Dental Implants are an alternative option given to patients requiring dentures. Dental Implants are small dental devices that are inserted into the upper and lower jaw to help restore the mouth that has little or no teeth that can be restored. Dental implants are slowly gaining on popularity because of their many advantages over age-old dentures.
Advantages of implants over dentures:
For some people, particularly persons with loose or poor fitting dentures due to flat ridges, or persons with multiple missing teeth who need support for crowns and bridges, implants may be considered a more appropriate alternative to fix the appearance of missing teeth than dentures.
Discoloration of teeth due to brown or yellow stains can be corrected by various procedures. While each of them is quite effective in their own ways, every procedure has its own advantages and disadvantages. The type of procedures available will be discussed with you by your dentist. The most expensive one, called laser teeth whitening, uses a translucent bleaching gel. A laser works on this agent while penetrating into the teeth enamel to increase the lightening effect on your teeth. The length of the procedure depends on the degree of discoloration of the teeth.
Before undergoing this procedure the main factors to be considered are the following:There are many different types of dental implants from which to choose, including:
Artificial bone substitute
In this kind of implant the similar kind of mineral that is found in bones is used. This helps the implant to bond to the existing jaw bone. The synthetic bone substitute is placed on top of the bone to help rebuild the shrinking ridge and provide a strong support for dentures.
Endosteal implants
This type of implant is inserted into the jaw bone to serve as the tooth's root.
Subperiosteal implants
This type of implant, usually an option for persons who can no longer wear conventional dentures, involves a specially-designed implant that fits directly on the existing bone.Dental implants may either be inserted by a dentist specially training in implantology, or by an oral surgeon in a hospital.