Dental implants in Austin, TX planned, placed and restored under one roof — by a prosthodontist, the specialist trained specifically in replacing teeth. Your plan is built around your bone, your bite and your face.
Tap any point on the implant to see what it does. Your own teeth stay untouched — nothing is filed down to hold it in place.
Any licensed dentist can place an implant. A prosthodontist spends a full residency after dental school on one thing: how teeth are rebuilt, how a bite carries load, and how a restoration is made to look like it grew there.
That matters most when the case is not simple — a front tooth in a thin ridge, an arch that has been failing for years, a bite that has collapsed. Dr. Caffroni plans the surgery and the final teeth as one design, so the implant goes exactly where the finished tooth needs it.
Which one fits depends on how many teeth are gone, how much bone is left, and what you want to be able to eat. All four start from the same free scan.
One titanium root, one custom crown. The teeth either side are never touched — which is the whole argument against a bridge.
A complete fixed arch anchored on four implants, angled to use the bone you already have. Often no grafting needed.
Your denture clips onto two to four implants. It stays put when you laugh, and comes out at night to clean.
Been missing a tooth for years? The ridge shrinks. Grafting rebuilds enough width and height to hold an implant properly.
This is what goes in: a threaded titanium post about the size of the root it replaces, an abutment that passes through the gum, and a zirconia crown milled to match the tooth beside it. Drag to spin it.
Rendered to scale from the geometry of a typical tapered implant system. Your case may use a different diameter, length or connection — that decision comes out of the scan.
Four questions, no email, no phone number. It won't replace a scan — but it will tell you which conversation you're actually having, and roughly what it costs.
Most single-tooth cases run about four months end to end. Full-arch patients walk out with fixed teeth on surgery day. Here is the whole path — tap a stage to see what actually happens.
Three of the most common situations we treat in Austin. Pull the handle across, or use the arrow keys.
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Pick a shade and watch the new crown change against its neighbours. This is roughly the conversation we have in the chair — except in daylight, with your own face next to it.
Roughly the middle of the natural range. Most adult teeth sit between A1 and A3.5, and darken slowly with age and coffee.
Shade names follow the classical VITA arrangement used across dentistry. Colours here are approximations for the screen — no monitor is a shade guide.
Nobody enjoys not knowing. Here is exactly what happens in the bone, from the first millimetre to the finished tooth.
At your consultation this is on the screen in front of you. Tap the markers to see what a prosthodontist reads off it — the same walkthrough you'd get in the chair.
Bone height and width at the site, how close the sinus or the nerve sits, the health of the neighbouring roots, and whether anything already in the mouth is failing quietly.
Illustrative radiograph generated for teaching. Not a patient record.
11.4 mm available height
6.8 mm ridge width
2.0 mm clearance to sinus
A panoramic image is flat. A CBCT is not: it slices the jaw in any direction, so bone width can be measured rather than guessed, and the distance to the sinus floor or the nerve is a number instead of an estimate.
The fixture is positioned in software first, under the tooth that will sit on top of it. A surgical guide is then printed from that plan, so the angle and depth on the day match the angle and depth on the screen.
Synthetic cross-section for illustration.
Four rooms, one building on MoPac. Scanning, planning, surgery and the lab all happen here — nothing gets posted to an outside lab and guessed at.
Tap a room. Layout shown is indicative.
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Dr. Caffroni limits their practice to implant and reconstructive dentistry. Every case here is planned personally — the scan is read, the implant position designed, and the final teeth drawn before a single instrument is picked up.
Most patients here pay monthly. Move the sliders to see what your case would actually cost per month before you ever sit in a chair.
Estimate only, for planning. Not an offer of credit, and not a quote for treatment. Actual rate, term and approval come from the third-party lender based on your credit. Treatment fees are confirmed after your examination.
Three patients on what the year before treatment was like, and what changed afterwards.
"I hid my teeth in every photo for six years. I stopped doing that about a week after the crown went on."
Marisol lost an upper front tooth to a failed root canal in 2019 and wore a flipper for years. Single implant, guided placement, zirconia crown shade-matched to the tooth beside it.
"I walked in with an upper arch that was done for and walked out the same afternoon with teeth. I ate barbecue that weekend."
Dave had advanced periodontal disease across the upper arch. Four implants, angled to avoid the sinus, fixed provisional bridge placed on surgery day, final zirconia arch four months later.
"Twelve years of adhesive and a denture that moved when I talked. Two implants fixed the whole problem."
Jeanette's lower denture had become unwearable as the ridge resorbed. Two implants with locator attachments; the existing denture was converted rather than remade.
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Went to three consults before this one. The only place that showed me the scan, explained why the other plan would have failed, and put the whole cost on one page. No pressure at all.
Terrified of dentists my whole life. They did the sedation, I remember almost none of it, and I was back at work the next day. The front desk called me twice that week to check in.
The new tooth matches so well my wife couldn't tell me which one it was. Worth every dollar and the financing made it manageable.
Drove in from Dripping Springs and would do it again. Straight answers about what I needed and what I didn't — they talked me out of a more expensive option.
If yours isn't here, call the practice and ask. Nobody will try to book you for something you don't need.
Ask us directlyThe placement itself is done under local anaesthetic, so you feel pressure but not pain. IV sedation is available if you'd rather not be aware of it at all. Afterwards, most patients describe it as less uncomfortable than an extraction and manage with ibuprofen for two or three days.
A single implant, abutment and crown generally runs $3,900–$5,500 here depending on whether grafting is needed. A full arch on four implants starts around $24,500. Full mouth — both arches — is usually $46,000–$58,000.
Those are real ranges, not teaser pricing. Your exact figure is confirmed in writing after the scan, and it doesn't move afterwards.
Many plans now contribute something toward implants, typically between $1,000 and $2,500 a year, and often more toward the crown than the surgery. We'll run a benefits check before your consultation so you know the number in advance rather than afterwards.
The titanium post itself commonly lasts decades — long-term studies put survival above 90% at ten years or more. The crown on top is the part that wears, and may need replacing after 10–15 years, much like any other restoration.
What shortens that is gum disease and smoking, which is why hygiene visits are built into the plan.
Usually not. The ridge does shrink once a root is gone, and after several years there may not be enough width left to place an implant directly — but grafting rebuilds it, and angled or zygomatic approaches can work around severe loss. The scan tells us in about ten minutes.
Full-arch patients leave surgery with fixed temporary teeth the same day. For single teeth, you're never without something visible — a temporary is fitted while the implant fuses, and the final crown goes on three to four months later.
Frequently, and it's usually the reason someone has waited years. Tell the front desk when you book. We'll plan longer appointments, talk through each step before it happens, and offer oral or IV sedation.
Barton Oaks Plaza on South MoPac, just south of Bee Cave Road — about ten minutes from downtown and easy from West Lake Hills, Zilker and Barton Hills. Free surface parking outside the building.
Ten minutes from downtown on MoPac, with free surface parking — which matters when a full-arch case means a dozen visits.
Sixty minutes. You'll see your own scan on screen, hear what's realistic for your bone, and leave with the cost in writing. No obligation to book anything after it.
Someone from the practice will call you back on the next business day to confirm a time. If it's urgent, call (512) 555-0142 instead.
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A titanium root, a custom tooth, and a plan designed by a prosthodontist before anything is drilled. Here's how implants work, who they suit, and what they cost in Austin.
A bridge sits on top of the gum and borrows support from the teeth beside it. A denture rests on the ridge. An implant goes into the bone, where the root used to be.
That distinction is not cosmetic. Bone only keeps its shape while something is loading it. Take the root away and the ridge in that spot starts to resorb within the first year — which is why long-standing gaps eventually change the shape of the lower face. An implant puts load back through the bone and the resorption largely stops.
It's three parts: a threaded titanium post in the bone, an abutment that connects through the gum, and the crown you actually see. The connection between them — the internal hex in our own logo — is what keeps the whole assembly from loosening under a bite that lands thousands of times a day.
| Implant | Fixed bridge | Removable denture | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy teeth affected | None | Two or more, filed down | Clasps can strain them |
| Bone preserved | Yes | No | No — usually accelerates loss |
| Typical lifespan | Decades for the post | 10–15 years | 5–8 years before relining |
| Feels fixed | Yes | Yes | No |
| Cost, one tooth | $3,900–$5,500 | $3,000–$4,800 | $1,600–$2,800 |
| Time to complete | 3–4 months | 2–3 weeks | 3–6 weeks |
Ranges are typical Austin-market figures for planning purposes.
If you've been told elsewhere that there isn't enough bone, that's often a statement about the technique on offer rather than about your mouth. A ridge that's too narrow can be widened. An upper back tooth site sitting under a dropped sinus can be lifted. A severely resorbed upper arch can sometimes be restored with implants anchored in the cheekbone instead.
The honest part: grafting adds four to six months and cost, and it isn't always worth it. Sometimes the better answer is a different implant position, or fewer implants carrying a bridge. We'll tell you which one you're looking at.
Second opinions are free here too. If someone else's plan is right for you, we'll say so.
One missing tooth, replaced root and all — without touching the two beside it. The most common case we treat, and the one where the difference between good and excellent is entirely in the planning.
A back molar just has to work. A front tooth has to be invisible — which means the gum has to scallop around it at the same height as its neighbour, the crown has to catch light the same way, and the shade has to match a tooth that is never one flat colour.
Getting that right means deciding where the finished tooth goes first, then placing the implant to serve it. Do it the other way round and you end up with a crown that is technically fine and obviously fake.
Waiting costs bone, and bone is the expensive part to get back.
Book a free consultationA complete fixed arch carried on four implants, angled to use the bone you already have. Teeth on the same day, in most cases without any grafting at all.
The bone at the front of the jaw stays dense long after the back has thinned out. All-on-4 exploits that: two implants go in straight at the front, and two more are angled backwards so they engage that same dense bone while their tops emerge far enough back to carry molars.
The result is a bridge spanning the whole arch on four anchors, usually without a sinus lift or a graft, and rigid enough to take a fixed provisional the same afternoon. Some arches need five or six implants — that's a decision made from the scan, not from a brochure.
Figures are starting points, quoted in writing after the scan.
Final photos, vitals, sedation started. You're comfortable before anything begins.
Remaining teeth removed and the ridge contoured to receive the implants.
Four implants through the surgical guide, torque measured on each to confirm stability.
The provisional arch is converted, fitted and adjusted. You leave with fixed teeth.
The scan answers it on the day. No cost, no commitment.
Book a free consultationTwo to four implants, and a denture that clicks onto them and stays there. Lower cost than a fixed arch, and the single biggest quality-of-life change we can make for long-term denture wearers.
An upper denture has a palate to seal against. A lower one sits on a horseshoe of ridge with a tongue underneath it, and as that ridge resorbs over the years there's progressively less to hold on to. No adhesive fixes the underlying geometry.
Two implants with locator attachments change the situation completely: the denture snaps down, stops lifting when you chew, and comes out at night as usual. In many cases we can convert the denture you already own rather than making a new one.
We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth converting or replacing.
Book a free consultationReal implant dentistry rarely looks dramatic in a photograph — which is exactly the point. The best result is the one nobody notices.
When the real gallery is populated, each case should carry what was done, how long it took and what made it difficult. A picture with no context persuades nobody who's been reading about this for six months.
Same lighting, same retractors, same angle, no flash tricks. Consistency is what separates a clinical gallery from marketing, and it's what an informed patient is checking for.
At the consultation we'll show you cases with the same starting point as yours, not the easiest ones.
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Went to three consults before this one. The only place that showed me the scan, explained why the other plan would have failed, and put the whole cost on one page. No pressure at all.
Terrified of dentists my whole life. They did the sedation, I remember almost none of it, and I was back at work the next day. The front desk called me twice that week to check in.
The new tooth matches so well my wife couldn't tell me which one it was. Worth every dollar, and the financing made it manageable across two years.
Drove in from Dripping Springs and would do it again. Straight answers about what I needed and what I didn't — they actually talked me out of the more expensive option.
Four months from the first appointment to the final crown, and every date they gave me held. That never happens. Parking is easy too, which matters more than you'd think when you're coming in ten times.
I had my whole upper arch done. Eating a steak again after eleven years of a denture is genuinely emotional. The team here understood that and didn't make me feel silly about it.
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Nobody has $24,000 sitting spare. Almost everyone can manage a monthly number. Here's exactly how patients pay for this, with no vagueness about the figures.
Move the sliders. The numbers update live — no form, no email required.
Estimate only. Not an offer of credit and not a treatment quote. Rate, term and approval are set by the third-party lender based on your credit; treatment fees are confirmed after examination.
Most plans contribute $1,000–$2,500 a year and often cover the crown more generously than the surgery. We check your benefits before the consultation and file the claims for you. We're out of network with most carriers, which usually makes less difference than people expect.
CareCredit, Proceed Finance and Sunbit are the usual routes. Promotional 0% periods of 12 and 24 months are common for smaller cases; longer terms for full-arch work carry interest. Approval takes a few minutes and a soft check first.
Implants are an eligible medical expense. If you have a balance sitting in an HSA, this is one of the highest-value things to spend it on — and timing treatment across two plan years can stretch annual maximums further.
Full-mouth work doesn't have to happen at once. Doing one arch, then the other six months later, splits the cost across two insurance years and two budgets. It's clinically fine in most cases and we'll tell you when it isn't.
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Most dental practices do a bit of everything. This one doesn't. Every appointment on the schedule is an implant consultation, a placement, or a restoration being fitted — which means the instruments, the imaging, the lab and the surgical protocol are all built around a single kind of work.
Dr. Caffroni reads every scan personally and designs every implant position before surgery, then designs the teeth that go on top. That continuity is the argument for a prosthodontist: the person who decides where the implant goes is the same person who has to make the final tooth look right, and they can't blame each other.
Sixty minutes, no fee, and no treatment coordinator selling in the last ten. You'll see your own CBCT on screen, hear what the bone will and won't allow, and be given a written plan with the full cost — including the parts other quotes tend to leave out, like grafting, sedation and the final restoration.
Two dedicated implant assistants, both trained in IV sedation monitoring. The same faces from consultation through to the final fit.
Crowns and full arches are designed and milled on site, which means the shade is checked against your face rather than a photograph.
Handles the insurance check, the financing application and the scheduling — so those conversations happen away from the chair.
Implant maintenance is its own discipline. Six-monthly checks keep the tissue around the implant healthy, which is what makes it last.
Sixty minutes, a 3D scan, and a written plan with the cost on it. Call, or send the form and someone will ring you back the next business day.
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Someone will call you back on the next business day. If it's urgent, call (512) 555-0142.
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Technology is only worth mentioning if it alters the outcome. Here is what's in the building, what each machine actually does, and what it means for your case.
A 12-second scan that produces a three-dimensional volume of your jaw. Bone width is measured rather than estimated, the nerve canal and sinus floor are mapped, and the implant can be positioned before anything is opened. Radiation dose is a fraction of a medical CT.
A wand that photographs the mouth thousands of times a second and builds a digital model. No trays, no impression material, no gagging — and the file can be sent to the mill in the next room instead of couriered to a lab in another state.
The CBCT and the intraoral scan are merged, the implant is placed in software, and a guide is printed that seats on your teeth or ridge. Drills pass through metal sleeves at a fixed angle and depth — the placement matches the plan to within a fraction of a millimetre.
Crowns and full arches are milled from zirconia blocks on site and sintered overnight. The practical difference: shade is checked against your face in daylight, adjustments happen the same day, and a fractured temporary doesn't mean a week without teeth.
Every implant goes in against a measured resistance. That number decides whether you can carry a tooth immediately or need to wait — it's the difference between a judgement call and a measurement, and it's recorded in your notes.
Capturing the exact 3D relationship between four or six implants is the hardest part of a full-arch case, and where most misfits come from. Optical capture removes the guesswork so the final bridge seats passively rather than being forced into place.
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The CBCT is free at your consultation, and the images are yours whether or not you treat here.
Book a free consultationA large share of our patients haven't been to a dentist in years, and it isn't usually about cost. Nobody here is going to be surprised by that, or make you explain it.
A single implant: mild soreness for two to three days, managed with ibuprofen. Most people work the next day. A full arch: three to five days of swelling and a soft diet for two weeks. You'll have a direct number to call, and somebody rings you the evening of surgery.
It changes how the appointment is scheduled, not how you're treated.
Usually processed mineral from a bovine or human donor source, sterilised and stripped of all organic material — it acts as a scaffold that your own bone grows into and eventually replaces. Synthetic options exist. If the source matters to you for religious or personal reasons, say so and we'll plan around it.
Sometimes a shorter implant, a different angle, or fewer implants carrying a bridge avoids grafting entirely. All-on-4 exists precisely because tilting the back implants can make a sinus lift unnecessary. We'd rather avoid a graft than sell you one.
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That's often a statement about the technique on offer rather than about your jaw. Bring the scan, or we'll take a new one.
Get a second opinionSixty minutes, no fee, no obligation. Here is exactly what happens so there are no surprises — including the part where we talk about money.
Ask us these. Ask everyone else them too.
The long versions. If yours isn't here, call and ask — nobody will try to book you for something you don't need.
Titanium isn't rejected the way a transplanted organ is — there's no immune response to fight. What can happen is a failure to integrate, where bone doesn't bond to the surface, usually within the first few months. It occurs in a small percentage of cases, more often in smokers and in poorly controlled diabetes. If it happens, the implant is removed, the site heals, and in most cases it can be replaced.
Often, yes — it's called immediate placement, and it saves months. It depends on whether there's infection at the site, how much bone remains around the socket, and whether the implant achieves enough initial grip. A front tooth with intact surrounding bone is the ideal case. An abscessed molar with a blown-out socket usually isn't.
The neighbouring teeth drift into the gap and the opposing tooth over-erupts, so the bite changes over a few years. The ridge narrows. Chewing shifts to the other side, which loads those teeth harder. None of this is an emergency — but each year of waiting makes the eventual treatment slightly more involved and slightly more expensive.
Sometimes we aren't. Where there is a difference, it buys three extra years of training focused on this exact problem, planning and restoration done by the same person, and an in-house lab rather than an outsourced one. For a straightforward back-tooth implant a good general dentist may be the sensible choice, and we'll say so.
No. The amount of titanium is tiny and it's non-magnetic. MRI scans are fine too — tell the radiographer anyway, since metal can distort images of the head and neck.
The implant and crown can't decay. The gum and bone around them absolutely can become inflamed — peri-implantitis — and it behaves like gum disease. It's the main long-term threat to an implant, it's usually painless until it's advanced, and it's why maintenance visits are part of the plan rather than an upsell.
Smoking raises the failure rate meaningfully and slows healing, particularly with grafting. It isn't an automatic no. Stopping for two weeks before and eight weeks after surgery makes a real difference, and we'd rather have that conversation honestly than have you hide it.
Yes, and a lot of patients do. Staging across two insurance years uses two annual maximums, and it splits the cost. Clinically it's fine in most cases. Where it isn't — usually when the bite would be unstable in between — we'll tell you.
Ask this of every practice and get the answer in writing. Ours should cover the fixture and the restoration for a defined period, conditional on attending maintenance visits.
Based off South MoPac in Austin, ten minutes from downtown, with free surface parking — which matters more than it sounds when a full-arch case means a dozen visits.
Downtown, Zilker, Barton Hills, Tarrytown, Clarksville, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood. Ten to fifteen minutes on MoPac, and the closest practice to the 78746 and 78704 ZIPs limiting itself to implant work.
Cedar Park, Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Leander. Most northern patients book morning appointments before southbound traffic builds, and we keep 8am slots open for them.
Lakeway, Bee Cave, Dripping Springs, Spicewood, Steiner Ranch. For patients driving 40 minutes or more we'll combine appointments where it's clinically sensible, so one trip does two jobs.
Buda, Kyle, Manchaca, Sunset Valley, Del Valle. A straight run up MoPac or South First, and a free lot rather than downtown parking garages.
San Antonio, Killeen, Waco, the Rio Grande Valley. Full-arch treatment can be compressed into fewer, longer visits for out-of-town patients — tell us at booking and we'll plan the sequence around your travel.
Bring a quote from anywhere. We'll read the scan, tell you whether the plan is sound, and say so plainly if it is. That consultation is free and carries no expectation that you switch.
Barton Oaks Plaza, Building 2, Suite 250. Free surface parking outside the door.