It's not at all. What happens is when you place the dental implant, you actually open the gums up. The implant is placed, and then the gums are closed over the top of it. The only time you may have some discomfort is really after the initial placement of the implant. Believe it or not, most of the patients have experienced less pain with placement of dental implant than the extractions of the wisdom teeth.
Implants are for replacing missing teeth and restoring the occlusion back to normal.
They help in securing loose fitting dentures, that type of thing. Reduce the sore spots on dentures. Dental implants have been used for many years. There have been other implants used in the past that had a tendency to fail over a period of time. There's a screw type where it screws into the jawbone, or we have something called press fit or cylinder and it press fits into the bone.