Directly linked with your charming smile, incisors are susceptible to injuries. If an incisor is broken, what can you do to deal with it? Seek an extraction and subsequent dental implant or conduct a porcelain restoration? First of all, you have to take a thorough check-up to get a confirmed diagnosis of your dental condition. 

    If there is only the crown being broken, meaning that the roots remain intact, then porcelain restoration would be a desirable choice.

    In cases where injured tooth roots are diagnosed as irreparable, you may as well seek an extraction followed by a dental implant replacement.

    Why should it be handled in this way? 

    As is known, no dental prosthesis is as good as a natural tooth. Porcelain restoration refers to keeping the genuine tooth root and wearing a man-made crown. There are various kinds of material for dental crown, including porcelain fused to ordinary or precious metal and all-ceramic. The price varies widely according to the material you choose, roughly a few thousand in Chinese currency. While implant restoration means to pull out the natural tooth root and seek an artificial substitute. It will be more expensive than porcelain restoration, generally costing more than ten thousand. 

    Besides, implant restoration requires an extraction which will not be suggested until the tooth is actually not reparable any more. After the tooth removal, a proper dental replacement should be sought in a timely manner. If you want to seek porcelain tooth for the missing one, two adjacent teeth have to be abraded smaller serving as abutment teeth to hold a dental bridge in place. To be noted, the process of removing tooth enamel is irreversible, which will to an extent do harm to your dental health in the long run. Implant restoration, however, is supported by a freestanding artificial root, requiring no abrasion of adjacent teeth. It would be advisable to make your choice after a full consideration. Relevant article: the Longevity of Dental Implant

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