subject: Dental Implants Vs Dental Bridges [print this page] Dental implants Houston consists of a screw that is drilled into the jaw bone and then waited on for several months. The waiting period is allowing for new bone to form around the screw to hold it more tightly in place. After the screw and the bone have been fused together by the bone the tooth is the screwed in place where it generally stays permanently. Leading Cosmetic dentist Houston say that usually if the implant is defective it will fail in the first six months but if it does not than it should and can last a life time. These dental implants have an extremely high success rate as a matter of fact they have the best success rate out of all tooth replacement methods. About five percent of Houston dental implants in lower jaw fail and about ten percent in the upper jaw fail. Implants are highly affected by a persons dental habits and the prothodontist experience. This makes it highly important fro patients to quit habits like smoking and always research the best prothodontist with the most experience and training. As said before when dental implants are done correctly they can and should last a life time with no discomfort and keeping their good looks unlike a dental bridge.
A bridge is used when a person is missing one tooth or several teeth they replace that one tooth but it latches on to two teeth on either side of the tooth. It is constructed of two porcelain crowns these crowns and the false teeth between them are all the same color. The bridges are generally cemented into place by firmly fixing the crowns to the adjacent teeth. The teeth can be brushed with these bridges in place but these bridges are only a temporary fix. Bridges are known to cause tooth sensitivity and recent studies show that they loosen the teeth they are latched on to. Many of times these bridges fail and have to be redone and replaced. The different methods of fixing missing teeth have a higher failure rate than dental and implants and all are only a temporary gain and must be replaced at the least every five years and dental implants are known to last a life time.
