Your Options for Replacing Missing Teeth
Absent teeth affect the way you speak and eat daily. Gaps in your smile weaken your underlying jawbone and cause teeth to shift out of place. Due to the risk of developing oral health complications, replacement should be a top priority for any patients with missing teeth. Various dental treatments are used to restore smiles to have a beautiful appearance and durability.
Dental Implants and prosthetics are designed to feel, look, and function similar to real teeth. They are securely rooted in the jaw bone and are exceptionally strong. An implant replaces a single tooth or multiple teeth when combined with prosthetics to reconstruct the smile. The restorations attached to implants are indistinguishable to your original teeth.
Fixed Bridges refer to a permanent appliance comprised of substitute teeth caps, called pontics. The fixed bridge involves taking an impression of your smile and creating a detailed restoration made to look like a small group of teeth.
Traditional bridges are put in over two or more visits and utilize healthy teeth to anchor the artificial crowns and seal the gap of one or more teeth. Bridges are carefully set, then cemented in place to make sure they stay sturdy.
Dentures have the option to be removable or fixed with a dental implant; both types have distinct advantages. Either device can replace an entire row of teeth under certain circumstances.
Full dentures are used with completely edentulous patients or when remaining teeth have been extracted to allow prosthetics to be applied.
Partial dentures are often used to restore a section of missing teeth and are minimally invasive.
It normally takes a brief adjustment period to accustom to the feel of a denture appliance. Eventually, patients grow comfortable with their new set of teeth and can smile confidently.
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