Over 35 years of Implant Excellence

WELCOME to the Scottish Dental Implant Centre, now located in LUBIJU, a facility based in Edinburgh, dedicated to providing patients with solutions to missing teeth or loose dentures.

The Scottish Dental Implant Centre is based centrally in Edinburgh accepting referrals from throughout the UK as well as providing postgradaute training to dentists wishing to develop their skills in this area. 

Our aim is to provide you with the ideal solution to missing teeth that does not involve using other teeth for support. Utilising implant technology, missing teeth and loose dentures can safely be made a distant memory. 
 

What are they?

A dental implant is essentially a substitute for a natural root and commonly it is screw or cylinder shaped. Each implant is placed into a socket carefully drilled at the precise location of the intended tooth. If an implant has a screw-thread on its outer surface it can be screwed into position and if it does not, it is usually tapped into place. The main aim during installation of any implant is to achieve immediate close contact with the surrounding bone. This creates an initial stability, which over time is steadily enhanced by further growth of bone into microscopic roughnesses on the implant surface.

Using the most advanced dental technology, dental implants not only look perfectly natural but they leave you with a secure new tooth, healthily bonded with your own bone tissue.

 

 

A dental implant is an exact replica of a natural tooth as it replaces both the crown and root. It is made of porcelain with a metal core. The secret lies in the small titanium body that is inserted as an artificial tooth root into the jaw. Within a few months, the living bone grows around the titanium body forming a permanent secure bond, just like a healthy tooth root.

Then a metal post is fixed onto the bonded titanium body and the replacement porcelain tooth, or crown, is attached to the post. The result: a perfectly natural-looking tooth.