Before pictures

After pictures

Case #1 - This woman is missing one lateral incisor.

Click on the photo to see a close up picture of her smile.

Case #1 - With a skillfully done dental implant by Dr. Chal, you can't tell it's a false tooth.

Click on the photo to see a close up picture of her smile.

There are many complications in making a truly cosmetic dental implant. If the surgery is being done by an oral surgeon or periodontist and not the cosmetic dentist, there needs to be excellent communication between the surgeon and the cosmetic dentist about the exact placement of the abutment. The appearance of a case can be ruined if the angle, position, or size of the implant abutment is incorrect. Then, when the crown is placed over the abutment, the shading, translucency and contours need to be expertly handled to get a perfectly natural-looking tooth. Look at the dental implant below, again done by Dr. Arthur Chal of Phoenix, Arizona.

Here is the surgically placed dental implant abutment. Because this person didn't want to have the adjoining teeth straightened or treated in any way, excellent artistic sense and careful visualization of the final result are needed by the surgeon who is surgically placing the abutment.

In this dental implant "after" picture, you can see that the replaced tooth blends in so naturally that no one can tell it isn't a real tooth. This is the look the patient desired. This case was extra difficult because the inclinations of the roots of the adjacent teeth are such as to leave little room for surgical error in placing the abutment.

These are pictures of cosmetic dental implants by Phoenix dentist Dr. Arthur Chal.