Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation: Easing the Fear of Implant Treatment

Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation Implant Treatment

Easing the Fear

Natural teeth play many roles beyond simply chewing food, so it has been important to keep them healthy for a long time.

Among them, molars require stronger chewing force than other teeth, but because they are located deep inside the mouth, they have been difficult to manage carefully.

Since toothbrushes do not reach them well and they are highly exposed to cavities and various periodontal diseases, if a problem arose, it was best to receive treatment quickly.

Natural teeth do not have the ability to recover on their own, even from a minor cavity, so if a problematic tooth is left untreated, the symptoms can gradually worsen.

Recently, when teeth are lost due to unexpected accidents or periodontal disease, implant treatment has been used to replace the function of natural teeth.

Unlike dentures and bridges, this method directly places an artificial tooth root into the jawbone, so it can provide strong fixation.

However, the implant process is considered a highly difficult procedure, and after carefully examining each patient’s different characteristics, an appropriate plan had to be established.

Also, because the outcome can vary depending on the clinician’s skill and know-how, it was best to visit a clinic where experienced medical staff were present.

At Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation, implant treatment was being performed directly by a dentist with a doctoral degree in dentistry from Yonsei University, so that a more satisfying result could be expected.

Based on extensive clinical experience, the medical staff were also carefully assessing age, overall health, and other factors to provide patient-specific care.

In particular, an important part of implant treatment is the current amount of jawbone, and three-dimensional diagnosis of areas that are difficult to identify with the naked eye had to be prioritized.

At Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation, before implant placement, precision diagnostic equipment such as 3D CT was used to carefully check the patient’s alveolar bone condition and nerve position.

By carefully identifying the condition of the jawbone, the proper angle and position for implant placement, and the nerve position, it was possible to reduce aftereffects and shorten the procedure time.

If a tooth had been left missing for a long period of time, or if there was a congenital lack of jawbone, the diagnosis could determine that the amount of alveolar bone was insufficient.

If implant placement were carried out carelessly when the alveolar bone condition was poor or insufficient, the fixture could become loose during use, or re-implantation might be needed later.

Therefore, if the amount of jawbone was judged to be insufficient, it was possible to consider a preliminary treatment that supplements the deficient alveolar bone using various bone graft materials.

Implants have various advantages, but unlike natural teeth, they do not have nerves, so it is important to continue systematic care even after placement.

If inflammation occurred in the gum and jawbone around the artificial tooth due to neglecting care, pain might be barely felt, allowing side effects to go unnoticed.

If managed at an early stage, recovery is possible, but inflammation that is unintentionally left untreated can ultimately cause the artificial tooth to fall out early.

At Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation, to help expect a longer lifespan for prosthetics, detailed follow-up care for each patient was provided through a treatment guarantee system even after the procedure.

Also, to ensure excellent fixation over a long period, only clinically proven genuine implant materials were used.

However, because of the procedure itself, implants are among the treatments that many patients find physically and psychologically burdensome.

At Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation, conscious sedation sleep treatment was performed to ease vague fear of the dental clinic and allow patients to undergo the procedure in a comfortable state.

Unlike general anesthesia, conscious sedation is a method in which the patient is guided into a comfortable, lightly asleep state while still maintaining some level of awareness.

Because awareness is maintained and the patient can still respond to external stimuli, spontaneous breathing is possible without wearing a breathing guidance device.

In addition, since the patient can respond to simple communication with the medical staff and instructions such as raising a hand, highly stable conscious sedation sleep treatment was possible.

Even so, after the procedure ended, most of the memories of the process were not retained due to the amnesic effect, allowing the fear of the dental clinic to be overcome.

At Shinchon Dental Clinic Recommendation, to continue safe sleep treatment, a conscious sedation manual and patient monitoring equipment were being used.

Because the appropriate amount of sedative medication is adjusted based on the patient’s sleep-like state, which is checked in real time, emergency situations such as overly deep sleep could be prevented.

Conscious sedation can be applied to various dental procedures such as implants and extraction of multiple wisdom teeth, so please keep this in mind.