Dental Implants in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego

Precision Implants

Dr. Spalenka uses a CT scan together with an implant planning system to plan your dental implant so it is perfectly placed.

Once your implant has been placed, he completes your tooth with a precisely designed, high-quality crown. These crowns are durable, perform like your natural teeth and can be placed in one visit with no temporaries needed.

Candidates for Dental Implants

There are various issues that can make it difficult to place a dental implant, such as certain medical conditions or medications, pregnancy or a young person whose jaw is not yet fully developed. Dr. Spalenka implements a technique to help with bone growth so that dental implants can easily be put in.

After years of teeth being missing, there may be too little bone in which to place the implant. Dr. Spalenka solves this with bone grafting.

Dr. Spalenka can assess the different factors to establish the best course of treatment for you.

What is a Dental Implant?

A dental implant is a bio-compatible, man-made substitute for missing tooth roots. It is usually made of a space-age alloy of titanium. Implants come in various shapes and sizes, chosen to best fit your mouth and jaw. Most are cylinders placed into bone and allowed to heal undisturbed while bone heals around them, locking them in like an anchor. After a few months, the implants are used as a foundation for replacing the missing teeth.



Dental implants restore lost chewing ability, improve appearance, end embarrassment, and give real self-confidence to patients who need them. Implants replace one, many, or all of your teeth. They are a real breakthrough.

The Benefits of Dental Implant

• Replaces missing tooth roots.
• Dental implants deter the bone loss that will occur when a tooth is lost. The titanium post fuses with the bone, encouraging bone growth.
• Dental implants have fewer associated problems that dentures
• When teeth are lost, the bone which held the roots of the teeth starts to dissolve, and so removable dentures may slip or cause sores on the gums.
• Dental Implants have a longer lifespan of up to 25 years, as compared to 7-10 years for removable dentures and 5 years for fixed bridges
• When you lose teeth, you inevitably lose mass in your jaw. This affects the overall skeletal structure of your face, changing your profile, and causing thin lips, drooping muscles, jowls or pointed chin.
• Bone loss in the jaw also affects the gums and ridges in your mouth, as well as the muscles and nerves in and around the mouth.
• These conditions may only be avoided through use of dental implants, because implants may halt and even reverse the bone loss that results from losing teeth.

Dr. Spalenka strongly recommends the use of dental implants wherever appropriate. They are fixed and permanent, and don’t require replacements. Even in cases where he places dentures, he recommends using implants to support them.

To make an appointment, call us at 858-487-9444 or request an appointment online.