What are you letting yourself in for?

Dental implants in St John’s Wood, with your trusty team at Aura Dental. You know you want them because nothing gives you your chew and your smile back like dental implants. But when it comes to the treatment, do you really know what you are letting yourself in for?

You’ve probably heard the stories of how dental implant surgery goes on for days and days, and uses 14 different sizes of drill to make the artificial sockets for it. Not to mention how people couldn’t eat anything but very thin soup for weeks afterwards. No wonder you are full of trepidation. Really, it’s a wonder you are even considering having dental implants in St John’s Wood. Can it really be that bad? No, of course not. Those are the myths. This is the reality:

The pain

People go on about how getting dental implants was more painful than childbirth, but the truth is that it’s no worse than getting a big filling, not even as bad as root canal therapy or an extraction. This is because we are working on your jawbone, where there are very few nerve endings, so there’s nothing much to convey feelings of pain to your brain. Getting work done on your teeth involves far more nerves. We can numb you very effectively for dental implants with a local anaesthetic.

Afterwards, you will need no more than over-the-counter painkillers to get you through the next day or 2.

The time

It does take an hour or 2 to put in dental implants and we recognise that this can seem like a lifetime in the dentist’s chair, especially if you are one of the many people who have a dental phobia. That’s why we are very happy to give you either oral or intravenous sedation. Sedation deeply relaxes you so that you float through the treatment. Indeed, if you have IV sedation, you may well doze off and not wake up until it’s all over.

The food

You do need to be on a liquid diet while your mouth heals. After that, it’s a soft food diet while the dental implants in St John’s Wood integrate with your jawbone.