Replace One Missing Tooth with a Single Dental Implant

Most adults who are missing one tooth — or about to lose one — are candidates. What matters is the health of the site and whether there is enough bone to hold the implant, and both are checked on a free 3D scan at your consultation.

Replacing a tooth sooner rather than later helps: the bone under a missing tooth shrinks with time. If a health condition or a medication could affect healing, Dr. Katz reviews it with you before anything is planned — no surprises after the fact.

It happens often, especially when a tooth has been missing a while — and it is not automatically a dead end. Bone grafting can rebuild the site so the implant has a solid foundation to hold onto.

Grafting does add a step, and sometimes healing time, before placement. Whether your case needs it is decided from your 3D scan, and if it does, it is priced into your written quote before you commit to anything.

In phases, not in a day. First, the free consultation and 3D scan. Then the placement visit, where the implant post is set into the jaw. The implant then typically integrates with the bone over a few months — that bond is what makes an implant strong. Finally, the permanent crown is attached.

In many front-tooth cases we can place a temporary so you never go without a tooth. Your written plan lays out your timeline before treatment starts.

A bridge fills the gap by anchoring to the teeth on either side — which means those healthy teeth are ground down to hold it, and the bone under the gap keeps shrinking because nothing replaces the root.

An implant stands on its own: the neighboring teeth stay untouched, the bone underneath is preserved, and you brush and floss it like a natural tooth. A bridge can still be the right answer in some cases — your consultation compares both options for your mouth, with exact costs for each.

Most single-implant patients are surprised at how manageable it is, and most return to normal activity the next day with ordinary pain relief.

If dental visits make you anxious, sedation is available — both oral and IV sedation are offered right here in our office. Just tell us what you need when you schedule.

Our published price for dental implants is $2,985 — 1 implant + crown — with financing at 73$/month.

What can change the final figure is your case: whether a failing tooth still needs to come out, whether bone grafting is needed, and the crown itself. That is why your free consultation ends with an exact written quote for your mouth — no hidden fees and no obligation. Financing is available through Cherry, Proceed Finance and Lending Club.

Implants are the longest-lasting tooth replacement we offer. Published long-term studies report pooled implant survival of roughly 95% after 10 to 25 years.

Survival still depends on care. Brush and floss every day, and keep your regular cleanings and checkups so the gum and bone around the implant stay healthy.

A single implant is precision work, and experience matters. Dr. Phillip Katz has been placing dental implants since 2008 — over 10,000 of them. He is a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI, 2009), was hand-picked by Dr. Frank Spear to be one of Spear Education's original 100 Visiting Faculty Mentors, and is a Supervising Instructor at the California Implant Institute.

Your implant is planned on a 3D scan, and every step of your treatment happens in the same Pickerington office, just outside Columbus.

See more patient results in our smile gallery.