The Advantages Of Dental Implants and Artificial Tooth Replacements In San Diego
San Diego Dental Clinic offers dental implants and artificial tooth replacements services in San Diego and did you know that implants are the most common option for replacing missing teeth?
People who have lost teeth might feel too self-conscious to smile or talk. Additionally, biting irregularities caused by tooth loss can have a negative effect on eating habits and this can lead to secondary health problems like malnutrition. Regardless of the nature of problems related to tooth loss, dental implants may provide a simple remedy with proven results.
Twenty years ago, these patients would have had no alternative but to employ a fixed bridge or removable denture to restore their ability to eat, speak clearly and smile. Fixed bridges and removable dentures, however, are not the perfect solution and often bring with them a number of other problems. Removable dentures may slip or cause embarrassing clicking sounds while eating or speaking. Of even greater concern, fixed bridges often affect adjacent healthy teeth, and removable dentures may lead to bone loss in the area where the tooth or teeth are missing. Recurrent decay, periodontal (gum) disease and other factors often doom fixed bridgework to early failure. For these reasons, fixed bridges and removable dentures usually need to be replaced every seven to 15 years.
Usually a prosthodontist or general dentist will initiate and coordinate the dental implant process, since they can best assess the merits of this treatment against other prosthetic options. If there is a doubt about whether to extract a tooth and replace it with a dental implant, an endodontist should be consulted.
Dental implant treatment is often a cooperative effort between a surgical dentist who actually places the implant and a restorative dentist who designs, prescribes and inserts the final replacement teeth. Some dentists have advanced training and provide both of these services. The placement of implant fixtures is sometimes done by specialists such as oral and maxillofacial surgeons, prosthodontists or periodontists.
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