The right dental prosthetic should make you more comfortable with your smile, and help you feel as though you can function normally when biting, chewing, and speaking. To ensure that your restoration is stable, you can have it supported with a dental implant. A dental implant is a titanium post that will act like the root for your artificial tooth. To stay in place, it must be set directly in your jawbone, and you will need to give it time to heal. During the healing process, the bone fuses to the implant. Once it is secure, you can have a natural-looking ceramic dental crown put on the implant. This provides excellent support, and offers additional benefits to your jawbone.
Questions:
True Or False: A dental implant is not the only means of permanently supporting a prosthetic – you can also have permanent support with a dental bridge.
True Or False: A dental implant helps protect you from suffering jawbone resorption.
True Or False: Because placing a dental implant requires oral surgery, your dentist needs to do an initial review, to confirm that you are a good candidate to have one placed.
Answers:
True! A dental bridge can be used when you are interested in a permanent dental prosthetic. A dental bridge can stay in place without making oral surgery necessary, but will not provide the benefits to your jaw health that you receive from an implant.
True! When you lose a tooth, the jawbone area where the root was once situated can start to deteriorate. Having an implant in place of the root stops this from happening.
True! Your dentist will need to ensure you are in proper health, and that your jawbone can handle the placement process, before moving forward with setting the implant.
