Enjoy More Affordable Dental Implants in Syracuse, NY

Learning how to budget your money is a difficult lesson that often comes from life experience. When you’re a kid, any allowance you earn is often quickly spent on a candy bar or a new toy. As a teenager, things like concerts, dates, and clothes add up quickly, leaving your wallet empty. However, budgeting as an adult is a bit more complicated. Costs like bills, rent, mortgage, insurance, and even groceries build up fast, and suddenly every penny you’ve worked for needs to be spent. Replacing missing teeth may seem like just another expense you could do without. Fortunately, Brent Bradford, DDS, provides affordable dental implants that allow you to stay on budget while replacing missing teeth!

Why Replacing Missing Teeth Is a Priority

When you lose adult teeth, you don’t just lose a piece of your smile. While the top portion of your tooth, the crown, is missing, so is the bottom portion, known as the root. Tooth roots lie below the gum line, embedded into your jawbone to secure your teeth and to provide stimulation. When you chew or bite, your roots apply pressure, stimulating the bone. This function is essential for jawbone health, as without it, your bone will begin to lose mass and volume through bone resorption.

The bone deterioration process has a few unfortunate effects, including:

• Wrinkly skin: As you lose bone mass and volume, your skin begins to wrinkle and sag. You may notice issues like excessive wrinkling around your lips and sunken cheeks.
• Changing bone structure: While it’s often not noticeable at first, bone resorption causes your bone structure to change gradually. Without treatment, you may experience a drastic change in your face shape.
• Implant ineligibility: Dental implants require ample bone structure for placement. Due to bone loss, many patients are ineligible for implant treatment without additional procedures like a bone graft to rebuild lost bone.

To prevent bone resorption, you must replace your missing tooth roots, as well as your crowns. Fortunately, dental implants are placed directly in the jawbone to act as artificial tooth roots while supporting tooth restorations! With these implants in place, you can stop bone resorption in its tracks. But if implants need ample bone structure for placement, how can you use them to prevent ongoing bone loss?

Brent Bradford, DDS, is proud to offer mini dental implants as a more accessible and affordable option for patients like you!

Our Affordable Dental Implant Options

Mini dental implants are a small and sleek version of conventional dental implants. With their tiny structure, they require much less bone than their conventional counterparts! In fact, many patients ineligible for dental implants without a bone graft are eligible for mini implants, even without additional procedures.

These implants are more affordable in three important ways.

Dental implants are made of titanium, an incredibly strong, biocompatible material. With this material, your implant bonds with your bone quickly and efficiently, ensuring a strong foundation for your crown, bridge, or denture. However, mini implants have a one-piece design, unlike the multipiece structure of a conventional dental implant. This makes mini implants much less expensive, as you only have to pay for one component rather than several!

Additionally, their single-piece design makes mini implants significantly quicker to place! Conventional dental implants require multiple appointments between healing periods to place each component. In contrast, mini implants require only one placement appointment, saving you both time and money.

Without additional procedures like bone grafts, multiple appointments, and multiple components, mini implants are a much more affordable option for patients on a budget.

Making Implants Affordable at Brent Bradford, DDS

While mini dental implants are less expensive, we at Brent Bradford, DDS, understand that patients often still require financial assistance.

Unfortunately, insurance companies don’t usually cover dental implants, as they view the procedure as purely cosmetic. However, more and more are acknowledging their restorative value, covering portions of the procedure or prosthetic. The best way to know if you’re insurance plan covers dental implants is to check with your provider!

For those without help from insurance, we partner with third-party financing companies to help break your costs into manageable monthly payments. With our flexible financing options, we make dental implants affordable for all patients!

Restore Your Smile With Affordable Mini Dental Implants

Knowing where to spend your money is an important life skill about balancing priorities. At Brent Bradford, DDS, we believe that replacing missing teeth is a priority! Fortunately, we offer affordable dental implants with mini implant solutions. To restore your smile without breaking the bank, visit us in Syracuse, NY!

Book your free implant consultation today to start your journey to a beautiful smile.

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