An Implant Is A Root, Not A Tooth.

How It Is Placed.

After a 3D CT scan we plan the exact position, angle and depth digitally, then place a German-made titanium implant under local anaesthesia. Placement takes 20 to 40 minutes per implant. You feel pressure, not pain.

Unlike a bridge, no healthy neighbouring teeth are ground down. The implant also keeps the jawbone loaded, which is what stops the ridge shrinking in the years after a tooth is lost.

The Honest Day-By-Day.

• Day 0. Ice twenty minutes on, twenty off, for the first six hours. No rinsing, no spitting, no smoking, no hot drinks. Oozing is normal; flowing is not.
• Days 1-3. Swelling peaks on day two or three, not day one. Painkillers usually for two evenings. Soft, cool food. Sleep with an extra pillow.
• Days 4-14. Stitches out around day seven to ten. Desk work in two to three days, gym in a week. Chewing on that side stays off-limits until the crown is fitted.
• Months 2-3. Bone fuses to the implant surface over eight to twelve weeks. Only then is the permanent crown made.

After An Extraction: Three Windows, Not One.

An implant can go in on the same day as the extraction, six to eight weeks later, or after three to four months of full socket healing. All three are standard practice, for different situations.

• Immediate works when the socket walls are intact and there is no infection, typically a front tooth that fractured above the gum.
• Early, at six to eight weeks, lets soft tissue close over a previously infected site.
• Delayed is for sockets that lost a wall.

Immediate placement is not immediate teeth. These get confused constantly. Placement means the fixture goes into the fresh socket; loading means a temporary crown goes on the same day. You can have one without the other, and loading a fixture that turns even slightly in soft socket bone is the fastest route to failure.

Why The Name On The Box Matters.

Every implant system has its own connection geometry, abutments and tools. If a crown loosens in five years and your dentist at home cannot identify the system, the fix becomes surgery instead of a ten-minute appointment.

Established German and Swiss systems publish long-term survival data and keep components available for decades. Unbranded fixtures may have identical geometry on paper and no documented follow-up at all.

Ask for four things in writing: the brand name, the system line, the diameter and length placed, and an implant passport card. We issue that card as standard. A clinic that will not is telling you something.

What It Costs, And What Sits Inside It.

A German-made implant starts at €299. The abutment and final crown are quoted separately because the material choice is yours: monolithic zirconium from €180 per tooth. A single implant with a zirconium crown lands around €480 all in.

The same brand typically costs €1,500 to €2,500 per tooth in Western Europe and the UK, before the abutment and the crown. At our prices the brand premium costs you very little, so the brand question is academic here. In markets where an implant is €2,000, it is often where the margin hides.