Full mouth rehabilitation is the rebuilding of most or all of the teeth in both jaws, planned as one piece of work instead of one tooth at a time.
It usually comes up when teeth have worn short over the years, when several old crowns and fillings start giving way around the same time, or when back teeth have been missing long enough that the front teeth have quietly taken over the chewing. The mouth still works. It just works unevenly, and the bite has drifted from where it started.
The aim is to put the bite back where it belongs and then rebuild the teeth to that position. That order is the whole thing, and it is the part almost nobody has had explained to them.
A smile makeover is about appearance. Veneers, whitening, reshaping the front teeth so they look right in a photograph.
A rehabilitation is about function. How your teeth meet, how the jaw joint sits, whether the load is shared across both sides. The appearance improves too, often a lot, but that is the outcome rather than the goal.
If your teeth are sound and you want a better colour or shape, you want a makeover. If you are chewing on one side, snapping crowns, or noticing your teeth looked longer in old photographs than they do today, you are looking at a rehabilitation.
That last group is bigger than you would think. Rebuilding tooth by tooth works fine when one tooth is the problem. When eight are, each repair gets made to a bite that is already off, and the result is a set of good individual repairs that do not sit well together.
Before anything is prepared, we work out where your jaw is comfortable and where your teeth should meet. This is measured, not guessed. Everything built afterwards is built to that position.
Gums and bone are sorted before restorations go on. That can mean gum treatment, removing teeth that are past saving, or bone grafting where an implant is planned and the bone has thinned. Bone grafting runs Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000 and adds three to six months of healing before the implant goes in.
Gaps get filled with implants, bridges, or a full arch solution. A single implant with its crown runs Rs 45,000 to Rs 88,000. A 3-unit bridge runs Rs 12,000 to Rs 35,000. If a whole jaw needs replacing, All-on-4 puts a fixed bridge on four implants for Rs 3,50,000 to Rs 5,50,000 per arch. Our guide on choosing between a bridge and an implant covers that decision in detail.
Teeth that are still standing get restored to the new bite height. Some need a root canal first, at Rs 7,500 for a single visit treatment. Most then take a crown. Metal crowns run Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000, all-ceramic Rs 8,000 to Rs 15,000, and zirconia Rs 12,000 to Rs 20,000. Zirconia is what we fit most often in rehabilitation work, because it takes back tooth load and still looks like a tooth.
If grinding brought you here, a night guard goes in at the end. Skipping it is the most common reason a good rebuild wears again.
Stage 1, records and planning. A clinical examination, an iTero 3D scan with no putty or moulds, X-rays or a CT where bone needs measuring, and photographs. You leave with a written plan and the full cost before anything is booked.
Stage 2, the foundation work. Gum treatment, extractions, and grafting where needed. This is also where the healing months sit, if implants are part of the plan.
Stage 3, the trial bite. Temporary restorations are built to the planned bite and you live in them for a few weeks. You eat in them, sleep in them, and tell us what feels off. Adjustments happen here, in plastic, before anything permanent is made.
Stage 4, the final restorations. Crowns, bridges, and implant teeth are made to the bite you have already tested, and fitted in stages.
Stage 5, review and the night guard. A check on how it is settling, a guard if you grind, and a cleaning schedule.
Pricing is the same at both branches. A rehabilitation is priced as the sum of its parts, so the honest way to read a quote is line by line.
A full rebuild of both jaws usually lands between Rs 5,00,000 and Rs 10,00,000. A partial rebuild, say one arch or the back teeth on both sides, costs a good deal less and is built from the per-tooth numbers above.
What moves the figure is how many teeth need replacing rather than restoring, whether implants are involved, and the material you choose for the final teeth. It is not a package. You see each line and you can move any of them.
Zero-interest EMI is available through partner healthcare finance providers, worked out once your written plan is final. For families abroad, the same work commonly runs several times higher in the US, the UK, and Australia, which is why so much of it gets planned around an India visit.
Six to twelve months for most full rehabilitations. Chair time is a fraction of that.
The calendar is set by healing. Implants need three to six months for the bone to grip them, and grafts need their own three to six months before that. Where no implants are involved, a rebuild can be done in two to four months.
We do not compress a healing window to fit a date. A rebuild that holds for fifteen years is worth a few extra months at the front.
Full rehabilitation almost always takes two India trips, sometimes three when grafting is in the plan.
Trip one covers records, planning, foundation work, and implant placement, with temporaries fitted so you fly home with teeth and a working bite. Trip two, a few months later, is for the final restorations. Two to three weeks per trip is usually enough.
The step worth doing before you book flights is the simplest one. WhatsApp us your recent X-ray or scan. Dr. Rajesh reviews it and sends back a realistic plan, a timeline, and a cost, so your dates get built around what can actually be finished. Our post on how long implants take has the visit-by-visit detail.
This is the piece that separates a rehabilitation that lasts from one that comes apart.
When you rebuild a mouth, you are choosing the height at which the jaws will meet for the rest of a person's life. Get that right and the muscles relax, the joint sits comfortably, and the load spreads across the whole arch. Get it wrong and every crown in the mouth pays for it.
Dr. Rajesh Kumar leads this work at both branches. He holds an MDS in Orthodontics and a Fellowship in Implantology from Germany, and he is one of a small number of facial orthopedists practising in India, which means jaw position and facial balance are what he was trained to read. He has been practising since 1993. Smile Super Speciality Dental Clinic has been running since 1997, in Kondapur in Hyderabad and Maharani Peta in Visakhapatnam.
You come in, we examine the teeth and the way they meet, and we scan. Then we sit down with the images on screen and go through what is happening, what a rebuild would involve, and what each part would cost.
You take the plan home. Nothing is booked on the day and nothing is decided for you.
Most people arrive expecting the worst and find the plan is smaller than the one in their head. That is the usual outcome, and it is a good reason to come and look.
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Answers to the common questions are in the section below.
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