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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 Smyrna

  • In case of Emergency, call 911

Nearby Smyrna Hospitals *

StoneCrest Medical Center
200 StoneCrest Blvd
Smyrna, TN 37167
(615)768-2000

Alvin C York Veterans Affairs Medical Center
3400 Lebanon Pike
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
(615)867-6000

Middle Tennessee Medical Center
400 N Highland Ave
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
(615)396-4100

Southern Hills Medical Center
391 Wallace Rd
Nashville, TN 37211
(615)781-4000

Summit Medical Center
5655 Frist Blvd
Hermitage, TN 37076
(615)316-3000

Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute
221 Stewart Ferry Pike
Nashville, TN 37214
(615)902-7400

Williamson Medical Center
4321 S Carothers Pkwy
Franklin, TN 37067
(615)435-5000

Nashville Rehabilitation Hospital
1034 W Eastland Ave
Nashville, TN 37206
(615)226-4330

University Medical Center
1411 Baddour Pkwy
Lebanon, TN 37087
(615)444-8262

Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
2201 Children's Way
Nashville, TN 37212
(615)320-7600

Psychiatric Hospital At Vanderbilt
1601 23rd Ave S
Nashville, TN 37212
(615)320-7770

Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
2200 Children's Way
Nashville, TN 37232
(615)936-1000

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1211 Medical Center Dr
Nashville, TN 37212
(615)322-5000

Nashville VA Medical Center
1310 24th Ave S
Nashville, TN 37212
(615)327-4751

Baptist Hospital
2000 Church St
Nashville, TN 37236
(615)284-5555

McFarland Specialty Hospital
500 Park Ave
Lebanon, TN 37087
(615)449-0500

Centennial Medical Center
2300 Patterson St
Nashville, TN 37203
(615)342-1000

Parthenon Pavilion
2401 Parman Pl
Nashville, TN 37203
(615)342-1400

Metropolitan Nashville General Hospital
1818 Albion St
Nashville, TN 37208
(615)341-4000

Saint Thomas Hospital
4220 Harding Rd
Nashville, TN 37205
(615)222-2111

Skyline Madison Campus
500 Hospital Dr
Madison, TN 37115
(615)865-0300

Skyline Medical Center
3441 Dickerson Pike
Nashville, TN 37207
(615)769-2000

Bordeaux Long Term Care
1414 County Hospital Rd
Nashville, TN 37218
(615)862-7000

Kindred Hospital Nashville
1412 County Hospital Rd
Nashville, TN 37218
(615)687-2600

Hendersonville Medical Center
355 New Shackle Island Rd
Hendersonville, TN 37075
(615)264-4000

Stones River Hospital
324 Doolittle Rd
Woodbury, TN 37190
(615)563-4001

Heritage Medical Center
2835 Hwy 231 N
Shelbyville, TN 37160
(931)685-5433

Sumner Regional Medical Center
555 Hartsville Pike
Gallatin, TN 37066
(615)452-4210

Trousdale Medical Center
500 Church St
Hartsville, TN 37074
(615)374-2221

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