As dentists, we used to be of the mindset, states Dr. Camacho that a patient should hang onto every tooth for as long as possible, and we put large span fixed bridges on what few teeth they had left.Recent research has shown problems with this approach to dental care. When the teeth and the supporting structures deteriorate to a point where the teeth are loose, and long span fixed bridges are put in, this is quite often not the best option anymore. These weakened teeth just simply cannot bear the load of these bridges, and they will eventually fail. Read on to get more information.
Furthermore, the teeth supporting these bridges frequently abscess giving you pain and an added expense of necessary root canals. Or your teeth simply fail altogether and a dentist must extract your teeth and try to cut off sections of the bridge. The gum disease continues to progress and your body is continually fighting infection.All of this is a big expense to you as a patient and you’ll eventually wind up with some type of denture in the future anyway.Another problem is that this load bearing stress continues to deteriorate the bone so you eventually have to have all the remaining teeth removed. You see, when there is very little bone left, it makes it difficult to wear any type of denture you eventually end up with.
Dental implants have been around for a while, but there are many different types and placement options, but they are costly and extremely time-consuming to manage. Even more disappointing is when the doctor, the surgeon, and the lab may not all be on the same page so the result may not be as ideal as it could be until now.To remedy all this for you, I want to let you know that I am very excited to have teamed up with Dr. Robert Lemke, one of San Antonio’s top oral surgeons who is also a medical doctor, and Oral Designs – an award winning lab, right here in town to offer you a new dental implant technique called „All-on-4.“
About 4 implants are placed on the top and 4 on the bottom, and you will leave with a temporary fixed acrylic bridge the same day or if you have an existing denture it can be modified to be fixed until you heal! You wear this for about 3 months while they are healing and then a new bridge is fabricated. This can all be accomplished in as little as 3 appointments!With the older and now outdated technique, when implants were placed, they had to heal „under the gum“ and then another procedure was required to uncover them, and in the meantime you didn’t have any teeth.
Now with this new technique, you get the dental implants and leave with fixed teeth the same day, so you do not have to remove them like a regular denture. They also do not cover the palate, so you can taste and feel hot and cold better – which is not the case with traditional dentures. After all, one can always visit http://www.cosmeticdental.co.nz/ for more details.
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