subject: What Are The Benefits Of Single Tooth Dental Implants? [print this page] A person sometimes looses a tooth of there due to dental decay or tooth fracture or tooth injury ultimately looses their efficiency of chewing from that area. Whenever there is a missing tooth in a dental arch, the opposing tooth or teeth will start erupting to fill the gap of that tooth till the time it meets the opposing tooth. In doing so:
Create gaps between it and the adjoining teeth, leading to pockets and food entrapment there.
The tooth will also lose bone support and can be mobile.
The tooth adjacent to the missing tooth will tilt forward.
The space lost due to tilting of adjoining teeth and over-eruption of opposing tooth, results in decrease in space for replacement of a new artificial tooth.
In olden days people use to have a removable partial denture of single tooth as a replacement for missing single toothtreatment, but it has a constant problem that in due course they becomes loose and comes out during chewing and talking, another drawback was that food use to get in between the prosthesis and the soft tissue so after every meal you have to take it out, wash it out, again insert it in which becomes awkward at times. Constant pressure that the plate applies on the bone leads to bone depletion in that area.
Then in late nineteenth century came fixed partial dentures ( fixed bridges ). This was an instant hit in dentistry, but for this we had to remove part of your dental enamel, in due course carries might develop underneath the dental crowns and bridges if properdental hygiene is not maintained.
Now we have single dental implants for replacements of single missing tooth. In this what we do is that we place a dental implant in jaw bones vacant space created by tooth loss this implant function as tooth root and on top of this we place abutment with functions as small crown portion of the tooth on which we will put dental porcelain crown so that to regain the lost tooth function. A Single tooth implant between two adjacent natural teeth is a perfect dental restoration, the appearance is almost undetectable and the success rates are close to 100%. In fact, dental implants have become the most conservative treatment of choice for people looking for replacing their missing tooth, without harming your adjacent teeth or gum tissue.
