Dental Implants in La Jolla, San Diego

At the Scripps Center for Dental Care in La Jolla, we offer the most advanced techniques in tooth replacement, called dental implants, to improve and restore your smile. Dental implants are titanium tooth roots that are permanently integrated in a patient’s jaw to support natural-looking replacement teeth.

Our practice likes to offer the most current technology when it comes to tooth replacement and that is dental implants. Dental implants, in a simple way, are just a titanium root form that takes the place of your original root. On top of that dental implant we can place a crown. Dental implants are not a new treatment. They were developed in Europe in the 1950’s and they were approved for the, for use in the United States in 1982. What we’re doing in our practice, we’re offering sort of the next evolution of dental implants where we make a dental scan or a digital scan of the patient’s bone structure in their mouth and then we’re able to digitally decide where the implant gets placed and then fabricate a guide for the surgeon so that implant could get placed in that exact spot with very little trauma. One of the most popular uses is for stabilizing dentures. People who have had dentures for years and have learned to cope with them find that the dentures slide around and sometimes drop down at inopportune moments and implants can stabilize those so that they can feel much more stable and more like natural teeth.