Single Tooth Implant in Marylebone

Four options replace a single missing tooth. Which suits you depends as much on the teeth either side of the gap as on the gap itself, which is why the choice is made from your scan rather than from a price list.

Dental implant

An implant replaces the root and a crown replaces the tooth, and the neighbouring teeth are left alone. It costs the most and takes months, because the bone has to fuse to the implant. In return it keeps loading the jawbone under the gap and, looked after, can last for decades: the Association of Dental Implantology cites 95.2% implant survival at 10 years for single crowns.

Conventional bridge

A bridge fills the gap with a false tooth held by crowns on the teeth either side. It is quicker and needs no surgery, but those two teeth are cut down to take the crowns, and if one of them later fails the whole bridge is affected. Where the neighbours already need crowns, a bridge can do two jobs at once.

Resin-bonded (Maryland) bridge

A false tooth with a thin wing bonded to the back of a neighbouring tooth, so very little of that tooth is drilled. It suits a front tooth with a healthy neighbour and a light bite, and it can come unstuck and need re-bonding. Some people use one while they decide about an implant.

Partial denture

A removable plate carrying the replacement tooth, clipped to the teeth either side. It is the least invasive and least expensive option, but it moves when you eat, comes out at night and does nothing to slow bone loss under the gap.

Published W1 prices for one implant with its crown ran from £2,800 to £3,600 on 29 September 2026, and the dental implant cost page compares them. If the bridge you have is the problem, the failing dental bridge page covers what happens next.

A front tooth is the hardest single implant to get right, because the gum line and the shade are on show. The implant is placed where the scan shows bone to support the gum, the gum is shaped around a temporary crown while you heal, and the final crown is made only once the gum has settled, so it comes out of the gum like the teeth beside it.

Temporary tooth while you wait for the implant

You are not left with a gap at the front. Depending on the case the temporary is a crown on the implant, a small removable denture or a resin-bonded tooth, and the implant dentist chooses the one that protects the site best. Missing teeth has more on what a gap does over time.

Back teeth do most of the chewing, so a molar implant is usually wider and its crown is built for load rather than looks. Two things shape the plan. In the upper jaw the sinus may have dropped into the space, which can need a sinus lift first. In the lower jaw the scan maps the nerve that runs through the bone, so the implant stays clear of it.

A missing back tooth nobody can see still matters: the tooth above it can drift down into the gap and the teeth beside it can tip, and the bone under it shrinks, as the jaw bone loss page explains.

If the tooth is still there, keeping it is usually the first option to rule out. A tooth that can be restored with root canal treatment and a crown keeps its own root and the bone around it. An implant becomes the better choice when the tooth is cracked below the gum, when too little of it is left to hold a crown, or when a root canal has already failed.

The 3D scan at your implant consultation shows the bone around the root in a way a flat X-ray cannot, so the choice is made on what the scan shows.

Single tooth implant treatment is arranged at UNTIL Marylebone, 1 Orchard Street W1H 6HJ, beside Selfridges, about 7 minutes on foot from Bond Street station and 6 from Marble Arch, according to TfL. Directions, opening hours and the nearby areas people travel from are on the Marylebone location page.