Know Your Options for Tooth Replacement: Dentures vs. Bridges vs. Implants
There are a lot of
ways to lose a tooth. If you neglect your oral
hygiene long enough, you’ll
get a cavity. Ignore that cavity, and it grows and allows bacteria to get past
the enamel
and infect the root of the
tooth. Usually, a root canal can save the tooth, but sometimes the damage is so
severe that the tooth has to be extracted.
Or maybe the loss of
your tooth was less surgical and more accidental. Maybe you took a
well-intentioned elbow to the jaw during a pick-up basketball game, or you were
mountain biking and you pumped your front wheel brake too hard going down a
hill and flipped over the handlebars landing face first in the dirt.
Regardless of how you
lost your tooth, you should be happy to know that tooth
replacement technology
has advanced at an incredible rate over the past few years. Let’s go over all
the tooth replacement options now available so you can know which one is the
best fit for you.
Dentures
The tried and true
method for covering up a missing tooth is to use dentures, which are removable sets of prosthetic
teeth. The primary
advantage to dentures is that they are most likely your cheapest option. There
are disadvantages as well though: dentures can make it hard to chew or speak,
and there is the potential embarrassment of them falling out.
Bridges
A fixed bridges offers some benefits over dentures. It is a crown for the
missing tooth that is held in place by caps on the two teeth adjacent to the
missing tooth. Since the bridge is locked in, it doesn’t slide around or fall
out like dentures do.
If you are looking to not only replace a tooth but also cap one
or both teeth adjacent to the missing tooth for unrelated damage, then a bridge
is going to be your most effective solution according to healthy smile of goyal dental
Implants
The most technically-advanced option is a dental
implant . These are
screw-like post attaches the implant to a crown that restores the look and feel
of the tooth that was once missing.
There’s nothing that replaces a tooth better than a dental
implant. Dentures and bridges fix the appearance of a missing tooth, but they
do nothing about the missing root under the surface. That root was supporting a
piece of jawbone.
Without that support, the bone weakens and eventually deteriorates. This
results in an unfortunate sunken-jaw look and can lead to nasty infections down
the road. Dental implants provide a new root, preventing those complications.
If you are interested
in those options and would like more information, you can call at GOYAL DENTAL HOSPITAL SUMERPUR. 8432284232.
Visit us – www.goyaldentalhospital.in
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