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East Lothian Dental Implants
27 High Street, Haddington, EastLothian, EH41 3ES
Tel/Fax: (01620) 823395 |
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| Why an implant? |
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Conventional methods - and their
disadvantages
Natural teeth can be replaced by bridges or dentures. For
bridges, healthy dental enamel has to be sacrificed by grinding
the adjacent teeth. The gap in the row of teeth is closed by an
intermediate element; however, the lost dental root is not
replaced, which has consequences for the jawbone, because this
will "atrophy" with time - it lacks the pressure from chewing
transmitted by the root, which normally stimulates it to
constant regeneration. Dentures lead for the same reason to a
disappearance of the bone mass - an inescapable atrophy, and the
denture has to be constantly corrected.
The result is a denture, which often fits poorly and this
impairs many who wear dentures greatly in their quality of life;
in the extreme case, this can go so far that they generally
avoid social contact. |
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