While the term oral implants is often used synonymously with dental implants, oral implants can be quite different. Oral implants can be of soft tissue, bone tissue, or some type of titanium framework supporting, augmenting, or correcting abnormalities of the oral cavity, not necessarily involved with replacing missing teeth. This type of oral surgery requires careful planning between the surgeon, the restoring dentist and the patient in order to achieve the most successful outcome. While in the past this procedure may have required multiple doctors in multiple offices, causing treatment to be delayed or prolonged, or even incomplete, Dr. Paris – because of his extensive training – is capable of rendering treatment for all phases in his office.
Examples where these types of oral implants are suitable include but are not limited to the following:
When properly performed, oral implants can restore the patient to an almost normal architecture of the oral cavity, which is a significant improvement from traditional methods which require plastic and/or metal appliances that would need to be adjusted or remade and many times requiring an adhesive material to keep them stable in the mouth. Patients complain that these devices alter their speech, reduce their enjoyment of eating, and impact their social interactions due to fear of the appliances becoming dislodged during speaking or eating.