Choose The Best Solution For Replacing Your Missing Teeth

Dental Implants can be very effective in restoring your oral health after losing one or several teeth by disease, accident, or aging. Even a single lost tooth can introduce several problems, and an inconvenience in eating is the least severe of them. The structural integrity of your teeth structure is greatly compromised with the absence of one or a few teeth. Your remaining healthy teeth can wear out after being constantly subjected to excessive pressure. Your jaws can be relocated to compensate for the gap and introduce the problem of improper biting. Furthermore, your overall appearance can be damaged because of this discord in your facial structure.

However, there are several solutions for all these problems. It is the job of a good dentist to find out which solution is the most appropriate in your case. It will be a good idea to ask for an experienced dentist’s suggestion before focusing on a specific treatment. If you are embarrassed about the condition of your teeth, you can be assured to know that missing teeth is very common among people in the modern days, and many of those people who once had been missing teeth are now happily living their life with full functionality of their teeth after having dental works done.

Followings are some most popular treatments of missing teeth. It is likely that your dentist will prefer one of these treatments after examining your teeth.

Bridges

Bridges are also known as partial dentures. Bridges are used in those cases where the patient has lost more than one tooth. Bridges depend on the neighboring teeth for support. Two crowns are fitted over the two adjacent real teeth to provide them with reinforcement. Bridges are a very fast solution to the problem of missing teeth. They require significantly less time to become fitted. However, they are not a permanent solution, and needed to be changed after some years.

Implants

Dental Implants facilitate the structures of the false teeth by establishing sturdy titanium roots beneath them. Implants are installed in the bones, and after sometimes, they become a part of the patient’s bone structure. An implant and a crown work in unison to provide a false tooth with all the supports it needs so that the remaining teeth structure is not harmed in any way.

Because the implant becomes integrated with the bone structure after some time, it provides a permanent solution to the problem of missing teeth, and usually does not need to be replaced.

Crowns

Crowns are also known as caps. It is mostly acknowledged as a supporting device for an enfeebled tooth, but sometimes it is used as a substitution for partly or entirely missing teeth. Furthermore, it can be replaced on an implant to act as false teeth.

Dentures

Dentures are also known as full bridges, and typically recognized as a replacement for an entire set of teeth. However, it can be used for substituting a single tooth too. Denture is the cheapest solution to your missing teeth. You may need some time to get used to using dentures for chewing. Dentures also have the disadvantage of wounding your gums.

You will have to be very straightforward about your problems while discussing your existing problem with one of our Calgary dentists. It is possible that you will be able to choose from more than one solution. In that situation, consider about your budget and your desired outcome and determine which tooth replacement method matches your requirement.

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