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Implants · Same day
Where the bone is solid enough to hold a post firmly from the moment it goes in, same day implants can fit a temporary tooth at that first visit. It saves a separate surgical visit and avoids a visible gap. It is not available for every case, and the scan decides, not the diary.
What same day means
The phrase same day implants gets used loosely. What happens in one visit is the post going in and a temporary Implant Crown going on. The bone still needs its months to fuse, and the permanent crown is still made afterwards. Nobody places an implant and fits a final crown the same morning, whatever the advertising suggests.
The requirement for same day implants is primary stability: the post has to be gripped tightly by bone from the start, because a temporary puts load on it immediately. Where the socket is fresh and clean, that is often achievable. Where there is infection, a thin wall or soft bone, loading it early risks losing the post. Then the standard Single Tooth Implant route is safer.
The same principle scales up to a whole jaw, which is how All-on-4 Implants delivers a fixed temporary arch on the day of surgery.
How it works
The scan shows bone density and socket condition. This is the question that decides whether same day is possible at all.
Where a failing tooth is still present it comes out and the post goes into the socket at the same appointment.
A temporary tooth is made and fitted, shaped to support the gum and kept slightly out of heavy bite contact.
After integration the permanent crown is made and fitted. The temporary comes off then, not before.
The trade
Same day implants ask more of the site than a staged Single Tooth Implant. Get the assessment right and you save months with no penalty. Get it wrong and the post fails to integrate, the site has to heal, and the whole thing restarts several months behind where the conventional route would have been. That is why we would rather say no than take the chance.
You also have to treat the temporary carefully. Soft food, no biting into anything hard on that side, and no treating it as a finished tooth. Those first weeks are covered on Recovery And Aftercare, and the wider question of what can go wrong is on Implant Risks.
Related treatments
What happens when same day is not on, and how the same idea works across a whole arch.
One gap replaced without touching the teeth on either side.
Learn moreTwo or more missing teeth on separate posts or a shared bridge.
Learn moreThe visible zone, where gum shape and shade matter as much as the post.
Learn moreThe tooth on top, matched to the shade of the teeth beside it.
Learn moreCommon questions
What actually happens on the day, and who is not a candidate.
Victoria patients
Failing tooth out and the post in at the same appointment. Never had a visible gap, which mattered to me.
They said my socket was too thin for same day and I should wait. Respected being told no rather than sold yes.
Soft food for a few weeks was the only real restriction. Worth it to skip a second surgery.
The temporary shaped the gum while it healed, so the final crown sat right when it came.
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Only a scan can answer whether the bone at your site will hold a post firmly enough to load it the same day. The consultation gives you that answer, along with the conventional timeline if the honest answer is no.
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