At Brockley Dental Center, we understand that many patients live on a budget. Learning how to save your money and where to spend it is an important life skill that relies on having priorities! Some priorities are obvious, like paying rent or buying groceries. However, some important needs get pushed aside when budgeting, so it’s essential to understand what problems need your attention first. For example, people with missing teeth often leave gaps in their smiles for years, which has unfortunate consequences on their oral health! While dental implants are a reliable method of tooth replacement, they have a reputation for being expensive, pushing many patients away. Fortunately, we offer mini dental implants, which cost significantly less than traditional dental implant solutions!
Why Replacing Missing Teeth Is a Priority
Natural teeth have two main parts to their structure. The top portion of a tooth is the crown, which lies above the gum line, visible in your smile. The bottom portion of your tooth is the root, which lies below the gum line, embedded in your jawbone.
Tooth roots play an essential role in the health of your jawbone. When you bite or chew with natural teeth, your roots stimulate your bone, keeping it healthy. Without tooth roots, your jaw will undergo a process known as bone resorption, resulting in the loss of mass and volume over time!
Bone resorption has many unfortunate consequences, such as:
- Wrinkling skin: As you lose jawbone structure, your lips lose vital support. This often causes the skin around your lips and cheeks to sag, wrinkling excessively near your mouth.
- Shifting teeth: When you lose a tooth, the remaining teeth in your mouth tend to shift around. Unfortunately, this movement is only accelerated by bone resorption.
- Changing facial structure: Over time, your shrinking jaw will cause the shape of your facial structure to change. While the process is slow, eventually you may find noticeable differences in face shape.
Only dental implants prevent bone resorption, as they are the only tooth replacement method that replaces both the crown and root of your tooth! At Brockley Dental Center, we offer mini dental implant solutions for the various benefits they offer patients like you.
What Are Mini Implants?
Mini dental implants are small titanium posts we secure in your jaw to support artificial teeth restorations like crowns, bridges, or dentures.
To place mini implants, we use a minimally invasive approach. Unlike traditional dental implants, which are large and invasive, mini implants have a small diameter, allowing us to use a small pilot hole for placement. Due to their minimally invasive procedure, mini implants preserve the gum and bone tissues that surround your implant, facilitating faster healing and stability. After placement, these implants are immediately stable enough to support a temporary or even final restoration the same day!
Explaining the Cost of Mini Implants
Traditional dental implants are notorious for their expensive price tag, often driving patients on a budget away from implant solutions. Thankfully, Brockley Dental Center uses mini dental implants, which are about half the cost of traditional implants.
The low cost of mini implants comes from three distinct benefits.
- One-piece design: Unlike the multi-piece structure of traditional implants, mini implants are a single piece of titanium. With fewer components, there are fewer parts to pay for and less risk of complications like infection.
- Fewer appointments: Because mini implants are only one piece, we can place them in just one appointment! This saves you both time in the chair and money on multiple visits.
- No additional procedures: Traditional implants often require additional procedures like a bone graft, as patients who suffer from bone resorption frequently lack the necessary bone structure to support an implant. Unfortunately, bone grafts add to your implant procedure’s cost and recovery time. However, mini implants are much smaller in diameter, allowing patients to restore their smiles without additional procedures to pay for!
Affording the Cost of Mini Implants
While mini implants cost much less than their traditional counterparts, we understand that some patients are still on a budget.
Unfortunately, many insurance companies won’t cover implant procedures because they consider them cosmetic. However, some companies are beginning to recognize the restorative value of dental implants and are offering some coverage for portions of the process. We recommend you check with your provider and call us with any questions about insurance to discover what your plan may cover.
Additionally, Brockley Dental Center partners with third-party financing companies that help make your procedure more affordable. With our flexible financing options, you can split the cost of mini implants into manageable monthly payments!
Restore Your Smile Affordably at Brockley Dental Center
Budgeting is an important life skill, but so is knowing what to prioritize when it comes to spending. Replacing missing teeth should be a priority, as your oral health and function depend on a full and complete smile. With mini implant solutions, you can affordably restore your smile without the hassle of traditional implant procedures.
Book a consultation today at Brockley Dental Center to discover what mini dental implants can do for you!
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