Dental Implants Introduction
Dental implants are permanent tooth
replacements. They hold a crown, bridge or denture just
like roots hold natural teeth in place. Many dentists
consider implants to be one of the greatest advancements
in dentistry since they truly are "the next best thing
to your natural teeth." Unlike a traditional plate or
bridge, dental implants are actually anchored to your
jaw. After integration with the jawbone, the crown,
bridge or denture is then attached to the implants.
This provides much greater stability for more effective
eating, speaking and smiling!
The Advantages of
Dental Implants
Better Dentures: if you wear conventional
dentures, you know how limiting they can be. Slipping,
avoiding all but the easiest foods to eat and messy
adhesives. Implants can solve all these problems for
denture wearers. In fact, most enthusiastic implant
patients are people who had conventional dentures for
many years prior to their implants.
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Stable Bridges: historically, one of
the biggest challenges to general dentists was when
a patient lost their back two or three teeth on one
side. Without a back tooth to attach a bridge to, dentists
were forced to design partial dentures or "removable
flippers" for patients to use. These functioned more
for cosmetic purposes than for anything else. Dental
implants can provide solid anchors for a bridge of any
size.
Healthy Teeth: dental implants often
allow dentists to provide single crowns where a three-unit
bridge would have been the only option in the past.
To make the three-unit bridge, the two healthy teeth
are ground down to make abutments for attaching the
bridge. With an implant, a crown is placed on top of
the implant's post and the two healthy teeth remain
untouched.
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