Dent-Busters: Dental Implants VS Dental Bridges, Which is better?
Dental Bridges are a gap restorative procedure. Its purpose is to fill the gap made by missing tooth or teeth. It involves filling the gap with false tooth supported by bridge connecting to other healthy teeth. It is known to solve the purpose of the treatment but is it really that effective? No, it has many drawbacks due to which Dental implants have become the new modish treatment regime.
Why Dental Implants are better?
Various criteria and effects of treatment are enlisted below to help you to know better, something which we experience but fail to notice.
1. Support: Dental bridges sustain on support from adjoining healthy teeth. Once the adjoining teeth lose it effectiveness the bridge collapses i.e. it is no longer useful.
Implants, on other hand, are independent fixture in place of your missing tooth.
2. Adjoining teeth: Bridges fill the gap of missing teeth at the cost of adjoining healthy teeth. To place a bridge, adjoining healthy teeth has to be trimmed or filed to allow your doctor to fix crown for support.
Dental Implants have no effect on the adjoining healthy teeth. Since it is usually done as soon as tooth is lost, it prevents any damage to the adjoining teeth and the jaw bone.
3. Jaw bone: Dental bridges fill the gap with false tooth helping you chew and keep that smile. But it costs you your jaw bone. Due to emptiness in the jaw, over a period of time, it is lost. This changes the bone structure, shape and density.
Implants not only keep your smile perfect but also protect your jawline and jaw bone. A root made from titanium is added to the missing tooth before placing a crown on it. This fills the gap in your teeth line as well as keep your jaw bone intact
4. Success: If you have ever got bridges done, you know the troubles of bridge. It fails due to various causes, mainly because of problems of the teeth from which we take support.
Implants have the most success rate among any other restorative treatment. It resembles your natural tooth and stays for a very long period of time.
5. Durability: Dental bridges last for about a decade with proper care and maintenance. Therefore, it becomes a recurring expenditure over lifetime along with the hassle of going through with procedure again.
Dental Implants are more or less one time investment. Daily care of mouth and oral health is all it needs to last a lifetime.
Keeping up your appearance and smile is as easy as choosing the right treatment for yourself. It is known that teeth don’t grow once fallen, choosing the next best thing becomes imperative. Implants with high success rate and viability gives you back the tooth you lost. For more information and guidance on Dental Implants visit: https://www.eliteclinic.in/dental-implants-why-is-it-the-new-trend/ , and your Dental surgeon & Implantologist .
