What Options Do YOU have When It Comes To Missing teeth?

As we all know, missing teeth has become an epidemic over the course of many years. And many of the times we oversee the options that we have in hand. Today we want to help you understand your options and how to weigh out the pros and cons yourself. So for today's post I'm going to write about the "best" options that are out there and the pros and cons they all have. Some of the options we have are; removable partial dentures and full dentures, fixed bridges, and dental implants.

Many of us know of someone or are that someone who have full or partial dentures. Getting dentures are 'like an other dental procedure' carefully placed and the process is fairly long. But what are the effects long term, when it comes to having dentures? See what many of you may not know is
dentures are one of simplest and least expensive methods of turning to when it comes to replacing multiple or all teeth.More like the last resort of tooth restoration. But what the dentist don't really tell you is the long term effect, so lets talk about those shall we? One of  the long term effects on dentures 'full or partial' is bone loss in the jaw. See when you get dentures they are fitted beforehand into fitting the size of your gum an the molded with your teeth so they can look as natural as possible. But do you really want a piece of plastic in your mouth glued to your gums all day? I guess you eventually get used to it, and you will be surprised to see how fairly natural they look. But once all of your teeth are pulled out and you place your dentures on, your bone starts to decay. Once the bone starts to diminish your face starts to age much more vastly than a person who has natural teeth. Moving on, lets look into chewing various foods... What kinds of food are easiest to eat when you have dentures, and let me know if I'm wrong dental friends, the majority of people who have dentures resort to softer food because they are the easiest to chew with your new prosthetic teeth. The rate of pressure that you can put on dentures is 15% versus the 100% you can put on natural teeth. Does anyone else notice that gap? Another thing about dentures is that you wont only need one pair in the span of the time that you had first got them. Every 3 - 8 years dentures need to be replaced. The better question must be, was this really an investment of a "lifetime"?

Another option for "tooth restoration" is a fixed bridge. Now a fixed bridge is a pretty much a partial denture but this type of replacing the tooth is "a prosthetic replacement of one or more missing teeth". These fixed bridges are just bridge creating by one or more missing teeth. This type of option is made up of  two or more crowns for the teeth on either side of the gap. This is called abutment teeth. Abutment teeth are two false teeth with a natural tooth in the middle of them hence the 'bridge'. Again the goal of the fixed bridge it to help the beautiful smile you one had, and yes they look very nice at first. Like they all do, but what is the long term effect of this method? Many of times over the coarse of years the bridge begins to become lose and needs to be re-cemented. What that really means more money out of your pockets. the average rate of the longevity of these bridges are about 7-22 years. And yes that may seem like a huge gap but if your about 20 years old, then that means at about 27 years old or 42 years old you will need to pay more money to maintain your fixed bridges. On average that would be either 2 replacements and or 5 replacements depending on where you fall in that scale. Now I'm going to be honest with you the prices vary from person to person, but to have to pay for a process over and over again that seems a little too much work for me.

The Last option we have are dental implants and yes folks we all know by now on how much i love dental implants, but am i wrong for doing so? Dental implants are the only option that provides the comfort of natural feeling teeth and can withstand the pressure you need to be able to eat solid foods! And lets not forget the pros such as; having a strong jaw bone, natural feeling and looking teeth, and the best kind of investment you can make since the probability of needing to replace the implant is 5% of  100! Now lets just be that person and ask "hey Stephanie what if i am that person?" well if you are that person it most likely will be due to a health issues. Many people who suffer with severe diabetes or are chronic smokers will most likely need to get a replacement once in their lifetime. In reality it all depends on you health and the way you take care of your implants outside of the dental office. Oral hygiene is very important with or without your natural teeth.

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