Single Tooth Dental Implants

At Deansgate Dental Studio, our team can help repair, restore, and enhance a smile with a missing or damaged tooth with a single tooth dental implant.

Living with even just one missing or severely damaged tooth can be enough to ruin a smile, and severely impact your ability to eat and speak. At Deansgate Dental Studio, our team will always recommend replacement when it comes to missing or severely damaged teeth, and we believe dental implants offer patients the next-best thing to a natural tooth.

What is a single tooth dental implant?

These implants are designed to replace just one missing or extracted tooth. Made up of a titanium screw which acts as the new root for the tooth, a prosthetic tooth/porcelain crown is then placed on top of it, leaving the smile as good as new.

Am I suitable for a single tooth dental implant?

We’ll be able to determine your suitability for this treatment at a consultation, and will first undertake an X-ray or CBCT scan to make sure there is enough healthy jawbone available.

How long does this treatment take?

Receiving a single tooth dental implant can take up to several months, with frequent visits to the practice. In some cases we are able to provide a solution in a much shorter time frame but it is dependent on the quality of the bone and other oral conditions.

What is the treatment process like?

The titanium screw/implant will be inserted into the jawbone during your first appointment. This will be done under local anaesthetic, and we’ll make sure you’re comfortable and pain-free throughout. There will then be a wait of a couple of months while the screw and the jawbone successfully fuse together.

During this time we’ll be able to provide you with a temporary prosthesis if required so you can keep eating, speaking, and smiling as usual. Once the jawbone and implant have successfully fused together, you’ll come back into the practice, and we’ll place your personal prosthesis for you.

What are the benefits of a single tooth dental implant?

• Acts just as a natural tooth does.
• Enhances the smile.
• Promotes and protects density of jawbone.
• Helps maintain the facial structures.
• Eat and enjoy food.
• Easy to take care of.
• Does not affect neighbouring teeth.
• Doesn’t require messy adhesives.