When your bone and bite allow it, Dr. Sara places your implants and fits fixed temporary teeth within the same visit, for a single tooth or a full arch. Your final teeth follow 5 to 6 months later. It costs the same as our standard implant treatment.
"Same-day" or "teeth in a day" is the common name for immediate loading: fixing teeth onto implants right after they are placed, instead of waiting months with a gap or a removable plate. Here is exactly what that means at our clinic.
Your implants are placed, and fixed temporary teeth are attached to them before you fly home. For a single tooth that is usually the day of surgery. For a full arch, the temporary bridge is usually seated a few days after surgery, once the first swelling has settled, so it can be fitted properly.
The teeth you leave with are a healing-phase temporary, not the final result. Implants need 5 to 6 months to fuse with the bone. Your final crown or bridge is made and fitted on a second visit after that, by our in-house lab.
It works for a single missing tooth, for several, and for full-arch treatment on four to six implants (All-on-4). The rules for who qualifies are the same in each case.
Same-day loading does not cost extra. A single implant is from $1,200 all-in (implant, abutment and crown); All-on-4 is from $9,000 per arch. Your written plan shows the full price before anything starts.
A fresh implant can only carry a tooth from day one if it is held firmly enough and protected from too much force. Dr. Sara gives a first view from your photos and X-rays, checks it on the CT scan, and confirms it during surgery.
There has to be enough bone, dense enough, for the implant to be firmly anchored the moment it goes in. Where bone is thin or a graft is needed first, a staged approach is safer.
How your teeth meet matters. Heavy grinding or clenching, and some bite types, put too much load on an implant that has not healed yet. Sometimes that can be managed by adjusting the temporary; sometimes it rules same-day out.
Active gum infection needs treating first. Smoking and uncontrolled diabetes slow healing and raise the risk for any implant, and especially for an immediately loaded one.
We tell you, and explain why. You then follow the standard two-trip route on our dental implants page. Your implants still go in on the first visit; only the timing of the teeth changes.
Same-day teeth let you leave without a gap. They do not let you skip the healing.
The implants must not be loaded while they fuse. No nuts, crusts, raw vegetables, tough meat or gum. It is the one rule that protects the whole treatment.
As swelling goes down, the gums change shape, so a temporary (especially a full-arch one) can feel bulky or loose for a while. That is normal. We adjust it, and adjustments during treatment are included.
For full-arch cases, the All-on-4 page explains the temporary bridge in more detail.
Dr. Sara holds a specialist degree in Oral Implantology and Reconstructive Dentistry (UniCIEO, Bogotá, 2023) and qualified as a dentist at CES University in Medellín. She plans every case in 3D from the CT scan, places the implants herself and designs both the temporary and the final teeth.
No. It depends on your bone (the implant has to be firmly held from day one), your bite (strong grinding or certain bite types put too much load on a fresh implant) and your gum health. We assess it from your CT scan and confirm it during surgery. If it is not safe, we tell you and follow the standard staged route.
No. Same-day implants are the same price as our standard treatment: from $1,200 per tooth all-in, and All-on-4 from $9,000 per arch.
No. You leave with fixed temporary teeth. The implants need 5 to 6 months to fuse with the bone, and the final crown or bridge is fitted on a second visit after that.
Two. The first for the scan, surgery and temporary teeth; the second, 5 to 6 months later, for the final restoration.
Not yet. The temporary teeth let you smile and speak, but the implants must not be loaded while they heal. Soft, no-chew food for the healing window, following Dr. Sara's instructions.
Send recent photos or X-rays. Dr. Sara reviews them and we send back a written plan with the total cost, usually within 24 hours.
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