What is the implant insertion surgery like?
Most of the time the surgery is quite simple for the patient. Typically, the actual procedure for a single implant lasts no longer than it does for doing a large filling. Pre-medications and all the measurements are confirmed. We check your vital signs, scrub and drape, numb up the area and proceed. We gain access to the bone where the implant will be placed and prepare the opening in it that is shaped and sized like the implant itself. The implant is secured, and any stitches needed are placed. Then we make an x-ray confirming the proper placement, and it is all done. If stitches were used we usually remove them in one to two weeks at a follow-up visit.
