Dental Implants in Addison, IL: Scanned, Quoted in Writing, Then Placed

Ask around Addison what an implant costs and mostly you get “it depends”. Here you get a 3D cone-beam scan, a plan built from what the scan shows, and the full price in writing before anything is booked. Dr. Henry Kim, DMD places the implant and makes the final tooth in the same office, 10 to 15 minutes from Addison.

Why an implant, and when it is not the answer

A gap does not stay a gap. The bone that held the root has nothing to do once the root is gone, so it gives up volume inside the first year and the teeth either side lean into the space. An implant is the only replacement that puts a root back into the jaw, so it holds the bone instead of resting on top of it.

It earns its money when a tooth is gone and you would rather not have two healthy neighbors filed down to carry a bridge, when an old bridge or partial has given out, or when a lower denture will not sit still. It is the wrong call when the tooth can still be saved: if a root canal and a crown will keep it, keeping it wins, and you will hear that here. Clinical detail sits on our dental implants page.

What to look for in an implant dentist

Six things worth establishing before anyone touches the tooth. The answers differ more than the marketing does.

What we will not promise you

We do not do teeth in a day. Where the tooth still has to come out, the socket gets its two to four months to close over before a post goes anywhere near it. A finished tooth promised on the day of the extraction is a temporary with a short life and a second bill behind it.

The other two limits are the same kind of honest. The cone-beam scan decides whether the jaw has the bone to hold a post, and where it does not, general in-house bone grafting is priced and done first. And where a case sits outside what this office takes on, you hear that at the consult, not halfway through it.

What happens, visit by visit

  1. The consult, and the scan that drives it. Cone-beam imaging maps the bone and the nerve before any decision gets made, so the plan is built on your jaw rather than an average one. The quote and the timeline are printed for you the same visit.
  2. Whatever the jaw needs first. A tooth still in place comes out and is given time to close over. Bone too thin to hold a post is grafted in-house, on its own line of the estimate.
  3. The post. Titanium, placed under local anesthetic in a single appointment. Work the following morning is the norm, not the exception.
  4. The wait. Three to six months of bone growing onto the post. Nothing about that stage leaves a gap anyone can see.
  5. The tooth itself. Digital impression, abutment, crown. This is the handoff point at most practices; here it is simply the next appointment.

What dental implants cost for Addison patients

Almost nothing serving Addison puts a figure on a page, so here is ours. Post, abutment and final crown, the complete restored tooth, starts at $2,800. The new-patient exam with X-rays that comes first is $99. Financing is available.

WhatPrice
New-patient exam and X-rays$99
Complete single implant: post, abutment and final crownfrom $2,800
Extraction or general in-house bone grafting, if neededquoted separately after the 3D scan
Full-arch and multiple-tooth casesquoted per arch after the 3D scan

The only thing that moves that number is what the jaw needs before the post can go in, and you see all of it printed at the consult, before a single appointment is booked. Most PPO insurance accepted. Full-arch work carries area ranges rather than a flat price, labelled as area market data and not our quote, over on the full mouth restoration page.

If a lower denture is the real problem

A lower denture that shifts at every meal is a smaller problem than a missing tooth, and it often takes a smaller solution. Dr. Kim places mini dental implants, narrow posts that give a lower denture something to hold onto. They exist to steady a denture. They do not stand in for a full-size implant carrying a crown, and you will not be offered them here as a cut-price version of one. The dentures page covers the rest.

Getting here from Addison

The run in is Lake Street (US-20) west, then Bloomingdale Road, which is the way Addison patients have been reaching this office all along. 10 to 15 minutes from most Addison neighborhoods, none of it on a tollway.

The office is 183 S. Bloomingdale Rd., Suite #102, Bloomingdale, IL 60108, just off Lake Street, parking at the door. Worth knowing on an implant case specifically: this is not one appointment, it is a handful of them across several months and then the checkups that keep the implant healthy. Our Addison dentist page covers everyday care.

Care in Vietnamese, Korean and Spanish

The office works in Vietnamese, Korean and Spanish, and it works in them for the parts that matter: what the scan found, what the choices are, what each one costs. Nobody should be agreeing to surgery on the strength of a family member interpreting down a phone line.

Who we are, and what patients say about Dr. Kim

Dr. Henry Kim, DMD, 183 S. Bloomingdale Rd., Suite #102, Bloomingdale, IL 60108. The same hands plan the case, place the post and fit the crown, which is the short version of why nothing gets lost between appointments. Open Monday 9-6, Wednesday 9-6, Thursday 10-6 and alternating weekends; closed Tuesdays. His bio page and the new patients page have more.

4.8 stars from 126 Google reviews. Two are printed below word for word. The others are on the patient reviews page.

“My visit was very good, with Dr. Kim and his office staff taking care of me very well. Dr. Kim performed two root canals and one implant with fantastic results.”
Bob Repetsky, Google review

“Great experience. The dentist is professional, gentle, and takes the time to explain everything clearly. The staff is friendly and the office is clean and welcoming. I’m glad I chose this practice.”
Paul Grooby, Google review

Questions Addison patients ask about implants

Post, abutment and crown together start at about $2,800, at an office 10 to 15 minutes up Lake Street from Addison. The exam and X-rays that come first are $99. If the jaw needs an extraction or grafting, that is priced on its own line once the 3D scan has been read, and the total is on paper before a date goes in the book.

Because a price quoted off a flat X-ray is a guess. A cone-beam scan shows how much bone is there and where the nerve runs, and those two facts decide whether this is a straightforward single implant or one that needs grafting first. Quoting ahead of that is how a figure ends up growing in the middle of treatment.

Every stage that will be charged: the implant, the abutment, the crown, and anything the jaw needs beforehand, each on its own line with the timeline beside it. You take it away with you. Nothing gets scheduled off a number said out loud.

It should not, and that is the reason the scan comes first: the unknowns get resolved before the figure is written. If something genuinely unforeseeable did turn up, you would be told and asked before any extra work happened, never billed for it afterwards.

They cannot. This office does not do teeth in a day. A socket that has just had a tooth out needs two to four months to close, and the bone needs another three to six to grip the post before a permanent crown goes on top. None of that leaves you with a visible gap, but the timeline is the timeline.

No. Planning, placement and the crown are all done here by Dr. Kim. The common alternative splits one tooth between a surgical office and a general dentist months apart, which means two schedules, two bills and two sets of records.

The post is meant to stay for good and plenty do last decades. The crown on top wears like any crown and may want replacing at some stage. The thing that genuinely cuts an implant short is gum disease around it, which is why we are firm about the cleanings and exams that follow it.

Most PPO plans, yes, though implant benefits differ wildly from one plan to the next. We check yours and tell you what it is likely to contribute before you commit to anything; financing covers the rest. Call (224) 520-8665 or use the contact form.

Ready to find out if that tooth needs an implant?

Start with the $99 exam and the 3D scan. By the end of it you know whether that tooth needs an implant at all, what the finished result costs on paper, and how many months it runs. (224) 520-8665 reaches the office directly.