Dental implant surgery requires prior detailed planning. Study of vital structures in the bone. This is done with the help of X-rays. Some times dental implant can be done immediately after extraction and in same cases we have to wait for few month for bone formation. Dental implant procedure is usually done under local anaesthesia. Flap is raised and a pilot hole is made in the bone. Before placing implant in the bone drilling of bone done in several separate steps. Then the implant is screwed into proper place. Special instruments and machines are used for placing Dental implant.

The maxillary sinuses are behind your cheeks and on top of the upper teeth. Some of the roots of the natural upper teeth extend up into the maxillary sinuses. When these upper teeth are removed, there is often just a thin wall of bone separating the maxillary sinus and the mouth. Dental implants need bone to hold them in place. When the sinus wall is very thin, it is impossible to place dental implants in this bone.

There is a solution and it’s called a sinus graft or sinus lift graft. The dental implant surgeon enters the sinus from where the upper teeth used to be. The sinus membrane is then lifted upward and donor bone is inserted into the floor of the sinus. Keep in mind that the floor of the sinus is the roof of the upper jaw. After several months of healing, the bone becomes part of the patient’s jaw and dental implants can be inserted and stabilized in this new sinus bone.

If enough bone between the upper jaw ridge and the bottom of the sinus is available to stabilize the implant well, sinus augmentations and implant placement can sometimes be performed as a single procedure. If not enough bone is available, the Sinus Augmentation will have to be performed first, then the graft will have to mature for several months, depending upon the type of graft material used. Once the graft has matured, the implants can be placed.

Dental implant is done under anaesthesia. During procedure and post operatative also it is painless.