Advantages of Dental Implants over Dentures @ Jerush

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Why Dental Implants?

Dental implants provide many advantages compared to dentures. A denture that suits best for the beginning may tend to slip and become uncomfortable after some time which is due to the gradual bone loss. Keeping the denture steadily for a long time firmly on the bony ridges that dentures clasp onto is a difficult task due to wear. It is specific to say that the most annoying aspect of denture is its poor chewing ability.

dental-implant-or-denture Dental implant treatment and Dentures – Illustration @ Jerush dental and facial corrective centre Thuckalay

Here are some points to consider while you are deciding between a denture or an implant-supported restoration

  • Dental adhesives are often used for bonding dentures in the mouth. This sometimes requires re-bonding after food. No such adhesives are needed for implant supported dentures.
  • Dentures demand ‘removal’ for cleaning, whereas except for removable denture, implant supported denture can be cleaned by brushing and flossing as like normal teeth
  • Your sense of taste is compromised as the roof of the mouth is covered by dentures. No such condition occurs in implant-supported restoration.
  • Dentures may slip out while speaking or eating, whereas implants are firmly anchored in the jaws and won’t get slipped.
  • With dentures, you need to eat with caution and sometimes you may limit eating more food since it has only 10% chewing power to that of natural teeth. Contrary to it, with implant restorations, one can eat with full chewing power.
  • Click sound while you hear during eating with dentures is no more with implant supported dentures.
  • Dentures have no effect on jaw bone needed to prevent bone loss, while implants ensure high-pressure stimulation that needed to prevent jawbone loss.
  • Bone loss progression caused overtime while wearing dentures can result in contributing ‘old look’ to the face. Implants prevent bone loss.

Jerush dental and facial corrective centre is located at Thucakaly, Nagercoil, Tamilnadu, India, is a leading Dental Implants hospital providing the best dental treatments and Facial aesthetic surgery since 2002. Just 40 km from Trivandrum and 25 km from Nagercoil. Marthandam is the nearest town.

Dentures, Crowns & Bridges -Prosthodontics

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What is Prosthodontics

Prosthodontics is the dental specialty primarily concerned with the restoration and replacement of lost or damaged teeth and related soft and hard tissues by prostheses (crowns, bridges, dentures). It may be fixed or removable or supported and retained by implants. The sub specialties of prosthodontics are

Fixed Prosthodontics:

Fixed Prosthodontics is about the restoration of teeth. Crowns, bridges, onlays, inlays and veneers are used for this as prosthetics.

Crown & Bridge

Crown

This is commonly known as ‘cap’ and covers part of or the complete tooth. The materials to make crowns vary according to the requirement such as function/aesthetics, patient choice and the condition of the tooth.

Bridge

A dental restoration used to replace a ‘gap’ due to missing tooth/teeth is named as the bridge. The adjacent tooth/teeth are prepared to hold the bridge in position.

Removable Prosthodontics:

Removable prosthodontics deals with prosthesis that replaces the soft tissues and teeth and is more generally named dentures. These can replace all teeth (Complete Dentures) or some of the teeth (Partial Dentures). These are all made of Acrylic or a mix of metal and plastic.

Maxillofacial Prosthodontics:

Maxillofacial Prosthodontics is about the rehabilitation of patients with congenital or acquired defects in the mouth or face. Congenital defects generally point to cleft lip and palate. Acquired defects normally are due to mouth cancer or the face and due to neurological deformities such as stroke.

Dental Implants:

A dental implant is an artificial tooth fixture usually made of titanium or titanium alloys. Dental Implant functions as a stable and rigid structure for retention or support of a bridge, denture or a maxillofacial prosthesis. Dental Implants have a high success rate and widely accepted for its use.