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Dental Implants - An Alternative To Missing Teeth: Are You A Candidate for Implant Dentistry?

You may be a candidate for dental implants, an alternative to missing teeth. Dental implants use your jaw to hold a tooth replacement or bridge, rather than anchoring it to a healthy, neighboring tooth. The results are natural-looking teeth implants that look, feel and function as your own!

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Tooth Implants, The Single Missing Tooth Solution

You're missing a single tooth. Until recently your only options were limited: a fixed bridge or a removable partial denture -- which meant removing enamel from adjoining teeth. It was a very short list.

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Does Your Dentist Refer Implants to a Specialist?

We asked dentists whether they referred out dental implants to specialists or performed the work in house.

Results varied depending on whether the dentist responding was a man or a woman.

Dental Implant Terms

Dental Implant - in restorative dentistry, a metal root-shaped device placed surgically in the jawbone to act as an anchor for a false tooth.

Osseointegration - the fusion of the surface of a dental implant to the surrounding bone, in preparation for the anchor of a false tooth.

Denture Implants - metal implants used to secure and stabilize dentures.

The earliest known examples of dental implants have been found in the Mayan civilization over 1,350 years ago. Tooth-shaped pieces of shell were found placed into the sockets of three missing lower incisors and had actually been incorporated into the bone structure.

A dentist named Maggiolo fabricated a gold dental implant in 1809 which was placed into a fresh tooth extraction socket. He then attached an artificial tooth to this gold implant after a period of initial healing. Long-term success rates with various metals were poor until the bone bonding properties of titanium were discovered in the mid twentieth century.

Per-Ingvar Branemark, a Swedith orthopedic surgeon, discovered the bone bonding properties of titanium while studing bone healing and regeneration. His idea to use the discovery in dentistry opened up the modern field of dental implants and implant dentistry.

Dental Implants

Dental implants look and feel so natural that you may forget you ever lost a tooth. Unlike dentures, implants are permanently anchored into the jaw.

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X-Ray of Dental Implant

This x-ray image shows two rectangular dental implants inserted into the jawbone. The implant forms a structural and functional connection between the living bone and the implant.

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X-Ray of Cylindrical Dental Implant

This x-ray image depicts two cylindrical tooth implants and two diskimplants inserted into the upper jawbone. Healing and integration of the implant with the jawbone can take several months, but the results are very stable and strong.

Dental implant cost have dropped over the last few years and are now affordable for almost anyone.