Once you lose a tooth or teeth, toothless spaces, also called edentulous spaces, appear. When these gaps are not rehabilitated or restored in time, undesirable changes may occur in these areas affecting your oral health. For instance, teeth migration can happen that can cause disruption of critical oral processes such as phonation, mastication, and aesthetics. Your migrated teeth also become prone to cavities and other oral health problems. And worse, the required space necessary for artificial teeth replacement disappears due to teeth migration. This is why an implant dentist in Toronto usually recommends quick surgical operations to prevent such a scenario to happen.
While there are other ways to restore missing teeth, dental implants are the most common option among oral patients. The implant is created by surgically inserting one metal device (metal post) or more into the jawbone. Usually, dental implants are made to support prosthetic restoration such as bridges, crowns, and dentures but they can also serve as an orthodontic anchor to straighten or align teeth. During a surgical procedure, the implant dentist in Toronto will fix the dental implant into the jawbone. The implant then goes through Osseo integration, a biologic process where the metal devices such as titanium form a complete bond to jawbone.
The time required for the process to fully heal takes about 3 to 6 months. Once it fully heals, the implant dentist in Toronto will attach artificial support called an abutment to the implants to hold the dental prosthesis. Other methods for tooth restoration are fixed bridge and removable denture. The dental bridge is a fixed prosthesis that replaces one or more missing teeth. It permanently joins the artificial replacement tooth to adjacent natural teeth or implants.
While traditional dental bridges are still used, dental implants tend to replace them or exclusively support them. Whichever dental prosthetic restoration works best for you, the expertise of our dentists here at Queens Quay Dental will surely restore that attractive white smile you have been missing for a while.
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