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Tooth Replacements – Dental Implants, Bridges and Dentures

As you walk through our dental clinic door in Belmore, you may be coming to us physically, but our goal is to greet you where you are. Our dental care follows several tracks, one of which will be right for you. Though our hope for everyone is to achieve and preserve solid oral health, we are skilled in restoring your smile in cases of tooth damage. But when damage results in tooth loss, we specialise in numerous tooth replacement options as well.

The Dentists @ Belmore team offers one huge advantage for tooth replacements. We are proud to have a trained prosthetist on staff. John has studied intensively in the area of dentures and dental implants, so you know his recommendations are as leading-edge and backed by expert training as possible.

Why It's Important to Replace a Missing Tooth

First and foremost, our dental team wants you to know that missing teeth are common in Australia and nothing of which to be embarrassed. The Australian Dental Association reports that Australian adults are, on average, missing more than four teeth. Living without those teeth would be like the Bulldogs playing without any backs. Your chances of a win a seriously diminished.

In specific terms, you may suffer a variety of adverse effects from a missing tooth, such as:

Inability to eat healthy foods that require more chewing
Changes in speech or facial structure
Adjacent teeth shift towards the gap
Adjacent teeth loosening
Diminishing jawbone health

These impacts all progress together, leading to worsening misalignments, bite problems, jaw problems, cavities, and potentially ongoing tooth loss.

Full Service for Full Dentures, Partial Dentures, and Dental Bridges

When you're missing a large number or even all your natural teeth, John may recommend dentures as your best tooth-replacement option. Though they come in too many varieties to list, dentures are distinguished by their structure. First, a foundation framework called a plate to which we attach the replacement teeth. A complete denture replaces all upper or lower teeth and is usually removable for cleaning and maintenance.

Partial dentures, also known as dental bridges, are an excellent choice when replacing several adjoining teeth, and a complete set of dentures would be overkill. These dental appliances come in various forms and frameworks. In many cases, your full or partial denture can be made from acrylic or a combination of materials. But, again, you can rely on our dental prosthetist's expertise to help design the best replacement type and execute the plan successfully.

Dental Implants Tooth Replacement Options

Another option that has emerged as the gold standard for tooth replacement is the dental implant. This replacement is built on an artificial tooth root, also known as an implant screw, surgically placed into your jaw. Dental implants have many advantages, such as:

Bone Health – Because your artificial root becomes integrated into your bone, it stimulates regeneration
Versatility – This foundation supports restorations from a single tooth up to implant-retained dentures
Durability – Being attached to your jawbone makes your implant's permanence second only to a natural tooth

The Dentists @ Belmore are full-service providers of dental implants. We can plan, place and provide the restorations to complete your dental implant solution.

Learn More about Our Tooth Replacement Dentists

For more information about tooth implants or to arrange an appointment, please call our dental practice today.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is your cancellation policy?

Here at The Dentists @ Belmore, we try our best to respect your time and we expect our patients to do the same. Arriving late (more than 15 minutes), short notice cancellations and failure to attend leads to disruptions to our patients and staff.

As a small privately-owned dental practice, we are financially strained when patients miss appointments. We are not a large corporation and we do not treat our patients as numbers.

We like to give our patients the full scope of our knowledge and care, and we like each patient experience to be personalised, as dental care should be. We aim to provide you with an exceptional service at an affordable cost. Chair time lost to no shows or short notice cancellations impacts our ability to run our small business.

It is in ours and our patients’ best interest that we keep lost chair time to a minimum.

We ask our patients to give at least 24 hour notice before cancellation or rescheduling. It is very difficult to fill in these appointments, so please let us know well ahead of time if you need to reschedule.

Holding your appointment time means turning away other patients in urgent need of dental care. Therefore, any missed or short notice cancellations will attract a cancellation fee of $50.

Our cancellation policy is as follows:

Our patients are required to pay a $50 holding fee to secure their appointment.
The holding fee will be taken off the final cost of your appointment.
Cancelling an appointment with more than 24 hour notice is absolutely fine. We can accommodate for this.
Failing to attend, rescheduling, or cancelling an appointment with less than 24 hours notice leads to a $50 cancellation fee, which means forfeiting the $50 holding deposit.
If you wish to re-book after cancelling within 24 hours, you will be required to pay another $50 holding fee.
We always send out an SMS reminder or we call our patients well in advance to confirm the appointment.
We reserve the right to ask for the cost of treatment upfront before making another appointment. This is a last resort option only if there is a recurring cancellation pattern.
New patients who fail to attend or cancel with less than 24 hours notice on two consecutive occasions will not be rebooked.

For long appointments such as whitening or root canals, we will require a deposit at the time of booking.

Meet Our Doctor:

Dr Ibrahim Al-Salti Principal Dentist & Owner
BDent (Hons) | BPharm (Hons)

Dr Ibrahim is the principal dentist at The Dentists @ Belmore. He is a graduate of The University of Sydney Schools of Dentistry and Pharmacy.

Since graduation, Dr Ibrahim held different positions across NSW in both metropolitan and rural settings. During that time, he also undertook extensive further training both locally and abroad in locations spanning the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Dr Ibrahim still keeps up with the latest in research and treatments to offer his patients leading care.

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