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Tooth Loss Can Damage Health Warn Dentists
Many patients with one or more missing teeth believe the impact is strictly superficial and refuse the lost tooth replacement. However, this insignificant, in their point of view, thing can lead to bone loss and jaw structure altering. All this is a result of other teeth shifting that ends with an easy noticeable change of the facial shape.
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Implant Dentists Warn Tooth Loss Can Harm Your Health
Half of US Adults Are Missing One or More Teeth. A startling rise in adults with missing teeth is becoming a serious health concern and could have significant long-term consequences, according to the American Society of Implant Dentistry.
Replace Missing Teeth With Dental Bridges
One or more missing teeth can sufficiently affect the appearance and functionality of your smile. Gaps left by missing teeth eventually cause the remaining teeth to rotate or shift into the empty spaces, resulting in a bad bite. A dental bridge is a false tooth, known as a pontic, which is fused between two porcelain crowns to fill in the area left by a missing tooth.
False Teeth as Dental Problem Solving
If you lose a tooth, you can replace it with a false (artificial) tooth. If you don’t replace it, your other teeth may get out of line. You need to care for complete dentures and partial dentures as carefully as you would look after natural teeth.
The Truth about Dental Implants
In the past, dentists would try to keep or replace teeth with treatments such as root canals, bridges, and fixed or removable dentures. Unfortunately, a significant number of root canal treated teeth fail, bridges require that healthy adjacent teeth be cut down and removable dentures can often be unstable and require the use of sticky adhesives. Dental implants are a solution to these problems, and many of the concerns associated with natural teeth are eliminated, including dental decay.
Replacing Missing Tooth with Dental Bridge
Nearly everyone who has one or more missing teeth is a candidate for a dental bridge. However, the difference between proper and improperoral hygiene is, generally, what determines the success of the dental bridge.
