All-on-4 dental implants placement procedure has been around now for over a decade. It was developed back on 2000 by famous US and European dental companies and doctors and offers some amazing benefits to qualified patients.
So, typical step-by-step all-on-4 dental implants procedure:
- It all starts with first few visits to a doctor’s office for taking tests and getting ready the teeth replacement plan for the all-on-4 dental implants procedure.
- Now, all-on-4 procedure can also be called immediate dental implants placement procedure, because dental implants can be placed into the bones and gum right after the bad teeth extraction. So, the patient comes to the doctor’s office, has his or her teeth extracted and right away 4 implants are inserted into the bone and gum. At this, two of them are inserted in a certain angle to get more bone upholding them.
- What is more, the temporary replacement teeth are attached to those dental implants right away. Basically, this means that a patient leaves doctor’s office after just one visit both with new dental implants and with new teeth. So, there is no extra months, when a patient has to go around with bad teeth or with no teeth at all.
- There are several check up visits the patients would have to do after their temporary teeth are inserted. Those visits typically have to be made a week later, 2 weeks later, and than 2 and 4 months later.
- After the healing period of time (around 6 months) is over, the patient comes back for a return visit and has his or her temporary teeth replaced with permanent ones.
Now, in many cases, even the patients, who need both teeth arches replaced, can go through all-on-4 dental implants placement procedure and get them replaced at the same time during one visit to their doctor. This process eliminates possible negative results of consequent arch replacement and allows to attain the most perfect alignment of both arches.
Of course, there are some cases, when all-on-4 dental implants placement procedure is not the best choice to go by. Especially this is the case, when patients had suffered from a severe bone loss. And, of course, all of the all-on-4 procedure qualified patients have to go through preliminary examination to make sure there are no major health problems or other severe medical conditions. Besides being a 1 (one) stage procedure, it saves patients much pain of the reoccurring surgeries for reopening gums and uncovering dental implants.
So, the overall time of treatment with all-on-4 dental implants placement procedure takes just a little over of 6 months. This means, it cuts down the traditional implant treatment time by two thirds and spares patients the trouble of painful treatment and unpleasant time of going around with no teeth at all.