Treatments

Implants are the centre of Dr Majed's practice. What follows is what the process actually involves.

Consultation. Every case starts with a long conversation. A 3D scan of your jaw, a review of your medical history, an honest look at the surrounding teeth and gums, and a real discussion of what you want to be able to do that you can't do now. Most of the case is decided here — at the desk with the scan up, not at the chair.

Planning. The plan is built before anything is touched. Where the implant goes, how it sits in relation to the bone available, what the final tooth needs to do, how the bite will work once it's restored. If a graft is needed, that's planned in. If a different solution would serve you better than implants, you'll hear that here too.

Placement. The implant — a titanium post, in plain English — is placed in the bone where the tooth used to be. The procedure itself is straightforward; most patients are surprised at how undramatic it is. Healing takes between two and six months depending on bone quality and the rest of what's happening in the mouth. During that time you wear a temporary if it's a visible tooth.

Restoration. Once the implant has integrated with the bone, the crown is fitted — the visible tooth-shaped piece you actually chew with. It's matched to the colour and contour of the teeth around it, scanned and milled to fit precisely.

Follow-through. This is the part that doesn't appear in most clinics' marketing. The hygiene appointments, the cleaning around it, the long-term check-ins — that's what makes the difference between an implant that lasts ten years and one that lasts thirty. Done well together, it lasts longer.

Invisalign is a sequence of clear, removable trays that move your teeth into position gradually. Each tray is worn for a week or two, then swapped for the next in the sequence. Most adult cases finish inside six to eighteen months, depending on what's being corrected.

Dr Majed plans every case from a 3D scan of your bite. You'll see a simulation of your end result before you commit — used as a planning tool, not a sales tool. If the result the simulation shows isn't worth the effort, he'll say so.

The honest part: the trays only work if you wear them. Most cases need them in for around twenty-two hours a day. People who treat them like something I'll do when I remember get patchy results and blame the treatment. People who wear them properly get the result the simulation showed.

Dr Majed's diploma in implantology was preceded by a strong foundation in oral surgery — the surgical work that supports implant placement, but also the work that comes before it: removing teeth that are beyond saving, removing teeth that are blocking other treatment, removing wisdom teeth that are causing problems.

Most extractions are routine. Some are surgical — a tooth that's broken below the gum line, an impacted wisdom tooth, a root that's been left behind from a previous extraction. These need planning and surgical access; they're done under local anaesthetic with sedation available where appropriate.

The honest part: a tooth being saved isn't always the right call. Some teeth are better out than in. If a tooth has been root-canalled twice, has a crack running down the root, or is sitting in a bone pocket that's lost most of its support, the long-term odds of keeping it healthy are low. In those cases, planning the replacement (an implant, a bridge, sometimes nothing at all) starts with planning the extraction first.