Implant Dentistry

Now Available At Our Newport News, Virginia Practice - Implant Dentistry, Restorations with Dental Implants

We have good news for our patients who have lost one or more teeth. You no longer have to worry about your smile! Dr. William T. Griffin and his staff at our Newport News, Virginia office are excited to tell you about our implant dentistry procedures and how they can improve your smile and your life. With our dental implants, you never have to be anxious about the cosmetic consequences of missing teeth. Now available at our Virginia office, our natural-looking dental implants eliminate the embarrassment of a gapped smile or ill-fitting, off-color dentures or dental bridges. Our dental implants can give you back your confidence, and they will free you from the inconvenience and unpleasant aspects of dentures or dental bridges. At our Newport News office, our cosmetic dentist will use the latest, most advanced implant dentistry techniques and the most comfortable dental implants available to permanently replace your missing teeth and give you the beautiful smile you deserve.

What Are Dental Implants ?

Dental implants are high-strength titanium tooth roots placed directly into the jaw and held in place by bone and surrounding tissue. Because these artificial tooth roots are compatible with biological tissue, the roots become securely integrated into your mouth. Once the tissue and bone around the titanium roots have healed, the dental implants are capped with aesthetic crowns that match your existing teeth for a realistic appearance. Our Newport News patients who receive dental implants will require oral surgery as part of their implant dentistry procedure. To ensure our patients’ comfort and alleviate any anxieties they might have, we offer sedation dentistry to all of our Virginia patients who desire dental implants.

What Are the Advantages of Dental Implants ?

Dr. Griffin encourages patients at his Newport News, Virginia office to consider implant dentistry for several reasons. He assures his patients that dental implants offer several advantages over other dental solutions, including:

Comfort - Dental implants are much more comfortable than dentures or dental bridges. They not only look like natural teeth, they feel and function like natural teeth.
Confidence - Our virtually undetectable dental implants will restore your confidence to smile broadly and speak and eat without worry. Because dental implants have the stability of natural teeth, you’ll never be embarrassed again by the clicks of shifting dentures.
Health - An unfortunate consequence of dentures and dental bridges is often bone loss and gum recession. In addition, dental bridges must rely on surrounding teeth for support, many times leading to other dental problems. Dental implants solve both of these negative effects to your dental health because they integrate with your mouth’s structure to support bone and gums, and they require no disturbance of adjacent teeth.
Enjoyment and Convenience - Once your implant dentistry procedure is complete, you can go back to eating all of the foods you love. You can talk, laugh, and smile without a care. And with dental implants, you will never have to worry about messy adhesives, unpleasant cleaning solutions and substances, or losing your dental appliances again!

How Do I Care for My Dental Implants ?

You’ll find that caring for your dental implants is simple and easy. After you leave our Newport News, Virginia office with your implant dentistry work complete, you will treat your dental implants much as you do your natural teeth. To keep your dental implants clean and healthy, you will brush and floss them daily. Dr. Griffin will have you return to our office for periodic check-ups of your dental implants to ensure that they and your gums and other teeth remain healthy.

Contact our Newport News, Virginia office to learn more about our implant dentistry procedures and how dental implants can improve your smile and your life.

Implant Dentistry - Options Available to You

Dr. Griffin has implant options available at his Newport News office that go beyond dental implants for tooth replacement. He can use the technology of implant dentistry to repair existing implant crowns and improve the fit and stability of dentures and dental bridges. Our Virginia patients now have a full range of implant dentistry procedures available to improve their dental health and appearance.

Crown Restoration for Dental Implants

The crown portions of your dental implants will last a long time. However, our Virginia patients who are considering implant dentistry should know that as with any artificial dental appliance, daily wear and tear on dental implants can cause the crown portion to eventually crack or break. As an additional service at our Newport News office, Dr. Griffin can repair dental implants whose crowns have become damaged. When replacing a crown, he takes into account tooth color and size as well as other features to ensure that the replacement crowns are as realistic looking as possible. Our Virginia patients can rest assured that their dental implants will always look and feel like natural teeth.

Implant-Supported Dentures

For our patients who prefer dentures, we have at our Newport News, Virginia office an implant dentistry procedure that allows the titanium roots used for dental implants to be used to hold dentures in place. The dentures may be held in place by an individual dental implant root or a row of titanium roots. In both cases, the implant-supported dentures look natural and are extremely durable. Our Virginia patients who wear dentures will find that this implant dentistry procedure gives their dentures a much better, more stable fit, and eliminates embarrassing denture shifting.

Implant-Supported Bridges

Dental bridges are sometimes a better option for our Virginia patients. As with implant-supported dentures, the titanium roots that hold dental implants can also support dental bridges. Comfortable and natural-looking implant-supported bridges fit snugly over the titanium roots for optimal support. Now available at our Newport News office, this implant dentistry procedure can provide you with an effective implant-supported bridge that can be either fixed or removable. A significant benefit of this implant dentistry procedure is that because titanium roots hold the bridge in place, the bridge does not require support from other teeth. Just as important, our Virginia patients who choose implant-supported dentures or bridges receive the benefit of healthier gums and bones. As with all dental implants, because the titanium roots integrate with the mouth, they support the gums and bone and keep them from receding.

Our Newport News, Virginia office has an implant dentistry procedure that can help you. For information on dental implants, implant-supported dentures and bridges, and our other cosmetic dentistry services, contact our office today.