Dental implant is a freestanding way of dental restoration, different from porcelain teeth and removable denture. No matter what your condition is, single tooth loss, numerous teeth loss or all-mouth teeth loss, you can seek dental implant treatment. 

    What is dental implant treatment? In brief, it refers to place an artificial root – dental implant, into alveolar bone, followed by an abutment installment after it has firmly integrated into bone. At last, a dental crown will be placed on the tooth for protection to complete the whole process. 

    As for restoration of porcelain tooth or removable denture, they both rely on the support of healthy teeth and gums and thus do harm to them over time. While dental implant requires support from alveolar bone directly, without affecting other teeth. And it’s also quite convenient to clean an implant tooth. For those who conduct a single dental implant, chances are that they may forget which tooth is the implant one as time goes by, since dental implant is very close to a natural one in terms of both appearance and function.

    In cases of full-mouth teeth loss, it doesn’t mean that you need all-mouth dental implants. In general, dentist will choose a few proper positions to place implants according to patients’ personal condition, following a thorough oral checkup. Then, a porcelain bridge will be fabricated and placed on the implants. 

    Dental implant treatment raises high requirements on patients’ alveolar bone condition. It’s necessary to thoroughly examine alveolar bone density and overall oral health of those with full-mouth teeth loss, prior to conducing the treatment. With regard to those wearing removable denture in a long run, most of them are not eligible candidates for dental implant due to severe alveolar resorption. Thus you’d best take a checkup to see whether you are allowed to conduct dental implant or not, right at the time of tooth falling out. 

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