Dental implants are better than bridges

After your dentist has extracted a tooth, you have three options to replace the missing tooth:

• A denture
• A dental bridge
• A dental implant

Nobody would like to wear a denture, especially for just a single missing tooth. That leaves either a bridge or a dental implant.  The treatment time needed for a bridge is much shorter than that for a dental implant and as it doesn’t involve surgery, you may feel more confident with this option. It is important to realise that a bridge has a major disadvantage. It uses your adjacent natural teeth for support and this exerts extra pressure on these teeth which eventually can cause major problems. This short animation shows what happens to the teeth supporting the bridge over time.