TOOTH REPLACEMENT
Missing several teeth can severely influence your daily life. It can affect your general health, your appearance and self-esteem. There are a number of negative consequences on your oral health if you ignore a missing permanent tooth in your mouth because it’s not visible when you see it.
It’s easy to avoid all these problems by replacing lost teeth promptly, before it can damage the health and structure of your mouth by the use of following treatments.
Dental implants
Dental implants are the best method to replace one or more missing teeth. An implant is a titanium anchor that is placed in the jaw to hold one or more artificial teeth. Keeping the three main factors – form, function and aesthetics in mind, dental implants are the ideal solution for replacement of natural teeth.
Crowns & Bridges:
Crowns and bridges are fixed teeth replacements that are bonded or cemented on to the existing teeth or implant and function almost like your natural teeth.
Crowns - Also called as “caps” they are used to restore and strengthen broken down damaged teeth. They mimic the color shape and size of the neighboring natural teeth .It covers and protects the entire tooth.
Dental Bridges - A dental bridge is used when a tooth or teeth are missing. It usually involves putting a crown on the adjacent teeth of the missing tooth or teeth and then a false tooth is suspended between the crowns.
Removable partial denture - Removable partial dentures are given to patients with multiple missing teeth where fixed prosthesis cannot be provided for any number of reasons. These dentures can be removed and placed back into the mouth by the patient himself.
Complete dentures
complete dentures are given to patients having no teeth in both upper and lower or either of the arches. Denture materials used now days are fabricated to give a natural look and function.
Implant supported complete dentures
Many a time, patients using dentures wish the dentures would stay in place. To achieve this, dental implants can be placed and the dentures can be attached to them. They provide solution for ill-fitting dentures that can cause social embarrassment.
Tooth replacement using Implants / Bridges
