maandag 18 februari 2013

Dental Implants - A Favored Dental Solution

By Piper Downs


Many people have one or more missing teeth. However, that does not imply that you need to live with that unattractive situation. Today, there are three great choices to give you back your looks and eating ability: porcelain-fused-to-metal bridges, all-porcelain bridges, and oral implants.

When a tooth is lost as a result of decay or gum disease, or because they never appeared in the first place, a fixed dental bridge is a nice way to bring back the missing tooth. An dental bridge is like an false tooth, and may be made to replace a single tooth, or several teeth in a row.

Porcelain-fused-to-metal bridges are popular for hiding missing teeth in both the front and the rear of the mouth. They are really strong and attractive, however they do have drawbacks. Over time as your gum line changes, you might see the little gray line of silver where the porcelain ends and the metal begins. That could look like you always have food or something stuck in your teeth.

The other kind of bridge is an all-porcelain bridge. These bridges are the best looking of the three. Porcelain bridges can be made to look virtually identical to your real teeth. And, due to the fact that there is no metal involved, no grey line! All porcelain bridges were fragile at one time. Today, with developments in porcelain, the all-porcelain bridge has actually come to be an excellent, durable option for switching out a missing tooth.

Lastly and best of all are dental implants. Instead of making use of nearby teeth as anchors for fixed bridges, dental implants are long-term. Your dentist surgically drills them into the jawbone. Made of titanium metal that "fuses" with the jawbone, implants never decay like the teeth anchoring fixed bridges might. Due to the fact that implants fuse with the jawbone, your jawbone assumes that a real tooth is there. That typically stops the bone loss that can happen with a bridge.

If you are missing several teeth, you might lean towards dental implants. Depending on how many teeth are missing, your dental practitioner could attach many new teeth to 2 or 3 dental implants in a bridge/implants combo. This strategy could also be utilized to securely fasten complete dentures. The implants will be secure support for replacement bridge or dentures to stop any slippage and bone loss.

With a general success rate of around 95% and with almost 50 years of clinical study to support it, dental implants are often the favored alternative for replacing missing teeth.




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