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Dental Implants

What Are Dental Implants?

Dental implants are replacement tooth roots. Implants provide a strong foundation for fixed (permanent) or removable replacement teeth that are made to match your natural teeth.

What Are the Advantages of Dental Implants?

There are many advantages to dental implants, including:

  • Improved appearance. Dental implants look and feel like your own teeth. And because they are designed to fuse with bone, they become permanent.
  • Improved speech. With poor-fitting dentures, the teeth can slip within the mouth causing you to mumble or slur your words. Dental implants allow you to speak without the worry that your teeth might slip.
  • Improved comfort. Because they become part of you, implants eliminate the discomfort of removable dentures.
  • Easier eating. Sliding dentures can make chewing difficult. Dental implants function like your own teeth, allowing you to eat your favorite foods with confidence and without pain.
  • Improved self-esteem. Dental implants can give you back your smile, and help you feel better about yourself.
  • Improved oral health. Dental implants don't require reducing other teeth, as a tooth-supported bridge does. Because nearby teeth are not altered to support the implant, more of your own teeth are left intact, improving your long-term oral health. Individual implants also allow easier access between teeth, improving oral hygiene.
  • Durability. Implants are very durable and will last many years. With good care, many implants last a lifetime.
  • Convenience. Removable dentures are just that; removable. Dental implants eliminate the embarrassing inconvenience of removing your dentures, as well as the need for messy adhesives to keep your dentures in place.

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Dental X-Rays: When to Get Them »

What Types of Problems Can X-Rays Detect?

In adults, X-ray films can be used to:

  • Show areas of decay that may not be visible with an oral examination, especially small areas of decay between teeth
  • Identify decay occurring beneath an existing filling
  • Reveal bone loss that accompanies gum disease
  • Reveal changes in the bone or in the root canal resulting from infection
  • Assist in the preparation of tooth implants, braces, dentures, or other dental procedures
  • Reveal abscesses (an infection at the root of a tooth or between the gum and a tooth)
  • Reveal other developmental abnormalities, such as cysts and some types of tumors

In children, dental X-ray films are used to:

  • Watch for decay
  • Determine if there is enough space in the mouth to fit all incoming teeth
  • Determine if p...

Emergency Contact for Bossier City

  • In case of Emergency, call 911

Nearby Bossier City Hospitals *

Brentwood Hospital
1006 Highland Ave
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)678-7500

Doctors' Hospital of Shreveport
1130 Louisiana Ave
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)227-1211

Overton Brooks VA Medical Center
510 E Stoner Ave
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)221-8411

Promise Hospital of Shreveport
1800 Irving Pl
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)425-4096

CHRISTUS Schumpert St Mary Place
One Saint Mary Pl
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)681-4500

CHRISTUS Schumpert Sutton Children's Medical Center
One Saint Mary Pl
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)424-5437

Dubuis Hospital Shreveport
One Saint Mary Pl
Shreveport, LA 71101
(318)678-1000

Shriners Hospital Shreveport
3100 Samford Ave
Shreveport, LA 71103
(318)222-5704

LSU Health Sciences Center
1541 Kings Hwy
Shreveport, LA 71103
(318)675-5000

Willis-Knighton Bossier Health Center
2400 Hospital Dr
Bossier City, LA 71111
(318)212-7000

LifeCare Hospitals of Shreveport North
2550 Kings Hwy
Shreveport, LA 71103
(318)212-6860

Willis-Knighton Medical Center
2600 Greenwood Rd
Shreveport, LA 71103
(318)212-4000

Cornerstone Hospital of Bossier City
4900 Medical Dr
Bossier City, LA 71112
(318)747-9500

LifeCare Hospitals of Shreveport Pierremont
8001 Youree Dr
Shreveport, LA 71115
(318)212-3200

Willis-Knighton Pierremont Health Center
8001 Youree Dr
Shreveport, LA 71115
(318)212-3000

CHRISTUS Schumpert Highland Hospital
1453 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop
Shreveport, LA 71105
(318)681-5000

LifeCare Hospitals of Shreveport South
9320 Linwood Ave
Shreveport, LA 71106
(318)688-8504

Willis Knighton South
2510 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop
Shreveport, LA 71118
(318)212-5000

Minden Medical Center
1 Medical Plz
Minden, LA 71055
(318)377-2321

North Caddo Medical Center
1000 S Spruce St
Vivian, LA 71082
(318)375-3235

DeSoto Regional Health System
207 Jefferson St
Mansfield, LA 71052
(318)872-4610

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