Why Not To Worry About Implant Surgery

Dental implants are a powerful tool for permanently solving the serious effects of tooth loss. You’ll often hear implants referred to as a way of replacing your teeth. That’s true, in a way, but they’re actually replacement roots. Those roots can support teeth, bridges, crowns, and even dentures. Implants accomplish all that by planting those roots into your jaw tissue. Doing that requires surgery to place those titanium root implants into your jaw, where they’ll bond powerfully and permanently as if they were natural tissue.

It is completely normal if you have mixed emotions about dental implants: excitement about filling the gaps in your smile, but also some anxiousness about the surgery itself. Your dentist in Winnipeg wants to give you all the information you need to help assuage that understandable concern. Here are three reasons not to worry about the implant surgery.

A lot of planning will be done ahead of time

The day you attend your dentist in Winnipeg to have your implants placed will not be the first appointment that you have with your dentist. Before the implants are placed, you’ll meet with your dentist to make all preparations well in advance. Those preparations will include a thorough examination of your gums and jaw and the taking of dental images. The purpose of the examination will be to determine the health of your mouth and jaw, and to determine the appropriateness of implants to solve your tooth loss.

If, after that examination, you are determined to be a good candidate for dental implants, your dentist will develop a careful treatment plan including determining the precise location of your implants. The treatment plan that you and your dentist develop will guide the location of all incisions and implants.

The point of all of that is this — a lot of careful time, attention, and planning will be put into your treatment… long before you arrive at the dentist in Winnipeg for your implant procedure. The dentist and their staff will, at every step in the planning, take the time to answer all your questions and take any measures necessary to assuage any fears or concerns.

The implant procedure won’t hurt

At the beginning of your dental implant procedure, your dentist will apply local anesthesia to ensure that the affected areas of your jaw and gums are completely numbed to sensation. Your dentist will not proceed until they have confirmed that you’re not feeling discomfort in the area to be treated.

Under local anesthesia, you’ll remain awake and fully aware of everything that is happening. If you are someone who experiences common dental anxiety or fear, be sure to discuss that anxiety with your dentist’s office ahead of time. Your dentist in Winnipeg will describe options for performing your surgery under sedation Sedation may, depending on your medical history and personal needs, be provided through a mask (laughing gas or nitrous oxide), orally (via a pill), or intravenously (into a vein in your arm).  Each sedation approach offers different levels of sedation to ensure you’re calm and relaxed throughout your surgery.

How will you feel after surgery?

Any discomfort you feel after your surgery will be minimal thanks to the development of modern and minimally invasive surgical techniques. Thanks to the advance planning and imaging prior to the procedure, your dentist will be able to make precise and minimally invasive incisions which will be closed by stitches to ensure quick recovery without infection. If you do experience discomfort or pain that you find distracting, your dentist in Winnipeg may recommend using over-the-counter pain medication.

Nervousness is understandable. One of the most effective counters to nervousness, though, is information. Take all the time you need to get all the information you need to understand the risks and the steps taken to manage those risks and ensure your comfort at all times. If you have any questions or concerns about your implant procedure — any at all — contact a dentist near you about dental implants in Winnipeg.