If you could get all your teeth out and get implants instead, would you?!
Question: Assuming they would look exactly the same as your natural teeth or better, there would be no hassle involved in the operation, and they would last the rest of your life without any pain or discomfort (unlike natural teeth)?
Answers: Assuming they would look exactly the same as your natural teeth or better, there would be no hassle involved in the operation, and they would last the rest of your life without any pain or discomfort (unlike natural teeth)?
I'm a dentist.
Implants, when appropriate, are far and away superior to bridges and dentures for replacing teeth.
That does not mean, however, that they are better than your natural teeth. Nothing is as good as your natural teeth.
Implants are not without problems. In addition to the occasional initial failure (i.e. the implant fails to integrate into the bone), implants can can fail at any time throughout their lives. A traumatic bite, for example, can cause the bone around the implant to resorb.
Implants are also not suited to taking lateral forces the way natural teeth are. Hence, when they are placed, they must be placed in a way where biting forces are applied as much along their vertical axis as possible, otherwise they may fail.
Moreover, implant-supported prosthetic teeth do not have a periodontal ligament the way natural teeth do. In addition to cushioning your natural teeth, periodontal ligaments contain pressure receptors that tell your brain how hard you are biting against something, which in turn allows you to modulate your biting forces. That is why we know to apply light biting pressure when eating ice cream and heavy pressure when eating beef jerky. In addition to helping us eat, this is a very important protective mechanism for our masticatory system. With implant-supported prosthetics, there is no such sensory feedback. With single-unit implants surrounded by natural teeth, this usually isn't a problem as the adjacent teeth provide us with that feedback. In the absence of natural teeth, your masticatory system is dependent solely on its muscles to assess the hardness of foods. Masticatory muscles are not as good at handling this task.
So, in short, there is no way in hell I'd trade my natural teeth for implants.
**** NO! thats crazy talk
Hells yes I would!
I naturally have horrible teeth and brushing just helps to keep them just below nice.
No way!
Apart from being extremely expensive....
There is nothing like having your own teeth.
I think I would, i hate brushing my teeth...ooh! ooh! wouldn't it be cool to have teeth with extra functions!?!? like one tooth could be a phone, one could be a remote control for the tv, one could be an automatic car starter....
Bionic toofuses....
Well I don't know much about them. But I assume they would be easier to maintain, no need for dentist visit all the time, plus I wouldn't have to worry about cavities or teeth chipping? Hell yea!
of course
YES! Of course. Then, I would finally have straight teeth without braces. =]
Absolutely not!!!! First of all those implants cost about $1500-2000 each and we all have 28-32 teeth... so if this is something you would like to do you would need $42,000 at minimum!!! I work in the dentistry field and I know that most insurances won't cover these if you have dentures as an option, besides even with insurance you'd still be needed to take out a loan probably.
No, because there is nothing like your own teeth.