According to the dentist from AKJ Dental, dental filling can’t serve as a way to handle loss of a single tooth. Without tooth crown and root, the fillings aren’t able to be anchored and will fall off. You can only choose a denture or dental implant for dealing with your tooth loss. A porcelain denture will have no tooth root, while dental implant have an artificial tooth root. Both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. Besides, they differ from each other in terms of cost.  

Differences between denture and dental implant

1. Denture

    Actually, denture requires building a bridge for porcelain tooth, greatly relying on the two adjacent teeth to be the supportive point. You need to sacrifice so large an amount of tooth enamel that the denture can be put in the tooth loss position. It would be hard for you to tell if it’s a denture apparently. However, different materials have a different color. It is recommended to choose a silicon dioxide full-porcelain tooth, with a cost of about 2500 RMB. It is durable and won’t cause black gums.

2. Dental implant

    Comparatively the process of dental implant will be quite complicated, lasting for around 6 month. It takes 2 months to firmly integrate dental implant and your alveolar bone. A dental implant is nearly the same as a natural tooth, and you can hardly tell it from a natural one on appearance. However, a dental implant is very expensive. Given that you feel some economic pressure, you can consider to apply the South Korean Dental Implant System which is in a higher cost performance.

Your choice should meet your requirement.

1. Longevity: dental implant > porcelain tooth

    The tooth longevity depends a lot on the afterward care. In generally, a porcelain tooth will remain useful for about 10 years, then you need to replace it with a new one. As for dental implant, it is necessary for you to pay a return visit to your dentist every half an year. With perfect care, you may well use it for 30-40 years.

2. Cost: dental implant > porcelain tooth

    The dental implant technology is too hard and strict to be conducted by ordinary dentist. It requires to be done by a implant specialist. With different implant systems and oral conditions, cost of dental implant varies. What can be sure is that it will cost more than 10000 RMB. As for the cost of denture, generally you has to pay for three tooth, which most patients cannot accept.

To draw a conclusion, dental filling fails to deal with loss of single tooth, instead you can only choose denture or dental implant.

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