Smile Tomorrow Dental Implants

1 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.025 Smiles Tomorrow is a technique that we have developed here in our practice 2 00:00:10.225 --> 00:00:13.480 for what we call immediately loading dental implants. 3 00:00:13.510 --> 00:00:16.909 So for patients who are about to lose their teeth 4 00:00:16.910 --> 00:00:20.080 because of gum disease or decay or a combination of both, 5 00:00:20.100 --> 00:00:25.700 one of their biggest concerns are how long will I have to be without teeth? 6 00:00:25.730 --> 00:00:28.480 How long will I have to wear a denture? 7 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:34.571 How long will I have to not feel comfortable having secure permanent teeth? 8 00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:37.025 So what Smiles Tomorrow does is 9 00:00:37.026 --> 00:00:40.314 it allows us when the case is properly planned, 10 00:00:40.986 --> 00:00:45.209 to place about six dental implants in the arch, 11 00:00:45.409 --> 00:00:49.360 regardless of how many teeth are removed on the upper. 12 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:51.200 By placing those six dental implants, 13 00:00:51.230 --> 00:00:55.760 we then can take impressions the same day that those implants are placed 14 00:00:55.790 --> 00:00:59.399 and utilizing our on site dental laboratory, fabricate teeth 15 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:03.959 that the patient can then have permanently placed in their mouth by the next morning, 16 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:07.120 the patient is prepped, the patient has implants placed. 17 00:01:07.150 --> 00:01:11.696 We then take the impressions patient, then goes home to rest that night, 18 00:01:11.896 --> 00:01:14.520 they come in the next day, teeth are placed. 19 00:01:14.550 --> 00:01:16.195 When we say Smiles Tomorrow 20 00:01:16.196 --> 00:01:18.800 we are basically giving patients back their smiles 21 00:01:18.801 --> 00:01:21.514 or improving their smiles directly the next day. 22 00:01:21.927 --> 00:01:24.629 Great candidate for Smiles Tomorrow is a patient 23 00:01:24.630 --> 00:01:29.629 who unfortunately needs to lose all of their upper or lower teeth or both. 24 00:01:30.090 --> 00:01:32.703 And for patients like that, in the past, 25 00:01:32.704 --> 00:01:36.757 the solution to at least temporarily, would be to wear a denture, 26 00:01:36.758 --> 00:01:39.357 which for many patients is just not 27 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:42.440 an option that they're interested in at this point in time. 28 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:44.870 When we came up with the concept of Smiles Tomorrow, 29 00:01:45.070 --> 00:01:48.800 it was predominantly for patients who were losing teeth with dental implants. 30 00:01:48.830 --> 00:01:50.629 But the concept of Smiles Tomorrow, 31 00:01:50.630 --> 00:01:53.754 because of our unique on-site dental laboratory, 32 00:01:53.755 --> 00:01:56.840 we've kind of expanded it into other areas of dentistry. 33 00:01:56.870 --> 00:02:00.200 So well, not rather than doing Smiles Tomorrow for dental implants, 34 00:02:00.201 --> 00:02:04.314 we can do a smiles tomorrow technique even with porcelain veneers, 35 00:02:04.315 --> 00:02:07.443 we can prep the case in one day 36 00:02:08.050 --> 00:02:12.880 take your impressions and have you return the next day for a Smile Tomorrow.