Dental Implant for Teeth Replacement.

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Your teeth are designed to last a lifetime but sometimes they don’t.

Replacing missing teeth is important to your general health and to the health of your other teeth. Not only do you lose chewing ability when a tooth is lost, but unreplaced teeth can cause other teeth to be lost, tipped or crowded and create subsequent problems. Also, there are obvious problems of poor appearance and loss of self esteem caused by one or more missing teeth especially on the front teeth.

There are options for replacing missing teeth ; Bridges, dentures and implants.

Dental implants should always be considered as the first option to replace a failing or missing tooth. Replacement of missing teeth with implants has been used for more than 50 years and as recognized as an effective treatment choice. Treatment prognosis is considered more predictable than traditional bridgeworks and removable dentures.
Implants may be the right choice for anyone missing teeth due to injury, disease or decay. They are especially practical for patients who can no longer wear removable dentures.

Implant patients are of all age and it can be determined if you are a good candidate after a careful evaluation of your dental and medical history.
It is important for patients to have enough bone to support the implants. If you do not have enough bone, there are many safe and effective ways to correct bone deficiency and grow certain amount of bone.


Treatment time can vary greatly depending on your needs.

Classical Two Step Procedure

First Surgery
The implant site is prepared. The selected size of implant is placed. Gum tissue is sutured over the implant. The implant takes 3-4 months to fuse with bone.
Second surgery
The implant is uncovered and the appropriate abutment is attached to the implant. A mold of the abutment is taken and sent to the lab for the fabrication of the implant crown. For certain types of implants, second surgery to uncover the implant is not required.

Immediate Implant Placement

When the tooth has to be extracted, and the implant is a choice of treatment for the substitution of the tooth, immediate placement of implant into extracted site is recommended.

When implants are placed into the socket immediately after extraction, osseointegration process of implants speeds up as our body naturally fills the gap between the extraction socket and the implant with bone.

After extraction, we would wait 3-6 months for the extraction socket to be filled with bone, and then proceed with the implant surgery. The immediate placement of implants eliminates this waiting period. However, if the tooth is infected, immediate dental implant placement is not advisable.

Same day Implants and Teeth

In this technique, a failed tooth is removed, an implant Is placed and a temporary crown is immediately placed to avoid the “toothless look” that some patients are afraid of.

This procedure is not for everyone, though.
In order to do this procedure, certain criteria have to be met. There has to be adequate bone, a large enough implant needs to be placed, and the implant once placed has to show sufficient initial stability. And more importantly, the temporary crown has to be adjusted so that no forces are placed on it during teeth function in all directions. Meeting these criteria allows the bone to grow around the implant and a permanent crown can be placed after 9-12 weeks.

Dr.Gina Sohn - The Best Cosmetic Dentist in Seoul Korea / Smile Makeover with Dental Implants.

Dr.Gina ...., the Smile Artist !!!

With Dr.Gina's artistic senses, you will be smiling with new confidence.

We are focused on Cosmetic Dentistry including Orthodontic Braces, Invisalign & Invisible braces,Veneers & Lumineers, Dental Implants and Teeth whitening. We strive to deliver the highest level of  dental technology in order to help our patients to achieve the smiles they have been desiring.

We are  proud to design a World Class Smile for you. Please, find us on our FACEBOOK page ( Dr.Gina Sohn - Cosmetic Dentist inSeoul ) and see if any of our smile designs will suit your needs.

We are conveniently located in the center of the city, in Yongsan / Itaewon area, right next to Yongsan US. Military base ( 2 min walk from Base Gate 13 / Visitor's Gate ) and a few steps to Subway Ichon station(Line 4, station #430).  

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Single Implant Tooth for the front tooth ~.
We found him a great looking smile back !!!






Dental Implants for the two missing premolars ~.








Single Implant for the nice lady ~.







Single Dental Implant ~ .






Single Implant tooth replacement for a missing premolar.

Two Dental Implant Teeth  ~.
They are blending well with her own teeth !







Implants for the 4 front teeth ~ .















Single Dental Implant ~.








Two Implants for the front teeth ~.








Single Implant Tooth ~.
He has waited for this for 15 years !







Single Implant Crown for a lower front tooth ~ .
It's hard to tell from the rest of his own teeth..., right ? ^_^






Two Dental Implant for a grandpa ~ .






Two Implant Teeth ~ .






Two Implants ~ .







Two Dental Implants for the missing front teeth ~
Patients had Braces done in Canada and came to our office hoping to have the two empty spaces of two congenitally missing laterals filled.
They were replaced with implants.
The surgery had been done 3 months earlier.
Patient is planning to get Zoom teeth whitening. ~






3 Single Implants for a middle aged lady ~




Smile Makeover with two front implants ~ .






Two Dental Implants ~ .
Patient is from the U.S. with her husband stationed in Yongsan, Seoul.
She lost two teeth a while ago and wanted to have her smile back to normal before her marriage.
Two implants were successfully placed.
Since She is on Tricare Dental Program, she paid only 50 % of the full fee.





Smile Makeover with Implants ~
We couldn't complete the entire treatment since she had to leave Korea. But, her new smile still looks good enough. !





Smile back for a grandpa with 4 implants ~ .






7 Implant teeth for the lower jaw ~
The patient is , now,off the denture that she's been wearing for 10+ years ^^

Socket preservation, Bone Grafting, Sinus Lift

Dr.Gina ...., the Smile Artist !!!

With Dr.Gina's artistic senses, you will be smiling with new confidence.

We are focused on Cosmetic Dentistry including Orthodontic Braces, Invisalign & Invisible braces,Veneers & Lumineers, Dental Implants and Teeth whitening. We strive to deliver the highest level of  dental technology in order to help our patients to achieve the smiles they have been desiring.

We are  proud to design a World Class Smile for you. Please, find us on our FACEBOOK page ( Dr.Gina Sohn - Cosmetic Dentist inSeoul ) and see if any of our smile designs will suit your needs.

We are conveniently located in the center of the city, in Yongsan / Itaewon area, right next to Yongsan US. Military base ( 2 min walk from Base Gate 13 / Visitor's Gate ) and a few steps to Subway Ichon station(Line 4, station #430).  

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http://www.drginasohn.com

Email - askdrsohn@gmail.com
Tel 02-553-7512/ Overseas +82-2-553-7512

The success of dental implants depends on whether there is a sufficient volume of healthy bone at the recipient site at the time of implant placement. After tooth extraction, the alveolar ridge will commonly decrease in volume and change morphologically. If bone resorption is significant enough, then placement of an implant may become extremely challenging.

Recent advances in bone grafting materials and techniques allow us to place implants in sites that were considered compromised in the past.

Bone graft

Today, we have the ability to grow bone where needed. This not only gives us the opportunity to place implants of proper length and width, it also gives us a chance to restore functionality and aesthetic appearance.

The graft material can be either an autograft (your own bone), an allograft (bone from other human beings; disease free immune frees), a xenograft (from other species), an alloplast (Synthetic bone), or combination thereof.

Your own bone is taken from the jaw, hip or tibia (below the knee). Special membranes may be utilized to protect the bone graft and encourage bone regeneration.

Bone preservation after tooth extraction

Tooth extraction sockets normally heal without any significant difficulties. However, bone naturally grows into the socket and reduces in height and width during healing process. Bone resorption is most often a concern in areas where the amount of bone was minimal before extraction or in the esthetic zone since soft tissue contours follow hard tissue contours. The eventual shrinkage of alveolar bone results in lost bone contour and poor esthetics.Thus, preserving the existing bone during tooth removal is critical to ensure successful osseointegration of dental implants.

Atraumatic Tooth Removal

Avoiding bone loss during extraction can help preserve alveolar bone. It may eliminate the need for bone graft later.
The anterior maxillary area is at particular risk because the bone plates are thin and subject to trauma during extraction. Some situations make tooth removal extremely difficult, including the brittle root canal treated teeth, the severely dilacerated teeth, and the fractured tooth with little coronal portion to grasp. However, proper instrumentation and technique will allow for the best possible result.

Socket preservation

The extraction socket can heal uneventfully if the surrounding bone is thick, tooth removal has been atraumatic. However, extraction is always followed by bone resoprtion and bone will be lost in height and width. This resorption process will continue for the rest of a patient’s life unless either a bone graft or dental implant is placed.

Researchers report that filling the socket with a bone graft along with a barrier membrane immediately after extraction significantly reduces the amount of bone resoprtion.

A barrier membrane excludes the epithelial cells that invade the socket during healing process and thereby keeps as much space to be filled with bone as possible.
The use of a bone graft alone results in some preservation of alveolar height and width but less than with a barrier membrane.
The use of a barrier membrane plus a bone replacement graft has been shown to be superior to a bone graft or barrier membrane alone.

Sinus Lift

The maxillary sinuses are behind your cheeks and on top of the upper teeth. These are air-filled spaces that everyone has. Often the roots of the natural upper teeth extend up into the maxillary sinuses. With age and tooth loss, the upper jawbone shrinks and the sinus enlarges. When these upper teeth are removed, there is often just a thin wall of bone separating the maxillary sinus and the mouth. This often makes a patient a poor implant candidate. Dental implants need bone to hold them in place. In order to increase bone height, the base of sinus is elevated and filled with bone graft material. And it’s called a sinus lift.

Crestal Approach
The sinus is entered from the alveolar ridge( where teeth existed). A pilot hole is created through the bone reaching 1-2 mm short from the sinus floor and the hole is expanded to the size of implant to be placed. With an ostetome or a water balloon, the thin, left-over sinus floor wall is fractured. Then the sinus membrane is raised, bone grafting materials are filled, and implants are placed. This technique is rather simple and less invasive than the lateral window approach.

Lateral Window Approach
The lateral wall of the sinus is exposed. A bony window is created. The sinus membrane is then gently lifted upward and bone graft material is inserted into the floor of the sinus.

If enough bone is available between the upper jaw ridge and the bottom of the sinus to stabilize the implants well, implants can be placed at the same time.

If not enough bone is available, the graft will have to mature for several months. Once the bone becomes part of the patient’s jaw, then dental implants can be inserted and stabilized in this new sinus bone.

Alveolar Ridge Expansion

This is a technique used to restore the width of lost bone when the jaw ridge gets too thin to place conventional implants. In this procedure, the bony ridge of the jaw is literally expanded by mechanical means. Bone graft material is placed and implants can be placed at the same time or wait until the graft matures for a few months before placing the implant.

Vertical Ridge Augmentation

It is a procedure to improve the height of the alveolar ridge.

Block bone grafts are harvested from the symphysis or the ramus and grafted onto the site where implants to be placed. After several months of maturation, dental implants are placed into this newly brown bone. This technique can be used for predictable bone augmentation up to 3- 6 mm in horizontal and vertical dimensions.

Another way to increase bone height is placing implants into their final position first. The implant should stick out of the bone with a few mm of threads exposed. Then, fill the area with particulate grafts to the height of the implant surfaces. And cover the entire site with a stiff barrier membrane that can keep the shape of newly augmented bone throughout the maturation period.