Blog - Dental Implants

Living with a mouthful of missing teeth isn’t ideal, especially if it’s painful or embarrassing. Fortunately, our team at NOLA Dentures and General Dentistry offers permanent tooth-replacement options, like dental implants. 

Our dental implants replace missing teeth with beautiful prosthetics that look, feel, and function just like natural teeth. Dr. Russell Schafer designs each patient’s smile with their preferences, oral health ...

Dental implants are a great treatment option for many patients to replace a missing tooth.  A dental implant is an artificial titanium tooth root that is placed and the bone and either holds in a prosthesis which can ...

After I place an implant in my patient’s mouth, I expect it to last for a long time.  However, many patients think that implants should last forever no matter what happens.  While implants are predictable and work well for many people, they can still break and they can still develop infections. While this might seem like an obvious point, ...

    Dental implants have been true game changers in dentistry.  Before implants became mainstream treatment, often times dentists would try to save every single tooth with all techniques available.  Multiple different gum and root canal treatments would be done with the hopes of holding on to a tooth for as long as possible.  With the advent of dental implants though, ...

When a person has to go through the process of losing either all or the majority of their teeth, it is a traumatic experience. Losing teeth is not just loss of a body party but may also be a loss of identity as teeth are an important part of our social identity. Thankfully, it is easy to get a smile ...

Sometimes despite everyone’s best efforts, a tooth is lost.  Maybe a cavity got so deep that the tooth could no longer be fixed predictably or perhaps it broke from trauma due to clenching and grinding.  If it is a front tooth, most people will opt for a removable partial denture at least temporarily whereas if it is a single back ...

Unfortunately there comes a time when I can no longer save a tooth. Either the infection is so bad that it will be difficult to fix predictably or the tooth is so broken that there is nothing left to fix.  In these cases, I will remove the tooth, and we will discuss how to replace it. Often the best way ...

One of the most common procedures that I do is replace missing teeth through prosthetics. I replace teeth for one of three reasons: better chewing, better speaking, or better smiles. I find that for most of my patients the most important one of the three is having a better smile, but often people do not appreciate how important ...

    Unfortunately, sometimes my patients lose a tooth.  The tooth either gets lost because of cavities, gum disease, or trauma. The worst teeth that get lost are the ones where the patient has tried to do everything to save the tooth from root canals and crowns to gum surgery and despite all this effort the tooth just does not survive. ...

Many people miss the importance of a complete smile until they face tooth loss or dental extractions. Since we treat a number of patients with missing teeth at NOLA Dentures and General Dentistry, we intimately understand the impact tooth loss can have on your quality of life.

Feeling Self-Conscious about Your Smile

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Dentures are a double edge sword in that I can make them look good as teeth but it’s difficult to make them feel as good as teeth.  Most people who have never worn dentures don’t understand this fully, but I’m sure any of my readers who are currently wearing a set of dentures know what I’m talking about.  The reason ...