Implantology

An implant is a titanium screw placed into the jawbone in place of the root of a lost tooth. An abutment and crown are fitted onto it later. Unlike a bridge, an implant requires no grinding of healthy neighbouring teeth — they are left untouched.

The second, less obvious advantage concerns bone. Where a tooth is missing, the bone in that place gradually loses volume because it no longer receives load from chewing. An implant restores that load and slows the loss.

If a tooth was lost long ago, there is often not enough bone left in that place to hold an implant. Augmentation — restoring bone volume — is then carried out before or at the same time as placement. It lengthens the treatment, but without it the implant is not stable.

Whether augmentation is needed is not judged by eye but measured on the volumetric scan. That is why the scan is the first step and not a formality.

The cost of implant treatment is not a single figure but the sum of its steps: the scan, placement, augmentation where needed, the abutment and the crown. The final amount is therefore known only after the examination and scan, when the number of implants and the state of the bone are known.

Rather than printing numbers here that may not apply to you, you receive a treatment plan with prices at the examination. Prices for the individual dental procedures already in our price list are on the price list page.