Statistics On The Dental Implant Costs: Old Techniques Versus The Breakthrough ‘all-on-4’

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In the pursuit of the best aesthetic and functional solution to edentulism (not having a single original adult tooth left) and near edentulism, patients can often become concerned over dental implant cost. First of all, dental implants do offer the most sophisticated, comfortable and long-term solution to rampant tooth loss. But owing to the skill and resources that goes into their fabrication, as well as the advanced education and training of the professionals that place them, dental implant costs are not inexpensive. Much like you can expect to pay more for an iPhone 4 versus a Nokia 3210, so too can patients expect greater dental implant costs than for traditional removable dentures. And just like an iPhone 4 is at the very cutting edge of modern technological advancement, so too are dental implants.
The Impact of Newer Placement Protocol on Dental Implant Costs
As the years march on, the development of newer and more advantageous dental implant products, medical technology and surgical ...
... placement protocols enable skilled and qualified dentists to provide patients with immediate and far more comfortable, convenient and long-term results. While one might expect greater dental implant costs to come hand-in-hand with a more sophisticated implant protocol, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
The ‘All-on-4’ technique was developed by European implantologist, Dr. Paulo Malo, in collaboration with Nobel Biocare; one of the world’s leading manufacturers of dental implants and associated products. The ingenious surgical protocol laid out by the ‘All-on-4’ not only bypasses some of the greatest challenges facing traditional dental implant techniques – such as the need for bone grafting in patients presenting with advanced jaw bone deterioration - but it also comes with a vast array of benefits and advantages that all work together to substantially lower the dental implant costs of complete oral rehabilitation! In this three-part article series we shall be exploring the various factors that all contribute to the lower dental implant costs, which translate – for straight-forward patient cases – to savings of $25,000 and as much as $45,000 for more complex cases!
Lower Dental Implant Costs with the ‘All-on-4’: Fewer Dental Implants
The first and most immediate difference between the ‘All-on-4’ and traditional dental implant protocol lies in the name of the technique itself. With traditional techniques, patients missing all or most of their teeth frequently require as many as 20 dental implants to get a full and healthy-looking smile back! When you consider that a single dental implant costs in the region of $4,000, the price for oral rehabilitation can become quite exorbitant. With the ‘All-on-4’ on the other hand, only four dental implants are required per jaw; hence the name of the protocol. A skilled and qualified dentist uses these implants to provide anchorage for a customized and non-removable prosthetic dental bridge, which is carefully and skillfully fabricated to exactly resemble - in function, aesthetics and feel - a natural set of teeth.
With only 8 implants in total, as opposed to 20, the dental implants cost with the ‘All-on-4’ is substantially lowered. But there are more savings to be made in one’s journey to oral rehabilitation… stay tuned for the next article installment to find out what these dental implant costs savings are!