Fast and Fixed Dental Implant

Fast and Fixed dental implants are recommended for patients:

• who have total edentence or have few teeth left on the arch;
• who want a functional denture, fast, obtained in 24 hours and that looks and functions exactly like a natural one.
• who want to get rid of the dental prosthesis and the inconveniences created by it;
• who have irretrievably destroyed teeth and can no longer be treated;
• who do not want to go through complex and complicated interventions, thus reducing the waiting time;
• suffering from periodontosis.

This type of treatment is not recommended for young people, 30-40-50 years old, whose life expectancy is high and whose masticatory forces are too high for such a small number of implants. These patients should be treated using the classic method, with several implants able to ensure a longer life of the final prosthetic work.

At the first consultation, the patient is diagnosed based on the panoramic radiograph, blood tests and computer tomography in order to establish the treatment plan. These investigations are necessary because they show the quality of the bone and the position of the nerves and sinuses and the general state of health.

Then, with the patient’s consent, the doctor draws up the treatment plan (estimating time and costs).

Insertion of the implants takes place in the morning. On the day of the intervention, the provisional work is done in the laboratory after the impressions taken by the doctor both before and immediately after inserting the dental implants.

In the evening, the patient can return to the office to fix the temporary work that is perfectly functional and has a beautiful aesthetic appearance. It does not have to be removed to be cleaned after meals, being fixed in the implants by screwing.

Provisional dentures look and feel like natural dentures, they are made of acrylic material and reinforced with metal for added strength. Being a rigid structure, it allows the osseointegration of implants, even if masticatory forces are applied to them.

The surgical intervention takes place. Under local anesthesia and eventual analgesia, the patient does not feel pain or other discomfort neither during nor after the operation.

The teeth that can no longer be treated are removed and 4 dental implants are inserted into the mandibular bone and 6 dental implants into the maxillary bone, the front ones straight and the back ones angled at 45 degrees, to avoid delicate anatomical formations (nerve mandibular, maxillary sinuses).

After the dental implants have been inserted, the gum is reshaped and an impression is made for the provisional work.

After the intervention, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs are also administered, so that the symptoms and edema are greatly reduced.

After approximately 4-6 months (during which the dental implants have comfortably integrated into the body and only periodic checks have been performed), the patient returns to the office to have the definitive prosthetic work done:

• metal-ceramic dental crowns;
• ceramic crowns on zirconium, etc;
• titanium works with zirconium crowns.

After making the implant, during 48 hours, a soft surgical toothbrush must be used, so as not to damage the gum.

In the next 5-10 days, it is recommended to use mouthwash with chlorhexidine after each brushing.

Whether it is a prosthesis or natural teeth, effective hygiene contributes to beautiful and healthy teeth in the long term.

The Fast&Fixed implant must be professionally cleaned at least once every 6 months, just like natural teeth.

As for food, there are no major restrictions, but vicious habits should be avoided such as:

• smoking (because nicotine affects the efficient integration in the bone system, respectively healing after surgery);
• redness of hard objects (pens);
• breaking hard fruits between the teeth (walnuts, pistachios);
• opening the corks with the teeth.
• gnashing of teeth.

Unlike the traditional dental implant, the Fast and Fixed implant offers patients undeniable benefits:

• possibility of resuming social life as soon as the patient leaves the office;
• quick accommodation with the provisional work;
• correct articulation of words;
• fast integration into the body;
• stability of the provisional dentition by screwing into the dental implant;
• fixing the work strictly by implants (which can only be unscrewed by the dentist) without support and damage to the gum.
• eliminating the risk of tooth decay under the work.

Besides the many advantages, this type of implant also has some disadvantages:

• Although it has a much more advantageous price compared to traditional implants, it is still significant for many patients.
• During the period when the patient has the temporary fixed denture, it must be properly maintained (both through rigorous hygiene at home and by following the rules of soft food and careful chewing).
• The patient’s strict non-compliance with the postoperative indications may lead to the loss of one or more implants in the first 3 months.
• If the insertion indication is not respected, i.e. the treatment is applied to young patients, the survival rate of implants is much lower than at age 3, because masticatory forces are much higher.
• Inserting rapid dental implants cannot be performed in any office, as this procedure involves specialist knowledge, specialist OMF surgeons and special medical and laboratory equipment.