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Immediate loading is not a better implant. It is the same implant, placed in a jaw solid enough to hold it perfectly still while fixed teeth sit on top of it from day one. The distinction decides whether you qualify.
Published 2026-04-07 · Reviewed with clinic surgeons
The implant is placed and a fixed provisional restoration is attached the same day. You leave with teeth that are screwed into place rather than a removable plate or a gap.
What it does not mean is faster healing. Osseointegration still takes three to four months, and the permanent restoration still follows on a second visit. The change is entirely in what you wear during that period.
An implant integrates only if the bone around it stays undisturbed. Movement above roughly 100 micrometres — a tenth of a millimetre — causes fibrous tissue to form instead of bone, and the implant fails.
Primary stability is the mechanical grip achieved at the moment of placement, before any biology happens. It is measured rather than estimated:
The provisional is fixed, but the implants beneath it are not yet integrated. A strict soft diet for the first six to eight weeks is the price of the convenience, and it is not negotiable.
Practically: no crusty bread, nothing needing to be torn, no nuts, no ice, nothing hard on the front teeth. Patients who ignore this are the ones who lose implants at week three, when everything feels fine.
There is also a design element people do not expect. The provisional is a prototype — you live with the shape, length and bite for three months, and any adjustments learned during that period are built into the permanent bridge.
It cannot be determined from photographs, and it cannot be confirmed by email. A CBCT scan establishes bone volume and density, and even then the final decision is made during surgery, when the actual torque readings come in.
This is why an honest plan says immediate loading is intended, with a stated fallback if stability falls short. Any clinic guaranteeing same-day teeth before seeing a scan is guaranteeing something it cannot know.
Once integrated, yes — they are the same implants. Long-term survival rates are comparable when case selection is correct. The risk is concentrated in the first weeks.
Sometimes, particularly at the front of the lower jaw where bone is dense. Single implants are harder candidates than full arches, because there is nothing to splint them to.
Generally somewhat more than conventional placement, because of the additional provisional restoration and the planning involved.
Conventional placement with a healing period, or grafting first and implants later. It adds months, but the outcome once healed is the same.
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