Why choose implants?

If you, like millions of adults, have lost one or more teeth, you may be all too familiar with the unpleasant consequences. For many people, missing teeth lead to an unattractive smile, embarrassment from loose dentures, pain, difficulty eating, and a less active lifestyle.

Problems with bridges and dentures

Conventional dentistry provides replacements for missing teeth using bridges, removable partial dentures, or full dentures. However, each of these treatment options can cause a new set of potential problems.

Bridges usually involve filing down adjacent, healthy teeth to provide a stable foundation for supporting the replacement teeth. These ground-down teeth often fail over time, resulting in additional dental problems and costs down the road.

Partial and full dentures are often uncomfortable and can be very unstable, resulting in difficulty with speech and with eating. These unnatural appliances often slip or move, and sometimes even fall out. The result can be lack of confidence, and the need to avoid many activities and social situations. One patient put it this way “With my dentures, if I didn’t have to smile, eat or talk, I was just fine.” And none of these traditional solutions address the problem of bone loss.