What Are Dental Implants?

Series Summary

Many people dread a trip to the dentist. They conjure images of themselves screaming and writhing in pain as an evil man in a white coat probes and pokes around their mouth. While this myth continues to haunt many of us, the dental industry has taken many steps to ensure that your next trip to the office will be a pleasant one. And, let's face it- no matter how much we may protest, there are still situations that arise that force us to go to the dentist office.

Loosing a tooth can be terrible. It can effect your eating and talking, and, of course, how you cosmetically look. However, fixing it can almost be worse. Bridges can damage your other teeth. Dentures seem like a horrid option. However, thanks to improvement in dental technology, a dental implant procedure is the perfect solution. In this free video series, Dr. Chen explains dental implants to you. Learn how dental implants are inserted in the jawbone. Also, learn the health factors and benefits of dental implants. If you are concerned about dental implant cost, learn some tips for managing the finances of the procedure. So, take a moment, and learn how dental implants today!

Video Transcript

"Today, we are going to be talking about dental implants and basically dental implants is a replacement of our natural teeth. When we lose a tooth, or teeth, we need something to, to basically, to substitute for that. So, it will help us, or enhance, in maintaining our ability to chew, to smile, to basically function normal. But, unfortunately sometimes we lose our teeth. We don't tend to replace them with the, the normal of prosthesis. For example, we tend to use something that is removable or something like a bridge, using our adjacent teeth to connect something there. Those basically is the traditional way of doing dentistry. Because something removable, if you wear that, it's uncomfortable, it kind of pops in and out when you chew or when you talk. It just doesn't hold down as well. On the other side, when you do a fixed bridge, meaning that we shave down the two adjacent teeth and then put something over it to fill in the space. Well, that?s good but, you cutting down two perfectly healthy tooth in substitute to help replace the missing tooth or teeth. And then in long term, because of that anchorage, it tends to stress out your natural teeth and then over time you tend to lose those teeth too and you end up missing more teeth. So, definitely implants have a major role as far as being able just concentrate on the area where the tooth is missing and then placing something in that same strategic location so that it doesn't harm anything next to it, which is the adjacent teeth."