Dental implants in Bristol
Dental implants can change your life
Implant Home | Replacing a Single Tooth | Replacing Several Teeth | Replacing All of Your Teeth/Loose DenturesStoke Bishop dental centre in Bristol has many years experience of dental implants. Through this web site we aim to answer all your questions about dental implants. Stoke Bishop Dental Centre's principal dentist, Jim Toms, limits his practice work entirely to dental implants and receives implant referral work from dentists across the Bristol area.
Implants are the fastest growing area of dentistry. Technical advances in this area mean that it is now possible to correct problems that, until a few years ago, were untreatable.
Lost teeth or ill fitting dentures can make eating, talking or smiling an embarssing problem. Now dental implants let you eat, talk and smile with complete confidence, they offer a permanent solution.
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What is a dental implant?
An artifical root becomes a permanent anchor for a new colour matched tooth or teeth. Dental implants look and feel like natural teeth and have a very high success rate. Implants can be used for everything from a single missing tooth up to a full arch of fixed replacement teeth. They are also used to stabilize loose dentures.
Advantages of dental implants over dentures or bridges.
Every way you look at it, dental implants are a better solution to missing teeth.
Aesthetic:
Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. Since dental implants integrate into the structure of your bone, they prevent the bone loss and gum shrinkage that often accompany bridge work or dentures. No one will ever know that you have a replacement tooth.
Tooth saving:
Dental implants don't sacrifice the adjacent teeth like a bridge does, because neighbouring teeth are not altered to support the implant. More of your own teeth are left untouched, a significant long-term benefit to your oral health.
Confidence:
Dental implants will allow you to once again speak and eat with comfort and confidence. They are secure and offer freedom from the irksome clicks and wobbles of loose dentures. Say goodbye to worries about misplaced dentures and messy pastes and glues.
Predictable:
Implant treatments are well researched and have a consistently high success rate.
Am I a candidate for dental implants?
The ideal candidate has good general health and good dental health but let’s face it, if you had great teeth you wouldn’t need implants!
Apart from those that have lost teeth in an accident, most patients seeking implants have a long history of dental problems. You may have lost teeth through gum disease or as a result of decay re-starting around fillings or crowns. Alternatively you may have been struggling with dentures for years. Implants are usually still possible and any underlying problems such as gum disease or decay are treated as part of the implant planning and assessment process.
Meet Jim Toms, Stoke Bishop Dental Centre's implant dentist
Jim Toms of Stoke Bishop Dental Centre has been placing implants for ten years. Jim is one of the few dentists in the Bristol area to limit his practise entirely to implant dentistry. He receives referrals for implant work from many dentists in the Bristol area and has lectured to general dentists on the techniques and benefits of implants and implant treatments.
He is happy to offer free implant consultations and advice to any potential implant patient. He can give you a good general idea of implant options and implant costs at your first visit. This implant advice is generally free of charge and carries no obligation to start implant treatment.
Once implant treatment has been agreed and fully planned, it is completed on a fixed price basis and a first year warranty is included at no cost to the patient.
To book your free implant consultation
Call Bristol : 0117 968 4888e-mail : jim.toms@ukrtc.net