What is an implant?

A dental implant is a titanium post (like a tooth root) that is surgically positioned into the jawbone beneath the gum line that allows your dentist to mount replacement teeth or a bridge into that area. An implant doesn’t come loose like a denture can.

How do Dental Implants Work?

Because implants fuse to your jawbone, they provide stable support for artificial teeth. Dentures and bridges mounted to implants won’t slip or shift in your mouth — an especially important benefit when eating and speaking. This secure fit helps the dentures and bridges — as well as individual crowns placed over implants — feel more natural than conventional bridges or dentures.

For some people, ordinary bridges and dentures are simply not comfortable or even possible, due to sore spots, poor ridges or gagging. In addition, ordinary bridges must be attached to teeth on either side of the space left by the missing tooth. An advantage of implants is that no adjacent teeth need to be prepared or ground down to hold your new replacement tooth/teeth in place.

Types of Implants

There are mainly two types of implants:

Endosteal implants— these are surgically implanted directly into the jawbone. Once the surrounding gum tissue has healed, a second surgery is needed to connect a post to the original implant. Finally, an artificial tooth (or teeth) is attached to the post-individually or grouped on a bridge or denture.

Subperiosteal implants— these consist of a metal frame that is fitted onto the jawbone just below the gum tissue. As the gums heal, the frame becomes fixed to the jawbone. Posts, which are attached to the frame, protrude through the gums. As with endosteal implants, artificial teeth are then mounted to the posts.

• Posts are surgically placed below the gums.
• Artificial teeth, grouped on a bridge, are mounted to the posts.
• Implants offer a very stable and secure fit.
• Implants serve as a base for single replacement teeth.

Laser Implants

Dental implants are an excellent choice for replacing missing teeth, and laser dentists are a smart choice for placing implants. Laser treatment has many clinical advantages when compared to scalpels and blades—including giving more precise control to the clinician and more comfort to the patient.

Dental lasers are medical devices that use precisely focused light to treat tissue. The term LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Lasers can be used as a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of dental procedures and are often used in conjunction with other dental instruments, remove inflamed gum tissues and aid in the treatment of gum disease. remove or reshape gum and bone tissues during crown lengthening procedures.

Do implants Hurt?

Placing an implant is often easier than taking a tooth out and is usually done using a simple local anaesthetic. You will not feel any pain at the time but, just like after an extraction, you may feel some discomfort during the week after the surgery.

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Paediatric dentistry

At Nairobi Dental Suite, we provide numerous dental services for kids, ranging from fluoride treatments and dental sealants to pulpotomies and extractions. In addition to providing a high quality of care, we make your children feel at ease so that they don’t fear going to the dentist. Getting your child used to going to the dentist at an early age for check-ups and cleanings helps build life-long positive dental habits.

White & Amalgam fillings

The NDS dental practice offers both composite (white) fillings and amalgam (metal) fillings. White fillings, made of a composite resin, offer the benefit of being aesthetically pleasing, while less expensive metal fillings show time-tested durability. We are happy to provide whichever filling option you choose.

Extractions

Tooth extractions, including wisdom teeth removal, are a necessary aspect of general dentistry. Sometimes teeth need to be extracted due to impaction, while in other cases we need to remove a tooth because it is too damaged by decay or infection to repair. In either case, we make sure you are as comfortable as can be during and after the extraction. We also offer restorative options to replace extracted teeth, if desired.

Digital X-rays

Digital radiography (X-rays) in dentistry allows us to store digital images of your teeth on our machines and to send electronic X-ray records. With digital X-rays, the patient is also exposed to less radiation than with traditional X-rays.

Other services

• Dental Hygiene and Gum treatments
• Wisdom teeth removal
• IV Sedation

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Your smile is the first impression that others have of you, so it makes sense that you would want it to be bright, white and healthy. We can transform your smile’s shape, colour, alignment, as well as filling in gaps and discreetly restoring decayed or damaged teeth with tooth-coloured fillings.

Teeth Whitening:

Teeth become discoloured for several reasons, including drinking coffee and tea, smoking, and poor dental hygiene. Tooth whitening technology allows quick and affordable tooth whitening options that do not damage the enamel of your teeth. In many cases teeth can be significantly whitened in about an hour.

After a quick tooth whitening visit, you leave our offices with a more radiant smile and a dramatic increase in self-confidence.

White Fillings:

Unlike old-fashioned amalgam (silver) fillings, composite (white) fillings are made from tooth-coloured materials. These white resin fillings are used to fill cavities in your teeth. Resin composite fillings are an attractive, functional option to fix new cavities, and they can also be used to replace old amalgam fillings.

Crowns:

Dental crowns are a popular restorative option for teeth that are badly decayed, misshaped, discoloured, or fractured. We also use them to restore teeth that have undergone a root canal. Crowns are typically covered by dental insurance and provide both functional and aesthetic benefits. While we also offer metal crowns, porcelain (ceramic) crowns are considered the cosmetic crown option, as they are colour-matched to look like your real teeth.

Porcelain Veneers:

A porcelain veneer is a thin piece of dental porcelain that is fitted over an existing tooth to improve the look and function of the tooth. For the most part, patients choose veneers for cosmetic reasons, i.e., to fix teeth that are badly chipped, misshapen, or discoloured. Veneers can also be used to fill in gaps in your smile. As opposed to crowns, your natural teeth remain largely intact underneath the veneers.

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