Are the immediate dental implants stored in the clinic?

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No, I don’t have a supply of these individual teeth. And the reason why is because we can manufacture it differently.

Everyone's teeth are different. For example, your teeth could be big, mine could be small, some people's teeth can be long, or broad.

Everyone's teeth are different, so the beauty of computer-guided planning and CADCAM technology is that through all these scans and software we can actually make immediate temporary crowns that will be in the exact same shape to blend in with the rest of the teeth.

So I don’t need to keep a whole array of teeth sizes to kind of try to mix and match to see which is the closest match because all these are customized for every individual, so it's brilliant. The technology we have now is really advanced that we can pre-make or pre customize teeth according to the individual specifications of the patient.

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How do I know when I need dental implants?

I do a lot of root canal treatment and to make a natural tooth look good, especially your front tooth, is quite easy. To make a front implant look good is extremely difficult. You’ll need multiple surgeries, not only to place the implants but also to graft the gums and all that. If the patient is quite young, meaning in their 20s or 30s, our skeleton keeps growing so the rest of the teeth will keep moving down but the implant doesn’t move. So when you hit your 50s you’ll have this cosmetic problem that’s very difficult to fix.

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Do more young people get dental implants compared to older people?

Yes, young people get them quite often but for different reasons. When you’re old, sometimes your immune system changes or you get gum disease just by the sheer length of time. You may have more lost teeth because you’ve lived a longer age. But we get a lot of young people getting implants as well because maybe they’re born without teeth as a congenital defect where they just never had teeth so they want implants to replace it. The other most common thing that we see in young people is that they cracked their tooth.

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