It is very important to replace missing teeth. Your teeth are meant to work together as a team. When one or more of your natural teeth are lost, problems will arise. These problems include; shifting, tipping, malocclusion (crooked bite), gum disease and eventual tooth loss. There are three options available to you if you have lost one or more of your natural teeth. They are; removable partial dentures, bridgework or implants. As the first term implies, partial dentures are ta

While implants may be the next best thing to your natural teeth that dentistry has to offer, they are not exactly the same as your own teeth. Because of this, caring for implants calls for a different approach both here in our office and with you at home. The gum tissue around an implant is different from that found about one of your own teeth. The ligaments coming from the gum that insert into the root surface of your natural tooth cannot take hold with an implant. Since the