Most implant pages jump straight to the surgery. The harder part comes earlier: working out whether you are looking at one implant, a couple of posts carrying a fixed bridge, or narrow posts to stop a lower denture rocking. Those are three different bills and three different timelines, and a flat X-ray cannot tell them apart. Here the 3D cone-beam scan comes first and the route is chosen from what it shows. Dr. Henry Kim, DMD, about 10 minutes from Itasca, complete single implant from $2,800.
An implant earns its place when the alternatives cost you something real. A bridge means grinding two healthy teeth down to carry it. A partial means something removable sitting on gum. Leaving the gap means the bone under it thinning and the neighbors tilting in. Only the implant replaces the root, so the bone stays in use and nothing next door is touched.
None of that makes it automatic. A tooth that can still be held with a root canal and a crown is worth holding, and that gets said out loud here rather than skipped over. The background reading is on the dental implants page.
Three situations walk through the door, and they are not variations of one problem.
One tooth gone. The straightforward case: a single post, an abutment and a crown. The scan is checking bone height, bone width and where the nerve sits, because those three numbers decide whether it happens directly or needs grafting first.
Several teeth gone in a row. This is where people assume one implant per tooth and brace for the total. Usually it is not that. A run of missing teeth is often carried by fewer posts with a fixed bridge spanning between them, which means fewer surgical sites, less healing and a smaller number at the end. What the scan decides is how many posts the jaw can support and where they have to sit. Crowns and bridges covers how the restoration itself is made.
A lower denture that will not stay put. A different problem with a different answer, and the one most often over-treated. There is a section on it below.
Six questions worth asking anyone, us included, before you agree to a route.
No teeth in a day. Where a tooth still has to come out, that socket gets two to four months to close before a post goes in, and the bone takes three to six more to grip it. A permanent-looking tooth promised on extraction day is a temporary, and the real one arrives later with its own invoice. You will not be offered that here.
No route recommended because it is the biggest one. If narrow posts under your existing denture will fix the complaint, that is what gets recommended, not a full-arch case. The three routes above are presented with their real numbers side by side, and the decision is yours with the scan in front of you.
No grafting sold before it is proven necessary. Whether the jaw has the bone is settled by the cone-beam scan. If it falls short, grafting is done in-house, carries its own line on the estimate and happens first. If it does not, nobody adds grafting to the plan for the sake of it. And a case that belongs somewhere else is named at the consult.
We publish the number instead of holding it back until you are in the chair, so here is ours. A complete single implant, meaning the post, the abutment and the final crown, starts at $2,800. The new-patient exam with X-rays that comes first is $99. Financing is available and most PPO insurance is accepted.
For a multi-tooth gap the number to ask about is not the per-implant price, it is what the finished span costs, because the count of posts is a clinical decision rather than a fixed ratio. That gets quoted after the scan, per case, in writing.
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| New-patient exam and X-rays | $99 |
| Complete single implant: post, abutment and final crown | from $2,800 |
| Extraction or general in-house bone grafting, if needed | quoted separately after the 3D scan |
| Full-arch and multiple-tooth cases | quoted per arch after the 3D scan |
Full-arch work is quoted per arch once the scan is read, never off a flat price, and any area range you meet elsewhere is area market data rather than our estimate. The full mouth restoration page covers that end.
A lifting lower denture and a missing tooth are two different complaints, and the first one rarely needs the largest of the three routes. Mini dental implants are what Dr. Kim places for it: narrow posts the denture clips onto so it stops moving. That is their job. They are not a discount version of a full-size implant carrying a crown and will not be presented as one. Where the denture still fits the gum well, steadying it is often all the complaint calls for, and what that would take in your case is quoted after the 3D scan. Relines, repairs and implant-supported options are on the dentures page.
Bloomingdale Road runs nearly door to door from Itasca, about 10 minutes, no tollway needed. The office is at 183 S. Bloomingdale Rd., Suite #102, Bloomingdale, IL 60108, parking at the door.
The short drive matters for a duller reason than convenience. An implant case runs over months and the checkups that keep it healthy run for years, so the practice you can reach quickly is the one you keep going back to. Everyday care is on our Itasca dentist page.
Choosing between three routes is a conversation, not a form to sign, so it happens in Vietnamese, Korean or Spanish where that is the language you think in. Weighing a bridge against two posts against a clipped-in denture is hard enough without doing it in a second language.
Dr. Henry Kim, DMD, 183 S. Bloomingdale Rd., Suite #102, Bloomingdale, IL 60108. Planning, placement and the restoration are done by the same hands in the same building, which is why the plan agreed at the consult is the plan that gets built. Hours run Monday and Wednesday 9-6, Thursday 10-6, plus alternating weekends, with the office closed on Tuesdays. There is more on the bio page, and the new patients page covers the first visit.
The practice holds 4.8 stars across 126 Google reviews. Two of them are below, and the patient reviews page carries more.
“I was surprised at how comfortable going to the dentist could be! The staff were all very friendly, and Dr. Henry explained everything carefully, which made me feel completely at ease. The facility is clean, and I especially loved the windows that make the space feel so calming. I really enjoyed my visit.”
Jake Park, Google review
“Professional staff and an incredibly clean environment. Our whole family comes here for our dental care and we couldn’t be happier with the service.”
Patrick Ly, Google review
No. It is usually the best answer, because it replaces the root and leaves the teeth either side alone, but a bridge or a partial can be the right call depending on the bone, the bite and what you want to spend. All three get put in front of you with their numbers. What is not on the list is leaving the gap indefinitely, because the bone under it thins and the neighbors drift.
Usually not. A run of missing teeth is often carried by two posts with a fixed bridge spanning between them, which means fewer surgical sites, less healing and a smaller total. How many posts the jaw can support and where they have to sit is what the 3D scan decides, so an honest answer to this question does not exist until the scan has been read.
Bone first: the scan says whether there is enough to hold a post, and whether grafting comes first. Then the neighbors, because a bridge means cutting them down and that is only reasonable if they already need crowns. Then the number of teeth, then budget and timeline. You see the reasoning, not just the verdict.
It settles the measurable things: bone height and width, where the nerve runs, the condition of the sockets. It cannot promise how a particular jaw will heal, and it cannot tell you whether a cracked tooth is savable before it has been looked at properly. Anyone giving you a definite answer on those before the work starts is promising something they cannot see.
A complete single implant, meaning the post, the abutment and the final crown, starts at $2,800 at an office about 10 minutes from Itasca. The $99 exam and X-rays come first. Extraction or grafting, if the scan says the jaw needs it, is quoted on its own line, and multi-tooth cases are quoted for the finished span rather than per post.
Often, yes, and that is exactly what they are for: narrow posts in the lower jaw that the denture clips onto so it stops lifting. Where the denture still fits the gum well, steadying it is often all that is needed. They are not a substitute for a standard implant carrying a crown, and we will not describe them as one.
No, and this office does not offer teeth in a day. A socket that has just lost a tooth is given a few months to close, then osseointegration takes three to six more before a permanent crown can be loaded onto the post. A temporary covers the gap meanwhile, but the timeline is real and we would rather say so up front.
For a straightforward case with no extraction, roughly four to seven months, most of it waiting on bone rather than sitting in a chair. Add two to four months if a tooth has to come out first, and more again if grafting is needed. The timeline goes in writing at the consult. Call (224) 520-8665 or use the contact form.
Book the $99 exam and the 3D scan. A single appointment is enough to say which of the three routes your jaw is a candidate for, what each of them costs in writing, and how many months each would run. The number for the front desk is (224) 520-8665.