Dr. Wilcox can help boost your Eating, smiling, and speaking with implants are as normal as with natural teeth A permanent alternative to dentures, dental implants are an innovative source of confidence and security in family, social, and business activities. The procedure takes only 2 or 3 visits, allowing you to continue your active life at work and play. What is the After a brief consultation and digital X-Rays, Dr. Wilcox ensures a dental implant is your best alternative. Then, he makes a mold to build a custom model of your missing tooth for an exact fit. On your next visit, Dr. Wilcox uses a local anesthetic and places the tapered implant during a short procedure. The implant takes about 3 months to integrate into your jawbone, and then a crown tooth is crafted to go on top of the implant. Are Dental Implants Right for You? Dr. Wilcox will help find the best
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Dr. Wilcox Bridges the Gap with Modern Dentistry
Missing
Teeth
Custom
Fixed Bridges
New Dentures
Dental Implants
Missing Teeth
A smile can be the most eye-catching feature of
a face. Gaps or missing teeth can create indentations in the cheeks
that can cause skin to wrinkle.
Replacing missing teeth will benefit your appearance and your health. If you wait too long after losing a tooth, your remaining teeth may shift. This can throw off the alignment of your bite, causing jaw problems (TMJ), increasing the chance of periodontal disease and possible bone loss.
Custom Fixed Bridge
An implant bridge attaches artificial teeth directly
to the jaw or under the gum tissue. Depending on which type of bridge
Dr. Wilcox recommends for you, its success depends on its foundation.
So it's very important to keep your remaining teeth healthy and strong.
With dentistry's many advances, you no longer have to settle for artificial teeth that don't stay put. Dr. Wilcox gives you choices that can help you smile with confidence.
New Dentures
If you’ve lost all of your natural teeth, whether
from periodontal disease, tooth decay or injury, Dr. Wilcox offers various
types of complete dentures that can help you eat and speak normally again—things
that people often take for granted until their natural teeth are lost.
A conventional full denture is made and placed in the patient’s mouth after the remaining teeth are removed and tissues have healed which may take several months.
An immediate complete denture is inserted as soon as the remaining teeth are removed. With immediate dentures, you can walk out of Dr. Wilcox’s office with your new teeth in just one visit!
Dental Implants
Depending on the location of your missing tooth,
it can change the appearance and aesthetics of your face and smile.
This may also cause your surrounding teeth to shift, resulting in hygiene problems, reduced chewing function, wear and tear on surrounding teeth, and long-term dental problems.
Without support from the denture, facial muscles sag, making a person look older.
To stabilize dentures so they look and feel like your own teeth, Dr. Wilcox is certified in dental implants that anchor dentures directly to the jawbone.
Because dental implants stand alone, they do not depend on adjacent teeth for support.
