Dental implants are a modern, conservative, and highly successful means to replace a missing tooth. While there are many reasons that patients lose teeth, implants offer a single-tooth solution!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Historically, missing teeth have been replaced with bridges or dentures. Few patients warm to the idea of dentures, which can be taken in and out of the mouth. While a dental bridge (another tooth replacement option<\/a>) will stay in the mouth, it has its downfalls as well. A bridge exists on natural teeth, and is therefore subject to decay and failure. Furthermore, in order to perform a bridge, teeth on either side of the missing\/lost tooth will have to be reduced to receive the bridge \u2013 we have therefore removed unnecessary, healthy tooth structure just to replace one tooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While dental implants are a larger investment initially than a bridge, they are ultimately more cost-effective down the road, as bridges often have to be replaced at least once, sometimes twice over the course of a lifetime. Implants are a conservative treatment option to replace a missing tooth, by eliminating the need to involve multiple teeth \u2013 becoming a single tooth solution. Additionally, implants can be easily brushed and flossed, just like your natural teeth; the same cannot be said for a bridge. Dental implants have become the standard of care for replacing missing teeth and promoting overall oral health! You can also visit the Dental Implants<\/a> Page to learn more about this solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dental implants are a modern, conservative, and highly successful means to replace a missing tooth. While there are many reasons that patients lose teeth, implants offer a single-tooth solution! Historically, missing teeth have been replaced with bridges or dentures. Few patients warm to the idea of dentures, which can be taken in and out of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greensboro-dentist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}