While visiting the dentist isn’t a very popular activity, regular dental visits help to ensure that your teeth stay healthy and function properly. The dentist can perform regular cleanings twice a year to help limit dental problems, but sometimes a dental restoration is still necessary.
Filling Cavities
The most common dental restoration is filling cavities, whether with the more traditional silver amalgam or with gold or tooth-colored materials. A regular dentist is quite experienced in this practice.
Implants
When a person loses a tooth, a visit to a Dental Restoration Clinic for an implant can be very beneficial. The overall process will require multiple visits since the small metal post needs to be put into the bone socket where the missing tooth was located, then the patient needs to wait for the implant to fuse to the bone. Once this occurs, a crown will be added to the top of the implant. In the meantime, a temporary tooth will cover the implant.
Crowns
When too much of a tooth needs to be removed due to root canals, cavities or some other reason, a dentist at a Dental Restoration Clinic can create a customized crown to replace the top part of the tooth. He or she will fit the patient with a temporary crown while the custom one is being made, which often happens in an outside lab, so the process usually takes at least two visits. A crown will often look just like the rest of the teeth, although it could be made out of gold if that is preferable to the patient.
Bridges and Dentures
Other potential dental restorations include bridges and dentures. Bridges are a type of false teeth the are permanently attached to crowns on either side of the missing teeth, while dentures are a set of removable false teeth that can replace multiple missing teeth or, in some cases, all teeth in a person’s mouth. Partial dentures are sometimes attached using metal clasps that hook onto the remaining natural teeth on either side of the missing teeth.
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