When should I have dental implants done?
Clearly this will differ for every patient and on a case-by-case basis. Implants may be placed at the very time a tooth is taken out (immediate replacement).
This has the benefit in some cases of maintaining the bone that was surrounding the tooth. Alternatively a clinician may decide to wait a period of months after extraction.
If teeth had been missing from a number of years than the jawbone can disappear or resorb and in some extreme cases this can make implant placement very difficult and grafting bone from the hip or from other sources may be considered.
