Implants In the 80s when implant surgery started, few doctors even performed general anesthesia. Very sterile rooms, very protected. It was not very common.

It started to become widespread after 1990, and according to the criteria accepted today, it is the criteria accepted by American Dentists. Dentists Implants can be placed into the jawbone with simple oral surgeries, such as tooth extraction with local anesthesia during examination.

In other words, in clinics and offices, it's sometimes rare to have general anesthesia performed. This is more for those who are more fearful. Of course, we're talking about a simple surgical procedure. implant So, from a general perspective, if everything is fine and perfect, the procedure might be simpler if the implant is placed not too long after the tooth extraction. But when there is a delay, as we mentioned before, it triggers fear.

How is Implant Surgery Performed?

Our patients generally have fear of pain, fear of pain, fear of dentistry, as you know dentistry is one of the 10 feared professions in the world. They delay because of this fear. Delay has its costs. As in everything, what happens when you delay in health; after a tooth is extracted, the jawbone starts to melt. There used to be a thought like this after a tooth was extracted.

The teeth should be extracted, the place should be fixed and then the implant should be placed. This is completely abandoned information, our patients still have their teeth extracted and walk around like that for months. The bone continues to melt there. 1.5 mm of bone loss means a huge loss for us. Now if you look at the width of the jawbone, when the tooth is extracted, there is already about 6 mm of bone.

The width of an implant that we will place there is 4 mm, after all, there needs to be 2 mm of bone thickness left on the outside and back of the implant. If we melt 1.5 mm more bone, there will be no bone left to place the implant while we wait. The bone starts to thin. The bone first starts to shrink and melt. At the same time, it starts to shorten. This makes it difficult to place the implant.

Today, the accepted implant length should be 10 mm. The neck width of the 10 mm implant should also be 4 mm and it is within acceptable standards. You know, a good implant. It is better if it is 12 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, but as it narrows and shrinks, the load-carrying capacity of the implant decreases.

As you know, these will carry loads during chewing and will be used as tooth roots. Therefore, it is very important to place implants before the jawbones melt.