Advantages of Dental Implants Over Dentures and Fixed Bridges

People who have missing or damaged teeth can choose alternatives to replace their missing teeth. The methods that are practiced to replace missing teeth are dental implants, dentures and fixed bridges. Among these methods most of the candidates choose dental implants for replacing missing teeth as it has several advantages over dentures and fixed bridges.

Advantages of dental implants over dentures:

• Dental implants are long lasting and are fixed permanently.
• In implant placement, there is no need to remove all the teeth.
• Implants integrate with jaw bone and keeps bone healthy without any shrinkage of jaw bone.
• Implants resemble natural teeth.
• Implants improve speaking ability. Dentures may slip out while speaking.
• We can eat any food without any limitation.
• No adhesives are used in implantation.
• Unlike dentures, implants will not brittle.
• Easy to maintain.

Advantages of dental implants over fixed bridges:

• Implants are reliable.
• Implants are aesthetic compared to bridges.
• Implants can not overload on adjacent teeth.
• Implants are not prone to bacterial decay.
• Implants have proper stimulation with the jaw bone
• Implantation does not need any adjustment of adjacent teeth
• Fixed bridges over a period of time become rough and need treatment to smoothen the surface.
• Implants does not have any sensitivity problems.
• Implants have high success rate than fixed bridges.