After tooth loss, decay, or damage, there’s a lot you may miss, like chewing your favorite foods or smiling in pictures.
While missing teeth can be a stressful problem, they’re also a common one. Our dentist, Dr. Thiago Morelli , has a solution.
He places dental implants at our trusted Raleigh, NC , practice. Contact us to explore your candidacy.
Dr. Morelli creates lasting smiles using dental implants. Typically made from titanium, dental implants are posts that act as artificial tooth roots. They connect custom crowns, bridges, or dentures. Because titanium dental implants are placed in your jaw, you never have to worry about your dental restoration’s stability.
We believe that excellent results start with excellent materials. The team at our periodontist’s office in Raleigh, NC , uses premium dental implants from trusted providers like Dentsply Sirona, Neodent, and BioHorizons.
Each type comes with its own benefits. For example, Straumann implants are made in a wide range of materials, and Nobel Biocare is recognized as a pioneer of dental implants. Dr. Morelli can guide you through each option, so you can find a dental implant that fits your needs.
Our implant-supported restorations are also made from nothing but the best. We craft crowns, bridges, and dentures from materials like porcelain and zirconia, which are both prized for their durability and lifelike aesthetics. The restorations you receive from our Raleigh team will be as close to natural teeth as you can get.
Implants are one of the most versatile treatments offered by our dentist. That’s because implants can support multiple kinds of dental restorations, like:
From decay to other damage, if you have a single tooth in need of a lifelike dental restoration, an implant can keep it secure.
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Our dentist can explain each option during your dental consultation. To learn more about implants
and your candidacy, contact our Raleigh, NC, practice or call:
As a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Dentistry, Dr. Morelli is used to making complex dental procedures seem simple. His work on implants has also been published, making him an authority even established dentists trust to inform their care.
Dental implants are widely available, even from general dentists. Here are just a few
reasons why Dr. Morelli is an outstanding choice if you want to rehabilitate your smile with implants:
Dr. Morelli is a periodontist, which means he has more education and training when it comes to the health of your gums and jaw. This advanced understanding of the foundation of your smile can allow you to experience the maximum benefits of dental implants.
Patients are often concerned about discomfort during dental implant placement and subsequent treatments. Dr. Morelli’s advanced techniques, use of local anesthesia, and optional sedation treatments minimize discomfort at every stage of your journey to a rehabilitated smile.
Since fixed implant-supported dentures can’t be thoroughly cleaned using everyday at-home techniques Dr. Morelli provides biannual cleanings, which is rare among periodontal practices. This can protect your oral health and help your implants provide many years of valuable benefits.
Many dentists do not place implants—they only restore them. For patients, this means the first implant consultation is followed up by referrals to outside professionals and additional waiting time before treatment can start. This isn’t an issue at Dr. Morelli ‘s Raleigh practice. As a trained periodontist and experienced implant dentist, he can handle every step of the dental implant timeline himself.
This includes preparatory work that can be complex, like bone grafts and sinus lifts. Our goal is to streamline your care plan so it’s easy, efficient, and gets you the results you want faster.
To establish implant candidacy, our Raleigh, NC, dentistry practice uses advanced technology to scan your natural teeth, gums, and jawbone, including intra-oral scanning and cone beam computed tomography. We also capture measurements to create a surgical guide and a lifelike restoration.
Depending on your needs, Dr. Morelli may also recommend supplementary dental procedures. These might include extracting a tooth, periodontal care, bone grafting – all of which can be completed in-office. In some cases, you may also need time to heal.
When the day of your dental implant placement arrives, you’ll return to our Raleigh office. Although it’s not necessary for everyone, to make treatment as comfortable as possible we offer oral conscious sedation to take beforehand, or you may be calmed using IV sedation.
Once you’re fully at ease, Dr. Morelli will create a small incision in your gums. He’ll also make space in the bone below. Then, he’ll carefully place your titanium implant using a custom 3-D printed surgical guide for precise results.
An abutment, or connector piece, will be placed on top of each implant. Dr. Morelli may attach your abutment and restoration on the day of your implant procedure, or he may attach them after you heal.
The reason why dental implants are so successful long-term is due to osseointegration. This process allows your implant to fuse with your gum and jawbone, so that it remains securely in place for decades to come. Osseointegration takes about three to six months.
We send all scans to a trusted local lab in Durham for restoration fabrication. When they’re ready, Dr. Morelli will attach your denture, crown, or bridge to the abutments, completing your beautiful new smile.
Dr. Morelli has the training, experience, and true compassion you need in order to experience the very best and longest-lasting benefits of dental implant placement. If you have been suffering with a compromised smile or loose, unreliable dentures, now is the time to reach out to a doctor who can help you begin a new phase of comfort and confidence in your life. Write to us or give us a call to request your consultation :
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Our dentistry practice offers scaling and root planing, a conservative treatment option for gum disease. This procedure uses dental tools to remove tartar from above and below the gumline, encouraging healthy reattachment of gum tissues to the teeth
Certain patients qualify for osseous surgery, a dentistry treatment for moderate-to-severe gum disease. This minor surgery removes the bacteria from periodontal pockets and reduces the depths of the pockets, so bacteria can no longer accumulate there.
If a patient’s gums have receded due to periodontal disease, a gum graft can reinforce them. We can take healthy tissue from another area of the mouth and transplant it to the affected area to cover exposed tooth roots.
Our periodontist can use laser therapy to eliminate infected gum tissue. Laser therapy is unique because it targets diseased tissue while leaving healthy tissue unharmed. We offer both LANAP® and LAPIP™.
If your gum disease has progressed to the point where you have missing teeth, our periodontist can place dental implants. A dentist can then place implant-supported restorations like crowns, bridges, and dentures to restore any degree of tooth loss.
One of the major reasons that North Carolina patients come to our periodontics experts is the fact that our skilled doctors use cutting-edge laser technology, like LANAP and LAPIP .
LANAP, which stands for Laser-Assisted New Attachment Procedure, offers many significant advantages over now-outdated periodontal care technologies. For one, LANAP is extremely safe, as the laser naturally cauterizes the treatment site and sterilizes the gum area. Compared to traditional gum surgery options, this laser results in less blood loss, swelling, pain, and more.
Dental implants have revolutionized the replacement of missing teeth. While this treatment is truly transformative, some patients will develop infection around the implants, called peri-implantitis. To better treat these patients without the need for surgical repair, our NC practice has invested in LAPIP (Laser Assisted Peri-Implant Procedure), a laser similar to LANAP but specialized for implant care.
Maintaining your periodontal health can prevent gum disease issues from spiraling and endangering your oral and overall health. It also dodges the need for more invasive – and expensive – treatments later on. Unfortunately, some patients avoid periodontal care because of concerns about cost.
To make our specialized treatments more affordable, our Raleigh practice offers monthly membership plans. We provide three different tiers of memberships, each of which offers crucial benefits you can take advantage of. As an example of what you can receive, the middle-tier plan includes biannual periodontal maintenance, X-rays, oral cancer screenings, antimicrobial treatment, and 10% off any additional treatments.
If you and at least one other family member sign up, we offer 5% of your chosen package’s total price.
“I chose Dr Morelli and his team, because of the excellent reviews his office has received. All reviews were spot on! Lovely office, friendly and caring staff and Dr. Morelli is a very impressive periodontist.”
– Lindsay Hornthal, 5-Star Google Review, 2023
After Dr. Morelli has completed the active phase of periodontal treatment, your periodontal disease will be under control. He will provide you with a personalized maintenance program to keep your gums healthy. Maintenance therapy is an ongoing program designed to prevent disease in the gum tissues and bone supporting your teeth. Your program will include:
Brushing and flossing your teeth will go a long way in preventing gum disease. Be sure to follow all guidelines given to you by Dr. Morelli to keep bacteria growth to a minimum.
Regular checkups with both your dentist and your periodontist will help keep your gum disease from progressing and recurring. Be sure to attend appointments as recommended.
Following all instructions provided by Dr. Morelli will give you an excellent chance of keeping your teeth for a lifetime.
To prevent the recurrence of periodontal disease, a major cause of tooth loss in adults, carefully and conscientiously follow Dr. Morelli’s maintenance program. Protecting your periodontal health through preventive maintenance has great benefits for you, including:
With Gum Contouring
Gum disease can cause overgrown gum tissue to develop, smothering your smile and leading to an appearance you may not be satisfied with. We effectively address this issue with gum contouring – a cosmetic treatment we can perform to reshape gums to better reveal teeth and make uneven gum lines more balanced and symmetrical.
Appointments for periodontal maintenance do not replace regular dental checkups. If your dentist detects gum disease, they may refer you to Dr. Morelli for specialized care. If Dr. Morelli detects tooth decay during a maintenance visit, you will be referred to your general dentist for treatment. While Dr. Morelli is a specialist who treats periodontal concerns, your general dentist is primarily responsible for your overall dental health.
Your dentist and Dr. Morelli will work together as a team to provide you with the best possible care. They will combine their experience to formulate a maintenance plan for you and keep each other informed about your progress. Although a periodontist may see you periodically for maintenance therapy, you will still need to regularly visit your general dentist.
The interval between your supportive periodontal care visits might be scheduled every few weeks to every six months. Everyone’s situation is different. The frequency of your supportive care visits will be influenced by your periodontal disease, the treatment you’ve received, your response to treatment, your personal commitment to your care, and other factors.
Your visit to our Raleigh, NC, periodontal office may include a discussion of any changes in your health history, examination of your mouth tissues for abnormal changes, measurement of the depth of pockets around your teeth, removal of bacterial plaque and tartar, analysis on the way your teeth fit together when you bite, and more.
Established in 2018, our practice is led by Thiago Morelli, DDS, MS. His professional affiliations and distinctions include:
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