Alternatives To Dentures
If your dentist has told you that you need complete or partial dentures, you may want to ask your
dentist if these other options are right for you.
Bridges
A bridge may be an option to replace a missing tooth or teeth. A bridge uses at least one tooth on
either side of the bridge area as an anchor. The healthy teeth are prepared for crowns, and a false tooth
is cemented to the two crowns. The whole bridge piece is then cemented into place.
Unlike a partial denture, you can't remove a bridge to clean it, but there are special cleaning aids
available to keep the area around and under the bridge clean.
Dental Implants
Simply put, dental implants are artificial teeth permanently attached to your jawbone to replace
one, many, or all of your teeth.
To do this, your original teeth are removed and special metal posts are inserted into your jawbone.
After the metal posts are allowed to bond with the jawbone and the site is fully healed, they can be
used as the stable support for the replacement of one or more teeth.
Some of the denture wearers we've spoken to would have liked to have been able to choose implants,
but as is true for most of us, a full set of dental implants was just too expensive.