If if you have missing teeth then you really only have four options:<\/p>\n
Option one is often not the right thing to do as the adjacent teeth have a tendency to drift and fall into the gap, overtime this can affect your bite and mean that replacing a tooth in the long run is actually more difficult.<\/p>\n
Option two, wearing a denture. Depending on how many teeth you have missing this is a more viable alternative, however many people dislike the idea of having to wear a removable denture. Dentures, whilst often excellent, can also sometimes feel loose which means that eating some foods is more difficult.<\/p>\n
Option three of having a dental bridge is also an excellent treatment alternative. However it means cutting down the teeth either side of the gap to provide a support for the bridge. In some cases this is not possible and we can suspend a false teeth in the gap, however this does nothing to support the bone. When a tooth is extracted the bone will fall into the gap and shrink over a period of time, this often means that even with eight dental bridge the bone underneath the new false to shrinks away and can end up leaving a gap over time.<\/p>\n
The option of having a dental implant, therefore fulfils this last requirement and prevents the bone from collapsing into the gap where the tooth was, as this gap is now replaced with a dental implant.<\/p>\n
If you already have dentures and find that the dentures loose and wobbly then we can often stabilise the dentures with dental implants<\/a> in a number of ways.<\/p>\n