Loose Lower Front Teeth, Sillim Station Dental Clinic, Insurance Anssurge Implant for Patients 65 and Older, Minimal Placement, Lower Cost, Faster Completion

Treatment period: 2025.04.28 ~ 2025.09.28

Nice to meet you,

I’m Director Park Jeong-gi of Seoul Remember Dental Clinic at Sillim Station.

Natural teeth cannot regenerate on their own once they are damaged.

So it is important to seek treatment and respond as soon as possible,

and if tooth function has been lost due to aging or periodontal disease, with the teeth becoming loose and extraction becoming inevitable, implant treatment can be an alternative.

Because it has the major advantage of restoring chewing ability and esthetics to a level similar to natural teeth, the country has now expanded insurance coverage as well.

For National Health Insurance subscribers aged 65 or older, up to two implants per lifetime can be treated with a 30% out-of-pocket cost,

and today, at Sillim Station Dental Clinic, I will explain a few additional points while looking at a related case.

1. The lower front teeth are loose.

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This case involves a situation where there is mobility of grade 3 or higher in the mandibular anterior region.

Looking closely, beneath the area previously restored with a prosthesis, the gums are swollen and red, and along with gingival recession, the margins of the prosthesis are visible.

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There is also a lot of tartar buildup, and the fact that there is bleeding with just a light touch indicates inflammation in that area.

Mobility on clinical examination means that there are problems in the alveolar bone, which cannot be seen with the naked eye.

2. X-ray diagnosis

At Sillim Station Dental Clinic, for patients with symptoms, we take additional X-rays for an accurate diagnosis.

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In this case as well, we took an X-ray to check why the lower front teeth were loose and what the bone condition was like,

and found that the three lower front teeth were connected with a bridge, with bone loss observed underneath.

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Looking more closely at the periapical image, it can be said to be a very serious situation, with the bone already melted away all the way to the root tips.

Also, because the inflammation is so extensive, there is a high possibility that it is affecting a wider area, and if left as is, the extent of bone loss will inevitably increase further.

That would make surgery and recovery more difficult and complicated, so prompt intervention by the medical team is needed.

3. Insurance Anssurge implant

At Sillim Station Dental Clinic, if health insurance can be applied according to the patient’s age, we guide patients to use it first.

That is because it can reduce the burden of treatment costs for the patient, even if only a little.

In this case, since insurance coverage had not yet been used, we decided to extract the loose and contaminated lower teeth, and place only two covered Anssurge implants in those spaces, then fill the entire area with an upper prosthesis.

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Instead of the brands we commonly know, such as Osstem, Dentium, and Megagen, we placed Anssurge, which belongs to the Straumann Group, a company with a large share of the global implant market.

Because it has high strength and excellent biocompatibility, Sillim Station Dental Clinic uses it well in cases like this, where bone quality is poor, and it can provide significant help.

It has a thread design that makes it easier to preserve bone around the fixture, and thanks to its excellent accumulated technology, its success rate is also high.

However, since it is a foreign-made product headquartered in Switzerland, it is a little more expensive than domestic products.

Still, with the 30% out-of-pocket insurance coverage applied, the price difference is not significant.

4. The upper prosthesis was made as a 5-unit bridge

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At Sillim Station Dental Clinic, once the fixture has firmly integrated, we place the final prosthesis on top.

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Because this was an area where the bone condition was very poor, we intentionally used a foreign-made product rather than a domestic one for placement,

but fortunately, bone filled in well around the area, and despite there having been a lot of gum inflammation, recovery was very good, so the upper prosthesis was connected precisely.

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Before, the empty space between the lower teeth was noticeable, and the dark margins near the prosthesis and cervical area, as well as the red gums, were quite bothersome.

Now, it has been restored neatly in line with the gum line.

The fact that the financial burden was significantly reduced through health insurance benefits was also a key reason for the patient’s higher satisfaction.

An insurance implant is not limited to just one product. There are many options that can provide better results depending on your oral condition, so please decide after 충분한 consultation with your attending doctor.

Thank you for reading.

This has been Director Park Jeong-gi of Seoul Remember Dental Clinic at Sillim Station.