What are Dental Implants?
by Kevin Stith
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Dental implants offer many advantages over traditional tooth
replacement procedures. Gone are the days when patients were forced
to simply wear unsightly or uncomfortable caps, crowns or
dentures.
Often insecure and artificial looking, these solutions left people
unable to talk and eat with confidence. Dental implants minimize the
risks associated with crowns and caps, while maximizing the rewards by
producing natural looking, healthy and most of all safer teeth that let
recipients smile with conviction.
Dental implants are essentially artificial teeth that that are placed
within the jaw. Although they are typically more aesthetically
pleasing that the alternatives like crowns or dentures, the real reason
many people are turning to dental implants to replace their missing teeth
boils down to safety. Implants are a safer, more tooth-friendly
procedure that has little to no adverse effect on neighboring teeth or
gums.
When a patient elects to insert a bridge in support of missing or
decayed teeth, adjacent teeth are usually altered to support the
procedure. Over time this leads to gum and dental erosion.
With implants, the replacement tooth looks virtually identical to the real
thing, and the patient suffers nothing in terms of later tooth decay.
Today there are two dental implant procedures that most periodontists
employ:
Endosteal is the most common procedure. Here, various types of
screws, cylinders or blades are selected for insertion directly into the
jawbone, with each implant holding one or more prosthetic teeth.
Subperiosteal is a less common alternative that is used for patients
who are unable to wear dentures and have minimal bone height. The
implants are placed on top of the jaw with the metal framework inserted
into gums.
Dental implants typically have a very high success rate, but typically
require a patient that is in good overall health. Since we are
dealing with invasive surgery, candidates who experience advanced gum
disease or weak jaw bones may not be approved for the procedure. But
for those that do qualify, they can expect a healthy, natural-looking
smile that will, provided they continue with proper dental hygiene, last
for years to come.
Locations offering dental implant surgery are located all across the
country, particularly in the Northeast (New York, New Jersey and Boston),
Nevada (Las Vegas and Summerlin), Los Angeles as well as various locations
in Canada.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dental Implants provides comprehensive information on the procedure
and cost of standard and mini dental implants, and focuses on the Las
Vegas, Los Angeles and New York regions. For more information go to http://www.e-dentalimplants.com/
and/or visit its sister site at http://www.e-rhinoplasty.com/ for
related information.
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