If the root can still be saved, we usually start there. An implant is for when the tooth is already gone or honestly cannot be kept.
Patients arrive with a “hole” and ask for an implant immediately. It is often cheaper and more physiological to restore your own tooth with a crown after root-canal treatment. A layered zirconia crown is about UAH 11,750; the first Osstem implant stage about UAH 16,850, plus a later crown on the implant. Compare plans, not two price-list rows.
Nothing on this page is a diagnosis or a treatment plan. The dentist names the cause and the fee after an exam. Severe pain, facial swelling, or bleeding that will not stop — call; do not wait for an online slot.
The root is sealed or can be retreated, enough walls remain, there is no crack under the gum, bone still holds the tooth. After canals the tooth is brittle — a crown protects it, it is not “for Instagram”. A microscope helps find canals; it does not replace the crown.
A vertical crack, a destroyed root, repeat flare-ups after several retreatments, a tooth that will no longer hold a crown. Then extraction and an implant (immediate or after healing) is not “the dentist wants a bigger fee” — it is so you do not pay twice.
Do not cut down neighbouring healthy teeth for a bridge “because it is faster” if a single crown or implant solves it. Bridges have their indications. Do not place an implant into untreated gum inflammation.
A radiograph, sometimes CBCT, an assessment of canals and walls, estimates for both paths if both are real. You choose after numbers and timelines, not after the fear “they will pull it and that is it”.
A saved natural tooth is often cheaper over a year or two. If the root is doomed, an implant now is cheaper than a crown that comes off with the root in six months.
Years, if hygiene and the bite are in order. Nobody honest names a year-count “for everyone”: this is biology, not a household appliance.
Yes, if the chance of keeping the tooth is not zero. That is what we do. A zero chance is better said before we drill, not after.
With the right gum volume and shade — yes, to the person across the table. That takes a gum stage and a prosthodontist, not only “the screw went in”.
Dental Story is a dental clinic in Lviv at 10 Sumska St.; tel. +380 68 232 3838; email info@dentalstory.ua.
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