Missing teeth can be embarrassing, and they can stop you from being able to eat the foods that you love.

1. About Dental Implants

2. There are a lot of people who have missing
teeth. Missing teeth can be embarrassing,
and they can stop you from being able to
eat the foods that you love. The solutions
for missing teeth include the following;

3. Partial plates
Dentures
Dental implants
Bridges

4. Dental implants are the newest types of
replacements for missing teeth. Tooth implants
can replace one missing tooth, or a whole mouth
full of missing teeth. The biggest reason that
people are choosing dental implants to replace
their missing teeth is because once they are
installed they fuse to the jawbone of the patient
and are more like natural teeth.

5. The majority of people can get dentures to replace
their missing teeth, but tooth implants cannot be
used by everyone. The patients that want the
tooth implants must have a sufficient amount of
bone on their jawbones to allow the titanium
sections of the implants to be properly placed.
Before you can decide whether or not you are going
to be able to get the implantations you will need
to see your dentist and allow them to take images
of your jawbones to determine their density.

6. If you are a candidate you will have the titanium
portion of the implant placed next to your jawbone
through a surgical procedure. The titanium
portion of the implant will become a part of the
jawbone as the mouth heals. The jawbone will
fuse around the titanium rod causing it to be
immobilized, but this fusion will take several
weeks, or even months before it is complete.

7. These newer tooth replacements cost more than the
older versions because they are designed to be a
permanent tooth replacement. The older dentures,
and false teeth, were designed to last a few years,
and then be replaced. So when you consider the
cost of the implants you should consider the cost
you will have to replace dentures when they wear
out.
The implants allow you to eat foods like corn on the
cob, and apples, by biting into them like people with
natural teeth do. The traditional dentures do not
stay in place well enough for people to eat things
that they have to bite into. People with traditional
dentures cannot chew gum, but people with
implants can chew gum.

8. Implants stay in place in the mouth so the people
that have them clean them just like they clean
their natural teeth. People with traditional
dentures remove them and soak them in a
solution to remove the debris. People with
implants brush, and floss like people with natural
teeth.
Implants look so natural that most people will never
know they are not your natural teeth. Some
dentures look fairly realistic, but no removable
denture looks as realistic as the implants do.

9. Not all dentist can do implant work for you. The
dentist must be educated in the insertion of the
titanium rods, and on how to determine which
patients are good candidates for the procedure,
and which ones are not good candidates. You
should ask the dentist you normally see for a
referral to a dentist that does work with implants.

10. My resources:
http://www.xpressdentalclinic.com
http://ezinearticles.com/?Tips-About-Dental-
Implants&id=8632150

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