The Wellness17 September 2026Last reviewed 17 September 2026
Most dental implants are still in place ten years after they are fitted. A 2019 review in the Journal of Dentistry estimated that 96.4% of implants last ten years. A second calculation in the same review gave 93.2%, which the authors consider more realistic. At Dentistry by The Wellness, a single implant with its crown costs from £5,250.
A dental implant is a small post that your dentist places in your jaw to replace the root of a missing tooth.
Once the bone has healed around the implant, your dentist attaches a crown to it. The crown is the part of the tooth you can see when you smile. A connecting piece called an abutment joins the implant to the crown.
Howe and colleagues published a systematic review and meta analysis in the Journal of Dentistry in 2019. A systematic review collects earlier studies on one question. A meta analysis combines their results into one estimate.
The review looked at studies that followed dental implants for ten years. It estimated that 96.4% of implants were still in place after ten years.
The authors also ran a sensitivity analysis. This is a check on how much the result changes when the studies are combined in a different way.
The sensitivity analysis gave a ten year survival of 93.2%. The authors consider 93.2% the more realistic of the two estimates, and we quote both figures for that reason.
In this review, an implant counted as surviving if it was still in the jaw at ten years.
The figure does not describe the condition of the crown on the implant. It also does not describe the health of the gum around it.
The review stops at ten years. It gives no estimate for twenty or thirty years.
The figures are averages across the patients in the studies. Their health, their habits and their jaw bone may differ from yours. Your dentist explains what applies to you, based on your examination and scan.
Your first appointment is a smile assessment. Your dentist examines your mouth and takes a digital scan of your teeth. The scan shows how much bone there is where the implant would go.
If there is not enough bone, you may need a bone graft first. A bone graft adds bone to your jaw so the implant has enough support. Your written plan tells you if you need one, and the exact fee in your plan includes it.
Your dentist then places the implant in your jaw. You have review appointments while the bone heals around it, and these are included in the fee.
Once the area has healed, your dentist fits the abutment to the implant and the crown to the abutment.
A single implant usually takes 3 to 6 months from start to finish. Most of that time is healing.
Full arch implants replace a whole row of teeth, in your upper or lower jaw. Your dentist attaches a fixed set of teeth to four implants in your jaw.
You have temporary teeth fitted on the day of surgery, so you have teeth while your jaw heals. Your dentist fits your final teeth once healing is complete.
Full arch treatment usually takes 6 to 9 months.
A single implant with its crown costs from £5,250. The fee includes planning from a scan, the implant, the abutment, the crown, and review appointments while it heals.
Full arch implants cost from £24,000 an arch. The fee includes four implants, temporary teeth on the day of surgery, and your final teeth once healing is complete.
For either treatment, the fee depends on whether you need a bone graft. Your scan at the assessment shows this.
Dentists and dental specialists in London carry out your treatment, and your care is booked and coordinated by The Wellness. One person coordinates your care from the assessment to the final review.
Your dentist checks your implant at the same visits as the rest of your mouth.
NICE clinical guideline CG19, published in 2004, advises that your dentist sets the time between check ups for you. For adults, it is between three and 24 months.
A dental check up costs from £235 and takes about 30 minutes. Dental hygiene with airflow costs from £225 and takes about 45 minutes. Dental hygiene with a dentist examination costs from £395 and takes about 60 minutes.
If your implant feels loose, or the gum around it is sore or swollen, contact us promptly. A same day emergency check up costs from £375.
A smile assessment costs from £315 and takes about 45 minutes. It includes an examination, a digital scan of your upper and lower teeth, and photographs. You do not have any treatment at this appointment.
You leave with a written plan and the exact fee. Your plan and its fees are valid for six months. The fee stays the same unless you change the treatment you asked for.
To find out whether an implant suits you, book a smile assessment, from £315.
96.4%
of dental implants were estimated to survive ten years, counted at the level of the implant.
Howe and colleagues, Journal of Dentistry, 2019
93.2%
is the ten year survival from the same review’s sensitivity analysis, which the authors consider the more realistic estimate.
Howe and colleagues, Journal of Dentistry, 2019
24
months is the longest interval between check ups for adults, and three months the shortest, set for each person from their own risk.
NICE clinical guideline CG19, Dental checks, intervals between oral health reviews, 2004
No. It is an average across the patients in the studies that Howe and colleagues reviewed in 2019, and their sensitivity analysis gave 93.2%. Your dentist assesses your own case from your examination and scan.
A single implant with its crown usually takes 3 to 6 months. Full arch implants usually take 6 to 9 months.
No. The smile assessment involves no treatment. You receive a written plan and the exact fee, and you book implant treatment afterwards only if you choose to.
Your scan at the assessment shows whether you need a graft first. If you do, your written plan says so, and the exact fee includes it before anything is booked.
Yes. The single implant fee, from £5,250, includes the implant, the abutment and the crown.