country, and Whose Brand?Implance is a Turkish implant brand made by AGS Medikal in Besikduzu, Trabzon. Its FDA record, implant types, published studies and what to ask first.
- Dental Implant Brands Comparison TableBrands fall into four groups: established global systems, affordable lines in the same groups, Turkish-made and little-known. Origin, strengths, limits, fit.
- Which Country Is Medentika From? Its Link to StraumannMedentika is a German company in the Straumann Group. Its own implants, top parts compatible with other brands, and the original versus compatible evidence.
- Where Are MegaGen Implants Made? AnyOne and AnyRidgeMegaGen was founded in South Korea in 2002; its head office and factory are in Daegu. AnyOne, AnyRidge, ARi, the failed Straumann deal and your implant card.
- MIS Implants: Which Country, and Who Owns Them?MIS is an Israeli implant brand, owned by Dentsply Sirona since 2016. The C1, V3, Seven and Lance lines, how well studied they are and what to ask first.
- Neodent Implants: Which Country, and Are They Good?Neodent is Brazilian and part of the Swiss Straumann Group since 2012. Where it comes from and is made, the data behind it, and what to ask before the brand.
- Where Is Nobel Biocare From? Swedish Roots, Swiss BaseNobel Biocare began in Gothenburg in 1981 with Brånemark and Bofors; it is now Swiss-based and owned by US firm Envista. Its lines and what to put on your card.
- Is Nucleoss a Turkish Implant Brand, and How Good Is It?Nucleoss is a Turkish implant brand made in Turkey. The real advantage of local production, its real limit, and the documents to look at before the brand name.
- Where Are Osstem Implants From? South Korea and HiossenOsstem was founded in South Korea in 1997, and Hiossen is its US company. The TS, KS, SS and MS lines, the 2023 ownership change and what your card should say.
- Where Are SIN Implants From? Brazil and Henry ScheinSIN Implant System was founded in São Paulo in 2003 and has been owned by US firm Henry Schein since 2023. Epikut, Unitite, Strong SW, warranty and your card.
- Straumann Implants: Which Country and Why So Expensive?Straumann is Swiss and one of the most widely published implant systems. Where its price difference comes from, what it buys and what it does not.
- Should Your Implant Be Turkish-Made or Imported?Country of origin alone is no measure of quality. Four criteria that separate Turkish-made and imported systems: certification, continuity, location, records.
- Where Are Zimmer Implants From? Biomet 3i and ZimVieZimmer and Biomet 3i implants have sat with a separate firm, ZimVie, since 2022; ZimVie passed to ARCHIMED in 2025. Origin, lines and what your card should say.
Implants and Your Health
- Does Gum Disease Affect the Heart? What the Evidence SaysGum disease, heart attack and stroke: association or cause? When heart patients need antibiotics, and what is checked before implants.
- Tooth Extraction on Bisphosphonates: The Jawbone RiskExtractions and implants while on osteoporosis or cancer bone drugs: who is at higher risk of jaw osteonecrosis, and does pausing the medicine help?
- Kidney Failure and Dialysis: Can You Have Implants?How timing around your dialysis days, blood thinners and bleeding risk, post-transplant immunosuppression and coordination with your nephrology team all work.
- Teeth Grinding (Bruxism) and ImplantsGrinding at night is an implant's quietest enemy. How to tell whether you do it, how the plan changes, and how much a night guard really helps.
- Fear of the Dentist and Implants Under SedationFor anyone who has avoided the dentist for years: where the fear comes from, the sedation options, and how sedation differs from being put to sleep.
- Diabetes and Implants: Can You Have Them?Diabetes is not a barrier to implants; what decides it is whether your blood sugar is controlled. Preparing for the day, how healing differs, long-term care.
- Implants and Extractions in Pregnancy and BreastfeedingUrgent dental care is safe at every stage of pregnancy; planned work such as implants usually waits until after birth and breastfeeding. With sources.
- Implants in Later Life: Am I Too Old for Implants?There is no upper age limit for implants. Bone, general health and your medicines decide, not age. Why fixed teeth make a difference later in life.
- Are Implants Harmful? Titanium Allergy, MRI and CancerTitanium allergy, MRI, cancer and heart questions: which have a real basis and which are myths. The genuine risks of surgery, with sources.
- I Take Blood Thinners: Can I Have Implants?Aspirin, clopidogrel, warfarin and newer anticoagulants do not rule out implants. Whether to stop a medicine is for the prescribing doctor, not the dentist.
- Dental Implants After Chemotherapy or RadiotherapyHow chemotherapy and radiotherapy affect the implant decision differently, why blood counts are checked, and how your oncology team and dentist decide together.
- Who Cannot Have Implants? The Real BarriersReal barriers are few: incomplete jaw growth, strong bone medication, uncontrolled bleeding, active inflammation. Diabetes, smoking and age are not barriers.
- Can You Have Dental Implants While Taking Steroids?Implants for people on long-term steroids: bone and wound healing, infection, adrenal suppression, the steroid card and what to ask your doctor.
- I Take Osteoporosis Medication: Can I Have Implants?How bisphosphonates and denosumab affect the jawbone, tablets versus infusion into a vein, and what a strategic implant means in this situation.
- Parkinson's: Dental Implants and DenturesWhy dentures do not stay put in Parkinson's, what an implant-supported prosthesis offers, planning around medicine times, and what carers should watch for.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis: Can I Have Dental Implants?How steroids, methotrexate and biologic medicines affect the implant decision, why Sjögren's syndrome and hand dexterity matter, and what to tell your dentist.
- I Smoke: Can I Have Implants?How smoking affects healing and implant anchorage, the window for stopping before and after surgery, the risk of peri-implantitis, and e-cigarettes and shisha.
- Heart Disease, Blood Pressure Medication and ImplantsHow blood pressure and heart medicines affect implants: adrenaline in the anaesthetic, gum overgrowth, antibiotics with a heart valve, timing after a stent.
- Thyroid Disease: Can You Have Dental Implants?Implants with hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, levothyroxine and after radioactive iodine: what the evidence says, which tests are needed, what to ask.
Compare Your Options
- All-on-4 vs Strategic Implants: What Is the Difference?All-on-4 puts a fixed bridge on four implants in spongy bone. A strategic implant locks into the hard outer layer. How they differ and how to decide.
- All-on-6 vs All-on-4: The Difference and Who It SuitsAll-on-6 fixes a bridge to six implants in one jaw. How it differs from a four-implant plan, the bone it needs at the back, and how to decide.
- No Teeth Left in My Lower Jaw: Why Won't My Denture Stay In?A full lower denture that will not stay in is anatomy, not your fault. Why a denture holds in the upper jaw but not the lower, and the lower-jaw options.
- A Palate Denture or Fixed Teeth on Implants?A denture covering the palate affects taste, speech and gagging, and moves more each year as bone shrinks. With fixed teeth the palate stays uncovered.
- What Is a Temporary Bridge, and How Long Does It Last?What a temporary bridge does while the real one is made, how long it is worn, how to look after it and what sets its scope. Plus the three-day difference.
- What Is a Precision-Attachment Denture?A removable denture with no visible clasps: how it stays in, why it is mistaken for fixed teeth, what it does to your own teeth, how long attachments last.
- Types of Dental Implants: Titanium or Zirconia?Implants differ by material, number of pieces, size and the bone they anchor in. Titanium versus zirconia, one-piece versus two-piece, and what research says.
- Choosing Implant Teeth Shade: A1, A2 or BL1?How to choose the shade of teeth on implants: the VITA guide, the risk of very white, matching age and skin, light, pink porcelain and colour in zirconia.
- Teeth on Implants: Acrylic, Zirconia or Porcelain?Teeth on implants are acrylic, porcelain fused to metal, zirconia or glass ceramic. How they differ for single teeth and bridges, how they wear, how to choose.
- A Bridge on Implants or a Removable Denture?Both sit on implants, but one does not come out and the other does. Number of implants, the palate, cleaning, maintenance and cost: a point-by-point comparison.
- Can You Have Fixed Teeth Without Implants?If your own teeth remain, yes, with a bridge. If no teeth are left to support one, no, and that should be said plainly. Which applies to you.
- Can I Have a Bridge on My Own Teeth?A bridge uses two sound teeth as supports. When it is possible, what happens to those teeth, how long it lasts and its real cost against an implant.
- Short Implants: An Alternative to a Sinus Lift or Graft?How many mm is a short implant, how long does it last and when is it chosen over a sinus lift or bone graft? 10-year studies, crown ratio, what to watch.
- Maryland (Resin-Bonded) Bridge: What It Is and Who It SuitsA bridge bonded to a neighbouring tooth by a wing: one wing or two, who it suits, what if it comes off, long-term results, and how it compares with an implant.
- Mini Implants: Who Are They For, and What Are Their Limits?A mini implant is a one-piece implant under 3 mm wide. It does well holding a lower denture; in the upper jaw losses rise markedly. Evidence and limits.
- The Real Cost Over Ten Years: Dentures, Bridges, ImplantsThe first payment does not rank the three options correctly. Add replacement, relining, repairs and lost bone and the picture changes. Do the sums yourself.
- What Is Full-Mouth Rehabilitation, and Who Is It For?Full-mouth rehabilitation: who needs it, its stages, implant and denture options, and why the timeline differs so much on the conventional route and in 3 days.
- Single-Tooth Implant or Full-Mouth Solution?The number of missing teeth does not decide; the state of the remaining teeth does. When a single implant is right, and what piecemeal treatment costs.
- What Are Zygomatic Implants, and Who Are They For?How zygomatic implants help with severe bone loss in the upper jaw, how they compare with a sinus lift and graft-free placement, and what the evidence shows.
- Zirconia Bridge or Implant? What Decides ItA bridge files down two healthy teeth for good and does not load the bone; an implant preserves it. When a bridge is still right, and where its limit lies.
Something Is Wrong With My Implant
- Bone Loss Around an Implant: Is It Normal?The line between bone change in early healing and inflammation around an implant: the 2017 definitions, comparing X-rays, when it is urgent, treatment.
- Broken Implant: Is It the Screw, Abutment or Crown?Is it the implant itself, its screw or its abutment that has broken? How often it happens, the signs, how a broken part is removed, re-implanting, prevention.
- Implant Metal Showing: A Grey Shadow in the GumImplant metal or a grey shadow in the gum: thin gum, recession or inflammation? Which cannot wait, what the dentist checks, and graft and crown options.
- My Implant Feels Loose: What Does It Mean?Is it the implant, the tooth on top or the screw that moves? They mean different things and differ in urgency. How to tell them apart and what not to do.
- Numbness After Dental Implants: When to WorryNumbness in the first hours is the anaesthetic. Numbness in the lip or chin that lasts into the next day can signal the implant sits close to the nerve.
- My Implant Has Failed: Why, and What Happens Next?Implant loss comes early or late, with different causes. Why it happens, what having the implant removed is like, and whether the area can take a new one.
- Bad Smell or Taste From an Implant: Why Does It Happen?A bad smell or taste from an implant: build-up under the bridge, the screw hole, inflammation around the implant. Safe checks at home, when to see a dentist.
- Inflammation Around an Implant (Peri-implantitis)Inflammation around an implant causes bone loss without pain. The first signs, the reversible stage versus the one that is not, treatment and prevention.
- Screw Loosening and Breakage in Fixed Implant BridgesWhy the screw in an implant bridge comes loose, what it means if it keeps happening, how a broken screw is removed and what not to do in the meantime.
The Process
- How Does It Happen in 72 Hours? Day-by-Day Treatment ProcessThree days, 72 hours: surgery and the first try-in, the second day when the bite is settled, and the third day when the final teeth are fixed.
- Implant on the Day of Extraction: When Is It Suitable?Can an implant go in at the same session as the extraction? Infected sockets, the gap between implant and bone, the risk of gum recession and the evidence.
- Flapless (Stitch-Free) Implants: Who Suits Them, What Risks?With flapless implants the gum is not opened and the bone is not seen. Less pain, shorter surgery, similar survival; deviation risk and why a guide matters.
- How Do You Look After Teeth on Implants?Why cleaning under a fixed bridge differs from natural teeth, how to use an interdental brush and water flosser, and the sign that reveals peri-implantitis.
- Do Dental Implants Hurt? What You Actually FeelWhat you feel under anaesthetic during implant surgery, how swelling and tenderness progress over 48 hours, and how to tell normal healing from a problem.
- How Are Dental Implants Done? What Happens, Stage by StageThe stages from examination to fitted tooth: preparing the site, placing the implant, healing cap, impression and bite adjustment. Why stages vary.
- How Long Does a Dental Implant Last, and Why?The implant and the bridgework on it do not last equally long. What determines lifespan, peri-implantitis, daily care, and what is done if a problem appears.
- Why a CBCT Scan Before Dental Implants?A panoramic X-ray only shows bone height. We explain what a CBCT scan shows instead, its radiation dose, and what to do if you are pregnant or have an old scan.
- What to Eat After Dental Implants? Day-by-Day NutritionWhat to eat in the first day, week and month after implants: hot, hard, sticky and seeded foods, smoking and alcohol, and chewing with new fixed teeth.
- Stitches After Dental Implants: Dissolving and RemovalHow many days implant stitches take to dissolve, when non-dissolvable ones are removed, what it means if they come apart or you see white tissue, and cleaning.
- The First Week After Dental Implants, Day by DayThe first 24 hours, days two and three, then four to seven: swelling and bruising, ice, sleeping position, medicines, rinsing, and returning to work and sport.
- Bruising After Dental Implants: How Long Does It Last?How much facial bruising is normal after implants or an extraction, how long it takes to fade, what blood thinners change and when swelling means 112.
- Swelling After Dental Implants: How Long It LastsSwelling peaks at the end of day 2 and eases from day 3. How bruising progresses, what reduces swelling, and the signs that point to infection.
Making the Decision
- My Dentist Wants to Take the Tooth Out: Second OpinionWhen extraction or extensive treatment is recommended, a second opinion is your right. When you need one, what to bring, what to ask and when not to wait.
- What Affects the Cost of Dental Implants?Why implant prices vary between clinics, why a single figure misleads, and which items to check are included in a quote. What goes into the price.
- What Does an Implant Guarantee Cover?What does a 'lifetime guarantee' mean, what does it not cover and under what conditions does it apply? Six questions to ask of a guarantee document.
- Does the Implant Brand Matter?Where the brand really matters: titanium, surface treatment, connection design, and what decides it: whether spare parts can still be found years later.
- Preparing for Implant Surgery: A ChecklistWith an appointment booked: what to do weeks before, the day before and that morning. Medicines, smoking, food, a companion, and what you need at home.
- Regretting Dental Implants: The Most Common ReasonsMost regret comes from the decision, not the implant: mismatched expectations, underestimated care, rushed scope decisions and risks never discussed.
- How Many Implants Do You Need for a Full Mouth?The number of implants is set not by a price list but by the jaw, bone density, bridge length and the load from the opposing jaw. How the number is decided.
- How Do You Plan Payment for Implant Treatment?Budget is a real constraint. Splitting treatment into stages, discussing the materials, spreading the payments, and the two items that should never be cut.
- Does SGK Cover Dental Implants?The short answer: not routinely. But cover is not fixed and there are exceptions. What is covered, where to check, and the position at a private clinic.
- How Long Does Implant Treatment Take?The same question gets very different answers because there are three routes. Days in the clinic, the overall timeline and what really lengthens treatment.
- Are Fixed Teeth in Three Days Really Possible?Fixed teeth in three days: advertising line or clinical result? What shortens the time, what does not, what you are fitted with, and who it does not suit.
- Why Do Cheap Implants End Up Costing More?Not every cheap quote is a bad one. Which low prices are legitimate and which come from cutting scope, how to tell, and six questions to ask.
Not Enough Bone
- Jawbone Loss: What Causes It, and Can It Be Stopped?Jawbone loss progresses with tooth loss, dentures and gum disease. It is often confused with osteoporosis but is a separate process. Causes and how to stop it.
- Can You Have Implants Without a Bone Graft?When a bone graft is really needed and how long it makes you wait. The route with a graft and the route without, compared on time, visits and healing.
- Bone Graft Material: Where Does It Come From?The four sources of bone graft material: your own bone, human, animal and synthetic. When it is needed, how it is placed, known risks and graft-free routes.
- I Was Told I Don't Have Enough Bone: Can I Have Implants?The jawbone's two layers, which one resorbs after an extraction, and how a strategic implant anchors in the hard outer layer. A CBCT scan decides.
- Bone Graft from an Extracted Tooth: Does It Work?Your extracted tooth can be ground and placed in the socket as a graft. What the evidence says, how it is prepared, which teeth are unsuitable and its limits.
- Is a Sinus Lift Essential? When It Is Really NeededHow the sinus cavity at the back of the upper jaw affects implants, what open and closed sinus lifts are, when a sinus lift can be avoided and what decides it.
- Missing Teeth for Years: Can I Have Implants?What decides it is not the years passed but the bone left in your jaw. We explain what the CBCT scan shows and when implants are possible without a bone graft.
Close-up
- Cracked Tooth, Vertical Root Fracture: Why X-rays Miss ThemTooth hurts but the X-ray shows nothing? It could be a crack or a root fracture. How dentists tell, what a CBCT scan misses, and when the tooth is lost.
- Jaw Cysts and Dental Implants: How Long After a Keratocyst?A cyst in your jaw sets the order for implants: pathology, bone filling in, follow-up. Why keratocysts recur, how long healing takes, when implants go in.
- Does Guided Implant Planning Really Change the Result?Intraoral scans, CBCT scans and a surgical guide measurably cut positioning deviation. What this millimetre-level gain means long term is far less clear.
- Are Digital Complete Dentures Better Than Conventional Ones?A scanned complete denture needs fewer appointments, but satisfaction studies find no significant difference between the two methods. Where the evidence stands.
- Gum disease and dementia: what a 10-year study foundIn Japan, 1,396 people were followed for ten years: dementia was more common where gum readings were poor. What the figures say, and where headlines overreach.
- Missing lateral incisor: the three routes comparedCanine substitution, an implant or a resin-bonded bridge for a congenitally missing upper lateral incisor: the long-term figures, and why timing decides.
- Hypodontia and oligodontia: full-mouth rehabilitationFewer than six missing teeth is hypodontia, six or more oligodontia. Why the plan spreads over years, and where the implant falls in the timetable.
- Root canal irrigation and activation: the evidenceThe real cleaning is done by the irrigant, not the file. What ultrasonic, sonic and laser activation change, and what a sodium hypochlorite accident is.
- PRF, PRP and CGF: Does Your Own Blood Heal Bone Faster?PRF, PRP and CGF made from your own blood help soft tissue heal and ease early pain, reviews report. The evidence for faster bone gain is far less settled.
- Tissue Growth Under a Denture: Does It Need Surgery?A fold at the denture edge, redness in the palate and a flabby ridge are different problems. Which needs a denture adjustment, and which needs surgery?
- Tooth Wear at the Gum Line: Abfraction? Need a Filling?A notch at the gum line is usually not decay. Acid, brushing and disputed abfraction: which notches are monitored, which are repaired, why fillings fall out.
- Sinus lift: when does the graft become bone?The graft placed in a sinus lift turns to bone over months. New bone measured at four and at eight months, and the evidence behind claims of speeding it up.
- What is a Toronto prosthesis, how long does it last?A Toronto prosthesis is a fixed full-arch denture of acrylic teeth on a metal framework, screwed to implants. Survival, complications and cleaning.
Living with Dentures
- What Is a Partial Denture? Clasp and Metal Framework TypesA partial denture holds on to your remaining teeth with clasps. The types, its effect on clasp teeth, problems measured in studies and when to discuss implants.
- Does an Upper Denture Need a Palate? Palateless OptionsFull or partial plate? Why an upper denture relies on the palate, when a palateless one stays in, how many implants it takes and why fixed teeth have none.
- Tooth Loss and Sleep Apnoea: Sleep With Dentures In?Tooth loss is linked with sleep apnoea; studies on sleeping with dentures are mixed. What the evidence says, when to get a sleep study, appliances and implants.
- Snap-On Dentures: How Many Implants, and What Upkeep?An implant-retained denture on two implants is the standard in the lower jaw. Locator, ball and bar attachments, insert replacement and fixed teeth compared.
- Gagging with a Denture: Why It Happens, and How It SettlesWhy a denture triggers the gag reflex, the roles of palate coverage and a loose back edge, and what helps at home. When it needs an adjustment, or a new design.
- Broken Denture: What to Do, Can It Be Glued at Home?Why gluing a broken denture at home does harm, whether it needs repair or replacing, and what the break tells us. What to do before your appointment.
- When Should a Denture Be Replaced? Relining or New Denture?How many years a denture lasts, what relining is and how often it is done, and the signs that show it is time to replace it. Relining versus a new denture.
- Denture Stomatitis: How Redness Under a Denture ClearsRedness under a denture is usually denture stomatitis. Taking it out at night, disinfecting the denture, where medicine fits, and a caution for blood thinners.
- Denture Adhesive: When Is It a Warning Sign?How to use denture adhesive, how much is too much, and whether daily use harms. Cream, powder and pads, the zinc warning, and when relining is due.
- My Denture Is Rubbing and I Have a Sore: What Now?Why a denture rubs, what helps the sore at home, and how the clinic corrects the pressure spot. Why a sore unhealed after two weeks should be examined.
- Can't Eat Properly with a Denture: Why, and What to Do?Why chewing power drops with a denture, why biting with your side teeth helps, and how to manage difficult foods. Where adhesive helps, and where it does not.
- False Teeth: Who They Suit and How Long to AdjustFull and partial dentures: how they are made, what is normal in the first weeks, night-time removal and cleaning, replacement, and the fixed options.
Life After Treatment
- Temporary Teeth or Final Teeth? The Teeth Fitted in 72 HoursWith conventional implants, temporary teeth come first and final teeth months later. In the Implant72 protocol the teeth fixed on day 3 are final.
- Alcohol After Dental Implants: When and How Much?Why alcohol waits after implants, which antibiotics and painkillers it never mixes with, and how regular drinking affects the bone around an implant.
- MRI with Dental Implants: Heating, Images and MagnetsCan you have an MRI scan with dental implants, does titanium heat up or distort the image? Magnetic dentures before MRI, CT scans and airport security.
- Learning to Speak with Fixed TeethWhich sounds are hardest with new fixed teeth, how long adjusting takes, which exercises help, and which speech problem needs an adjustment.
- What Can I Eat with Fixed Teeth?Once healed, eating is close to normal. The few lasting things to watch, the foods that fracture a bridge, and why an implant does not feel pressure.
- Flying, Travel and Sport After ImplantsWhen you can fly, whether airport scanners go off, MRI scans, returning to sport, and why diving is a separate question. Planning travel correctly.
Coming for Treatment
- Coming From Germany to Turkey for Dental ImplantsThe price difference is real, but it is not the whole decision. What your insurance covers, planning leave, what to bring, and follow-up back in Germany.
- Coming from Austria and Switzerland for ImplantsCompulsory insurance covers implants in neither country. What to bring home, who does your yearly check-up, and what to clarify before you fly.
- Coming from Finland for Dental ImplantsKela's reimbursement for private care is limited and does not cover Turkey. Records to bring, winter flight planning, and follow-up once you are home.
- Coming from the Netherlands for Dental ImplantsThe basisverzekering does not cover adult tandarts care, and the tandartsverzekering is often limited abroad. Records to bring and how to plan the three days.
- Coming from the UK for Dental ImplantsThe NHS does not cover implant treatment, and GHIC does not cover Turkey. What to bring home, who checks up on you, and what to ask before you fly.
- Planning for Patients Travelling from Another CityComing from another city: how many days to set aside, what to bring, planning the journey home and what happens if plans change. A step-by-step checklist.
- I Live Outside Turkey: How Will Follow-Up Work?Living abroad after implant treatment: what can be done remotely, what needs a dental chair, which records to take home, and setting up yearly check-ups.