Getting Dental Implants? Tips To Help You Decide

By Author: Claude Whitacre
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Dental implants are ideal for replacing missing teeth that have been lost due to dental caries or to periodontal disease. In many cases, the bone of the jaw and face can regenerate and an implant positioned in it's optimal location to maintain the health and beauty of the smile. The problem with missing and degraded teeth is that it can be detrimental to your system's general health overall as well as to the structures inside your mouth. It is common knowledge that loss of one or more teeth leads to being a dental cripple with one tenth the biting power and many times more wrinckle on the face and around the mouth compared to patients who have their own teeth….or dental implants.

In the same way muscles shrink from not exercising them, so atrophy occurs in the jaw bones as teeth are lost. Undue atrophy leads to unnecessary aging and weakness of the jaw and facial muscles. One of the goals of cosmetic dentists is to educate the patients we have, to not allow missing teeth to remain in that detrimental state for long and to replace the teeth they have lost with the best available option, bone-saving and bone-stimulating ...
... dental implants (as opposed to dental bridges, partial or full dentures). While those options are better than nothing (toothlessness), they pale in comparison to dental implants for durability, function, and, most of all, the ability to preserve bone.

"For those who are missing teeth, dental implants are the absolute superior way to replace them" says Atlanta Georgia Cosmetic Dentist, Dr. Bill Williams. He says that there is no bridge that can take the place of a good dental implant for restoring a single tooth. The successful dental implant, over a lifetime, will be much less costly to place and maintain than nearly all dental bridge work or partial denture, too. Many of us will look at the up front higher price of a dental implant, abutment and crown on that implant and consider it too expensive compared to a dental bridge or partial denture. This view can be shortsighted because the upkeep of traditional bridges and partials are much higher over time. And, when bridges and partial dentures need to be remade about once every ten years, and when you are still enjoying the dental implant after the same time span, the cost of the implant starts looking like a total bargain.

Dental implants have been around for over 50 years as a viable choice for patients. While many implant systems have been been seen over the years, what is now used in dental implants by highly trained dentists, are extremely reliable. And because of this, dental implants as an option for dental patients, have risen to the top of the list of options in 2011 Atlanta Georgia Cosmetic Dentist Dr. Bill Williams says " We place them confidently and often and can say that they are well tolerated and enjoyed by hundreds of our patients. In fact you have probably met several cosmetic dentists who have dental implants in their own."

Dental implants are a viable solution for many.
Dr. Bill Williams is a cosmetic dentist in Suwanee Georgia. His practices reaches patients in Atlanta, Deluth, Johns Creek, Lawrenceville, Buford, Sugar Hill, Cumming, Alpha Retta, Gainesville, Dacula, Flowery Branch, Gwinnett County Georgia. Find out more at http://www.cosmetic-dentistry-atlanta-georgia.com or watch a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nXdhclhTcg