This treatment needs 2 trips to Costa Rica, this happens in the first trip:
6 nights in Costa Rica
- Monday Morning / Initial Consultation and Diagnosis
Once you decide to undergo the treatment, the first step is a thorough diagnosis that involves taking CT scans and pictures of your mouth. These help us understand your unique situation and formulate the most suitable treatment plan. Dr. Freer will project your X-rays in the consulting room and will explain how we will do the treatment in your case; during this appointment, the doctor will answer all your questions.
- Monday Afternoon or Tuesday Morning / Surgery & Implant Stability
After the diagnosis, our team of specialists will perform the surgery. This involves placing 4 to 6 titanium implants in your upper and lower arches (8 to 12 dental implants in total). The surgery is performed under sedation to ensure your comfort. Afterwards, the stability of the implants is crucial; if your bone structure is solid and healthy, we have high chances of achieving immediate loading of the dental implants. This means we put the implants to work immediately. During this surgery, all teeth extractions that you currently need, are also done without pain.
- Tuesday /Titanium Metal Hybrid Prosthesis Design
Once the surgery is complete and assuming immediate loading is achieved (as it is for 95% of our patients), we take an impression of the implants. While you rest, our dental lab begins designing your new titanium metal bar frame. This metal frame significantly reduces the risk of fracture and helps the implants work together more effectively.
- Wednesday /Try-In of Prosthesis and Adjustments
We will try in the metal bar structure and the acrylic set of teeth over it. You’ll be able to choose the color and size of your new teeth. Any modifications you want can be done with the help of our dental technicians until you are satisfied with your new smile. Once you and the dentist are happy with the aesthetics and function of the prosthesis, we instruct our dental lab to finish the process.
- Thursday /Receiving Your New Teeth
On the third day after your surgery, you will receive your new set of acrylic teeth (Upper and lower full arches), completing your transformation and giving you a brand-new smile.
- Friday /Final Check-Up
The prosthesis has been fixed the day before, and now the patient will return for a last check-up appointment to see how the prostheses feel, fit, and eventually adjust to the bite.
After your first trip, your process of osseointegration begins, your implants will become part of your bone structure and then it will be safe for you to receive the permanent zirconium prosthesis. After 4 months we are ready to design your new permanent zirconium smile.
Your second and last trip to Costa Rica is very important, the design and test of your new permanent smile is something that we take seriously; it is necessary that you spend 10 nights in Costa Rica, you will only have 4 appointments since most of the job happens inside the lab, we want to make sure that you come back home with your dream smile and that it lasts for the rest of your life.
10 nights in Costa Rica:
- (Monday Morning) Initial Consultationand Diagnosis
During your interview with the Doctor, he will analyze your X-Rays and analyze the state of the implants that were already installed during your first trip, where we will place your new Zirconia smile.
- (Tuesday & First Week) Laboratory Work of Smile
Our state-of-the-art in-house laboratory will create your customized permanent teeth that will not only restore your smile but is also individualized and carefully planned.
- (Friday, first week) Aesthetic Test
The final adjustments are made to ensure the smile that the patient wants, how the prostheses feel, fit, and eventually adjust the bite, the patient can enter in our laboratory and along with the doctor make modifications to the digital design of the smile.
- (Tuesday 2nd Week) Receiving Your New Teeth
On this day, you will receive your new set of zirconium teeth, completing your transformation, and giving you a brand-new smile.
- Final Check-Up (Wednesday 2nd Week)
The permanent zirconium smile is fixed the day before, once we have confirmed that the bridges and/or arch fit perfectly, they will be securely attached to your implants, giving you a full set of new and functional teeth.