Same Day Tooth Replacement

Same Day Tooth Replacement

If you know you are about to lose a tooth, or if you have suddenly lost a tooth, there may be a chance that you can get your tooth replaced with an ‘immediate’ dental implant!  Come and talk to us before your tooth comes out as this will maximize the chances of an immediate implant being possible.

When are immediate implants possible?

There are two key conditions that have to be met to make an immediate implant possible:

• The bone around the failing tooth must be intact;
• The gum and surrounding area must be infection free.

At the initial consult appointment, Dr. Salloum will perform an intraoral examination and order a 3D CBCT to determine if you are a candidate for immediate dental implant placement.

Using this advanced imaging technology, doctors can evaluate your bone volume, gum, and implant placement virtually.  This will improve the success rate of immediate tooth replacement significantly.

If both these conditions are met, then it is possible to carefully extract the root and immediately put an implant directly into the tooth socket.  If the implant is sufficiently secure in the bone we can also put the titanium post in place and put a temporary crown on top. This treatment means that the patient can literally come to the clinic with a failed tooth and leave a short while later with a new implant tooth in place.

If you have just lost your tooth you need to act quickly

If you have just lost a tooth (for example, as a result of a sporting injury) it may well be possible to put an implant tooth in immediately. You should act quickly though: it only takes a couple of days for the gum to grow down into the socket – and this will make it difficult to put an immediate implant in place.