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Can Dental Implant Placement Be Modified After Healing? (photo)
Long story short. Have had recommended bone grafting, crown lengthening, and gingival modification all to place implants for # 8,9,10. 8 and 9 implants appear too far apart and sculpted papillae is not lined up in center of upper jaw making placement of #10 difficult. Dentist would prefer to not have #10 implant placed as he feels outcome will be more cosmetically pleasing with a bridge. Appears there will be no papillae between 9-10 and 10-11. Future bone loss concerns me. Any comments?
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Dental Implant Changes after Placement
Unfortunately, implants cannot be moved once placed. To remove it would require surgery, healing and then having another implant placed. There are, however, many creative ways to make less than ideal implant placement cases work. Your best bet is to find a highly competent dentist who can work with an excellent lab to do some "artistic implant dentistry"
Perhaps write back to us with suggested treatments to get further advice prior to doing...
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Houston Cosmetic Dentist
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Implant Modifications after Placement
There a number of concerns you should have been aware of including why we do not usually place implants next to each other! When implants are placed next to each other, there is usually no papilla present because the architectural issues are different than when an implant is placed next to a natural tooth when the papillae is present due to the bone from the tooth. Next, an implant can be relocated by reopen inf the gum and performing an osteotomies to move it where you want if the implant...
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Implants cannot be moved unless you take them out and re-do them.
Unfortunately your pictures are a bit out of focus(looks like they are mirror shots?) Hard to tell from this if they are place properly or not. However, once implants heal they cannot be moved. They would have to be surgically taken out, let the bone heal/graft and re-do them in the correct possition. There is the risk of lossing bone and gum by doing this.
This type of work needs to be planned very carefully between the surgeon and the restorative dentist, and both need to have...
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Miami Beach Cosmetic Dentist
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Can implants be changed once healing has occurred
Once your implant has healed (fused to the bone), change is only possible if the implants are removed. . It is best not to place implant #10 for cosmetic reasons- so a crown will be made as cantilever off #9. Soft tissue (papilla) can be designed through temporary prosthesis fabrication and specific surgical techniques that your surgeon can provide.
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Can IMplant Placement be modified after healing?
Upon looking at your case but haev never seen you as a patient, it seems as thuogh your case was poorly planned from the beginning. It is possible to move implants but it requires removing thema dn bone grafting and then upon healing placing new ones. This process will take about a year or so. You probably do not want to go through that.
If possible a smaller diameter implant can be placed in the open area. I would see a periodontist to have the imlant placed...
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Jacksonville Cosmetic Dentist
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Dental implants don't move
Once osseointegrated (fused to bone) implants stay put. If the placement is not ideal, then removal and replacement is needed, which will take considerable time. In this situation, having #10 cantilever off of #9 is an option. The soft tissue, the papilla, can be developed in the provisional (temporary) phase of treatment, but may not turn out "perfect".
Bone stays put pretty well under tension, meaning with teeth or implants present, bone stays. When...
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Implant placement position and papilla formation
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The position of the implants can not be changed. Their position should correspond to the position of the planned teeth, which would have been predicted by having done pre-operative models and work up by your restorative dentist and surgeon. It is best not to place implant #10 for cosmetic reasons- so a crown will be made as cantilever off #9. Soft tissue (papilla) can be designed through temporary prosthesis fabrication and specific surgical techniques that your surgeon can provide...
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