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Implants

Dental implants are artificial tooth replacements that were first developed half a century ago by a Swedish scientist named Per-Ingvar Branemark. Implants arose from the patient’s need to secure loose-fitting dentures. Since the advent of the implant, engineering and enhancements to the implant have enabled dentists to expand the implant’s usefulness, including the replacement of missing or lost teeth. Today, implant techniques provide a wide range of tooth replacement solutions including:

Implant As a Treatment Option

If the missing tooth space has no surrounding teeth, Dr. Davila may decide an implant is the most appropriate treatment choice or option.

Post Implant Care

Although proper oral hygiene is always recommended for maintaining good dental health, it is especially important when a patient has received a dental implant. Bacteria can attack sensitive areas in the mouth when teeth and gums are not properly cleaned, thus causing gums to swell and jaw bones to gradually recede. Recession of the jawbone will weaken implants and eventually make it necessary for the implant to be removed. Patients are advised to visit their dentists at least twice a year to ensure the health of their teeth and implants. Dental implants can last for decades when given proper care.

Dr. Davila has been placing and restoring dental implants for close to fifteen years. He serves as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Florida College of Dentistry Graduate Prosthodontic Program where he trains prosthodontic residents in the surgical placement and implant restoration. In the last few years, dental implants have become an increasingly large part of his practice. Dr. Davila not only places but also restores the implants. This speeds and simplifies the whole process and ensures that it can be performed more economically.

Dr. Davila is firmly convinced that in the next few years, most teeth that are missing or lost will be replaced by implant supported restorations rather than removable appliances, adhesive or conventional bridges. It is also becoming more and more obvious that it is necessary to diagnose and intercept situations which will lead to progressive breakdown of the bony housing which supports the teeth. Such situations would include deep fractures, furcation involvements, root caries and failing root canals, post and core restorations. Interceptive implant therapy can often be simpler, more predictable and more cost effective than endless rounds of conventional restorative and periodontal therapy.

Although Dr. Davila has worked with a wide variety of dental implant systems, he now works almost exclusively with the Camlog Dental Implant design. Indeed, he is the national lecturer for this system and within the last year has spoken on their behalf at the national meetings. He also trains dentists to use the system in Tampa, Florida. The Camlog system is among the most modern of the major implant systems and has all the advances of modern research and design built in. These features make the placement and restoration process simpler, faster and much more reliable and predictable than is the case with conventional systems.