Prosthetic Dentistry
Why You Should Replace Missing Teeth?
- Missing gaps can cause bone loss, your jaw bone to shrink and your gums to recede. Thus, teeth adjacent to the missing tooth becomes weaken over time.
- Neighboring teeth (above, below or at the sides) may shift position into the gap therefore leading to misaligned teeth that is harder to resolve at a later stage.
- Your risk of gum disease may increase from receding gums as it can create pockets where bacteria grows.
Dental Treatments to Replace Missing Teeth
- Metal Frame Dentures
- Acrylic Dentures
- Flexible Dentures
- Dental Bridges
- Dental Crowns
- Implant Bridges
- Single Missing Tooth
- Several Missing Teeth
- Full Jaw Missing Teeth
Dentures
Dentures are removable replacements for missing teeth. Made of either acrylic resin or in combination with metal framework, dentures help patients gain back confidence by providing false set of teeth. Types of dentures include:
- Partial Dentures
- Complete Dentures
- Denture Implants
Dental Bridges And Crowns
Dental bridges conventional consists of at least 3 or more units of dental crowns used to replace missing gaps between adjacent supporting teeth.
Materials used in dental bridges include porcelain fused to metal alloys and all ceramics. Benefits of dental bridges is that the treatment procedure can be completed quickly within 3 to 7 days. Dental bridges are fixed and is taken care simliar to natural teeth making it easy to maintain.
DENTAL IMPLANT
Dental implants are new tooth root replacements. Crowns, fixed bridges or overdentures are then placed on the dental implants posts to replace missing teeth.
Single dental implants, multiple dental implants and full arch dental implants may be done to replacing different types of missing gaps. Selected dental Implant procedures on conventional implants, immediate load implants and one day implants are evaluated with your dental implant dentist.
Conclusion
Prosthodontics looks are dental treatments to replace missing teeth. Kitcha Dental Clinic uses natural-looking aesthetic dental bridges, dentures and dental implants. Our team of prosthodontists at Kitcha Dental Clinic is amongst the top prostheses dentists in the country, all of them having more than 10 years of experience and many of them are also lecturers and instructors within their field of expertises.
Tooth bridges are made of unit of dental crowns adjoined together to replace missing teeth between adjacent teeth. Dentures may be metal-frame dentures, acrylic dentures or flexible dentures. All of which are removable and affordable appliance. Dental implants are ideal fixed tooth replacement solutions that does not decay and lasts for a long time. They do however normally required a longer treatment timing but today’s dental implant technologies and implant methodologies has shortened its treatment time.
Missing teeth should be replaced as it can cause larger long-term problems. The teeth replacement option your choose will depend on your expected end protheses, time and budget.
