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“The harder you brush the better”, “You just inherit bad teeth and that’s all”, “brush your teeth after every meal”. These and ideas like these tend to stick in the collective subconscious and can harm the public a lot.

While implantation is an invasive surgery, it is a very quick and painless surgery, especially considering other forms of oral surgery. The dental surgeon will first remove the gum, and set the places s/he intends to place the dental implants. The drilling is done with a special instrument, which can be set to the right pressure, and under local anaesthetic, you will only feel a slight vibration.

A Swedish professor Dr Branemark discovered some 50 years ago that titanium based metal alloys do not get rejected by the human body; on the contrary they trigger what is called osseointegration, meaning the bone grows on to the surface of the dental implant.