An implant is not a procedure you finish and forget. It is a post in your jaw, a crown on top of it, and decades of gum sitting around both. So the question worth asking in Roselle is not only who puts it in. It is who makes the tooth that goes on it, and who is still checking that gum a decade later. At this office the answer to all three is the same person: Dr. Henry Kim, DMD, under 10 minutes from Roselle, from $2,800 for the finished tooth.
Losing a back tooth rarely hurts, which is why so many people leave the gap. The jaw does not leave it alone. Bone that spent decades anchoring a root has no job once the root is gone, and it thins fastest in the first twelve months. The teeth on either side start drifting into the space, the bite shifts, and a problem that began with one tooth ends up involving three.
Only one replacement puts a root back into the jaw, and that is the implant. It matters for chewing, and it matters more for the bone, which keeps its shape because something is loading it again. Worth it for a single gap you would rather not solve by filing two healthy neighbors down to carry a bridge, for a partial that has stopped fitting, and for a lower denture with nothing to grip.
Not worth it while the tooth is still holdable. Where a root canal and a crown would keep it another fifteen years, keeping it wins on every measure, and somebody here will say so. Clinical background sits on the dental implants page.
The first two below are the ones almost nobody thinks to ask, and they are the two that decide how this implant is doing in year fifteen.
No teeth in a day. Where a tooth is still in the socket, that socket is given a few months to close before a post goes near it, and the bone takes three to six more to take hold. Anything handed over on extraction day is provisional, wears out quickly and has a second bill sitting behind it. Nobody here will offer you that.
No aftercare promise we cannot keep. An implant rarely fails because the titanium gives out. The long-term problem to watch is the gum and bone around it getting infected, the same way a natural tooth is lost to gum disease. So the honest version is that an implant comes with a maintenance job attached, and the practice that places it should be the one doing that job. A quote that says nothing about what happens after the crown goes on is describing half the work.
No case taken on that belongs somewhere else. Whether the jaw can hold a post at all is settled by the cone-beam scan, and if the answer is not yet, general in-house bone grafting gets its own price and its own appointment before anything else is booked. Cases that sit outside what this practice takes on are named as such at the consult, not partway through one.
Roselle is one of the few places around here where implant pricing gets published at all, and the ranges you will run into locally sit somewhere around $3,000 to $4,500 per implant. Treat that as area market data rather than a quote, and read the words “per implant” carefully, because they do not mean the same thing everywhere. At some practices that is the post in the bone, with the abutment and the crown quoted separately. At others it is the finished tooth. Ask which one you are being shown.
Our number is for the finished article. Post, abutment and final crown, the whole restored tooth, starts at $2,800. The exam and X-rays that come first are $99. Financing is available and most PPO insurance is accepted.
| 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 |
The only thing that moves that figure is what the jaw needs beforehand, printed at the consult before a date goes in the book. Full-arch work is quoted per arch after the scan; see the full mouth restoration page.
Sometimes the complaint is not a missing tooth at all, it is a lower denture that lifts at every meal, and the fix is smaller than a full implant case. Mini dental implants are narrow posts Dr. Kim places to hold that denture down. Steadying a denture is the whole of what they do; they are not a cheaper version of a full-size implant carrying a crown and will never be offered as one. They need the same checkups as everything else here. Relines and repairs sit on the dentures page.
From Roselle, head south to Lake Street (US-20), then turn onto Bloomingdale Road. That is under 10 minutes from most Roselle addresses, with no Irving Park Road crawl and no tollway. The office is at 183 S. Bloomingdale Rd., Suite #102, Bloomingdale, IL 60108, parking at the door.
Distance matters here, though not for the reason people expect. The placement visits are few; it is the years of checkups afterwards that decide whether the implant lasts, and a ten-minute drive is one you keep making. Everyday care sits on our Roselle dentist page, and cleanings and exams covers those visits.
Treatment here is discussed in Vietnamese, Korean or Spanish where that is easier. On a case that runs for years rather than one appointment, that matters most after the crown goes on: aftercare, what a checkup found, and why. Nobody should be piecing those conversations together from a relative on speakerphone.
Dr. Henry Kim, DMD, 183 S. Bloomingdale Rd., Suite #102, Bloomingdale, IL 60108. This is a general practice that does implant work rather than an implant center that does nothing else, and on an implant meant to be in your jaw for decades that is the point: the person who placed it is the person looking at it at your cleaning. Open Monday 9-6, Wednesday 9-6, Thursday 10-6 and alternating weekends; closed Tuesdays. More on his bio page and the new patients page.
4.8 stars from 126 Google reviews. Two printed here word for word; the rest are on the patient reviews page.
“My son has special needs and has been coming here since elementary school; he’s now in high school. He has always received thoughtful and kind care. The staff is patient and understanding. Highly recommend.”
Yunkyung Lee, Google review
“My experience with Dr. Kim’s office has been extremely positive. Henry at the front desk greets patients, answers the phones, and makes appointments with a smile. Dr. Kim resolves your dental issues with as little pain as possible, alongside his assistant, Pris. I would highly recommend Dr. Kim.”
Kathleen Kretch, Google review
The complete tooth, meaning the post, the abutment and the crown, starts at $2,800 here, under 10 minutes down Lake Street from Roselle. The exam and X-rays beforehand are $99. Anything the jaw needs first is priced separately once the 3D scan has been read, and you leave the consult holding the whole figure on paper.
The two are often measuring different things. Our $2,800 is the finished, chewable tooth with the post, the abutment and the crown all inside it. Before comparing any two numbers, ask each practice whether the crown sits inside theirs.
We do, at the same checkups where your own teeth get looked at, with no separate implant appointment to book and no second office to call. That is the practical reason we would rather place and restore it ourselves than hand a stage out.
Rarely the titanium itself. The long-term problem to watch for is the gum and bone around it getting infected, from the same kind of trouble that costs people natural teeth. Caught at a checkup it is usually manageable; caught when it hurts it often is not, which is the whole argument for regular cleanings after implant work and not only before it. Other risks exist too, especially in the first few weeks and for smokers or anyone with uncontrolled diabetes, and are dental implants safe sets them out.
Slightly. It cannot decay, so the crown itself is safe, but the gum collar around the post wants cleaning under and around in a way a natural tooth does not. You get shown how on the day the crown goes on, with whatever brush or floss shape fits that spot.
Yes. Bring whatever records you have, or we take our own, and it joins the rest of your care here. A loose crown or a grumbling gum around an older implant does not have to go back to whoever placed it.
No, because teeth in a day are not offered here. A fresh socket is given a few months to close over, then the bone takes three to six more to grip the post before a permanent crown loads it. You are covered throughout, so nothing shows, but the months are the months and pretending otherwise would only set up a disappointment.
Most PPO plans contribute something, though implant benefits vary more plan to plan than almost any other treatment. Yours gets checked and you are told what it is likely to pay before you commit to anything, with financing available for the balance. The contact form or (224) 520-8665 will start that off.
Start with the $99 exam and the 3D scan. One visit is enough to settle three things: is an implant even the right answer for that tooth, what does the finished result come to in writing, and what will keeping it healthy ask of you over the next twenty years. Dial (224) 520-8665 and you are through to the front desk.