Dental Bridge Risks

Video Transcript

"The tooth area but when you do a bridge when you look at this we have to cut the tooth out tremendously. So you're looking at a perfectly healthy tooth on both sides that has to be, basically, a compromise in order to replace one single tooth. And then, you know, once you replace it, it’ll look fine everything is good. But the thing is, it's at what cost? Versus, you maintain these two teeth and put a dental implant right in that area and it will be fine. And so, the bone loss is a very critical thing that we really want to prevent and we know that doing dental implant stops the bone loss process and as long as you can keep that healthy. And the difficulty of maintaining it healthy? Brushing, flossing everyday you know just like how you have to take care of your natural teeth this is really no different. This is why it's important that, I think, if you do have a missing tooth, or teeth you should replace it with a dental implant; it's for long-term health. You know, some patient they don't know why their check is sinking in and because they have no teeth in the back. And because they have no teeth in the back all the pressure's up in the front. These front teeth cannot take the pressure of the bite so over time these front teeth just become shorter and shorter and shorter. Well when it becomes shorter our vertical, from the tip of the nose to the tip of our chin, as it shrinks, it becomes more and more deficient. And when that happens the TMJ is affected because the muscles' being stretched because this, the chin is going up. Now, when we try to reclaim that vertical by opening it up, a lot of time we cannot because once the muscle is tensed up when we try to change it back it actually creates more pain for the patient so you don't want to wait until it's too late before we can fix it. You want to catch the problem at its earliest stage because when it's at its earliest stage it's the easiest to do. When it's at a old stage meaning you know when it's something that's been around for 10, 20, 30 or 40 years or more then our hands are kind of tied. We're limited of what we can do. So basically, you know, having implants, it prevents bone loss. And the most important thing is if you have some bone loss if it's in the, you know, the fixable stage we can always replace it. Replace that bone, bring that whole area back to normality and life will be much simpler."