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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 Hickory

  • In case of Emergency, call 911

Nearby Hickory Hospitals *

Frye Regional Medical Center
420 N Center St
Hickory, NC 28601
(828)322-6070

Catawba Valley Medical Center
810 Fairgrove Church Rd SE
Hickory, NC 28602
(828)326-3000

Valdese General Hospital
720 Malcolm Blvd
Rutherford College, NC 28671
(828)874-2251

Frye Regional Medical Center Alexander Campus
326 Third St SW
Taylorsville, NC 28681
(828)635-4000

Caldwell Memorial Hospital
321 Mulberry St SW
Lenoir, NC 28645
(828)757-5100

Grace Hospital
2201 S Sterling St
Morganton, NC 28655
(828)580-5000

Broughton Hospital
1000 S Sterling St
Morganton, NC 28655
(828)433-2111

Carolinas Medical Center Lincoln
200 Gamble Dr
Lincolnton, NC 28092
(704)735-3071

Iredell Memorial Hospital
557 Brookdale Dr
Statesville, NC 28687
(704)873-5661

Davis Regional Medical Center
218 Old Mocksville Rd
Statesville, NC 28625
(704)873-0281

Lake Norman Regional Medical Center
171 Fairview Rd
Mooresville, NC 28117
(704)660-4000

Wilkes Regional Medical Center
1370 West D St
North Wilkesboro, NC 28659
(336)651-8100

Cleveland Regional Medical Center
201 E Grover St
Shelby, NC 28150
(704)487-3000

Kings Mountain Hospital
706 W Kings St
Kings Mountain, NC 28086
(704)739-3601

Gaston Memorial Hospital
2525 Court Dr
Gastonia, NC 28054
(704)834-2000

Blowing Rock Hospital
418 Chestnut Dr
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
(828)295-3136

Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville
10030 Gilead Rd
Huntersville, NC 28078
(704)316-4000

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