Dental Implants

Once your dental implants have healed, you'll be able to fully enjoy the benefits of these outstanding tooth replacements. Chewing, speaking and smiling will feel as comfortable and natural as before you lost teeth.

Knowing if you are a good candidate for dental implants is an important step in achieving a beautiful smile and a successful cosmetic outcome. But how, exactly, can you tell if you are a good candidate for this beneficial procedure?

A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that is placed in your mouth to support prosthetic dental crowns or dentures. This procedure offers total replacement of missing teeth. Dr. Paul Sussman often recommends dental implants for patients seeking a permanent solution that will protect the longevity of their smile.

Dental implants can serve as a permanent solution for missing or severely decayed teeth. They are digitally color-matched to blend in with your smile and help to ensure that you don't lose jaw bone density. Find out more about dental implants here:

Missing teeth pose serious dental health problems, including additional tooth loss and even deterioration of your jawbone. Fortunately, if you have missing teeth our team can provide you with a solution. We offer our patients in the Greece area dental implants to help avoid these major issues all while restoring your smile.

Replacing a missing tooth involves more than simply making your smile whole again. In Webster, or anywhere else, dental implants are an ideal solution for tooth replacement because they restore oral health in ways that other dental treatments can’t.

Rochester and Greece-area residents hoping to replace missing teeth have a number of options at the Center for Cosmetic & General Dentistry. Dental implants, for example, are ideal for replacing a small number of missing teeth while also helping prevent the unwanted dental complications associated with tooth loss.

If you’ve worn dentures in the past, you’re probably familiar with their less desirable shortcomings: instability, agitation along the gum line, food restrictions and the need for messy adhesives. For many people in Fairport, dentures are an imperfect, albeit practical, solution to significant tooth loss.

For tooth-loss sufferers in Webster and Rochester, both dental implants and bridges can provide exceptional relief: a better smile, easier chewing and improved speech. However, neither option is ideally suited for every person in every situation.

Which treatment is right for you? Here are a few considerations:

Dental implants are one of the strongest and long-lasting tooth replacement options available. Though technically dental implants can last forever, the longevity of your treatment will depend on a variety of factors. 

While many implants can last for a lifetime when properly cared for, dental implants can also fail for an assortment of reasons including: