Improve Your Oral Health
Even if you don’t have a perfect smile, you have no reason to worry. These days, there are plenty of ways to bring your smile back to its former glory – or even make it look better than ever before! Here at St. Luke’s OMS, we are committed to helping our patients regain smiles they can be proud to show off. Our team makes sure to educate our patients on the best pathway to help them find the right treatment option for them. Learn a little bit more about some of the most common types of dental restoration below and be sure to call us if you’d like to set up a consultation!
Implants
What They Are: Dental implants are changing the way people live. Dental implants are designed to provide a foundation for replacement teeth that look, feel, and function like natural teeth. A person who has lost teeth regains the ability to eat virtually anything, knowing that their teeth appear natural and that their facial contours will be preserved. They can be made of a wide range of materials and used for many different purposes. Some implants hold a crown, others anchor bridges. Dental implants can be used as part of a complete solution to tooth loss, such as trefoil dental implants and all-on-four dental implants.
How They Help Your Oral Health: Missing teeth is hazardous to your oral health. Dental implants hold a space in your jaw (preventing decay) and provide a strong root to affix a crown, bridge, or other tooth replacement option.
All-On-4 Dental Implants
What They Are: All-on-4 offers a life changing treatment that gives patients a new smile in just one day. This treatment concept is a cost-efficient, graftless solution that provides patients with a fixed full-arch prosthesis on the day of surgery. Dental implants can be a great alternative to dentures, and provide a more permanent option that requires less maintenance over time. All-On-4 dental implants offer a myriad of benefits through a unique design that features a full arch of teeth with just four screw placements. This can be a lot faster and more affordable than tooth-by-tooth implantation, and can minimize the recovery period too.
How They Help Your Oral Health: If you’re missing teeth, dental implants can be a viable, long-term solution for restoring your beautiful smile. All-On-4 implants look just like regular implants, but can give you better results in just one, full-mouth restoration procedure for a total transformation of your oral health.
Trefoil System
What They Are: The Trefoil system is a breakthrough in efficiency for treating the mandible. Using a pre-manufactured bar with a unique fixation mechanism, it can adjust to compensate for inherent deviations from the ideal implant position. This is a new fixed solution for definitive teeth in one day.
How They Help Your Oral Health: The trefoil system offers a high-quality efficient fixed solution for more edentulous patients and patients with failing dentition. Benefits of fixed solutions offer improved function with a higher bite force, better retention and stability, and avoidance of some disadvantages of removable solutions including more mucosal problems and the wear of components.
If you’re interested in learning more about these restoration procedures or any other procedures completed by our office, we invite you to contact us. Our team is proud to help patients in Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Stroudsburg, PA and the surrounding areas enjoy full, healthy smiles. Call today to learn more.