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Functionality of Dental Implants

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Summary: Because dental implants are placed at the root of the tooth, the patient has over ninety percent use of natural teeth. Learn about how dental implants function in your mouth with this free oral health video from a dentist.

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By Michael Chen, eHow Presenter

Michael Chen is presently teaching courses about implant dentistry to other dentists. They range from introductory to advance courses. Dr. Chen uses implant components from Nobel...read more

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"Definitely implants has a major role as far as being able to just concentrate on the area where tooth is missing, and then placing something in that same strategic location so that it doesn't harm anything next to it, which is the adjacent teeth. In doing so, implants also give the best ability to chew and function, because once we're able to anchor the implant root into the bone, then the bone is going to wrap around the implant and become very, very solid. Basically, we're able to get it to ninety to a hundred percent of our natural teeth, versus if we wear a denture, a denture might give us twenty percent to maybe, if we're lucky, fifty percent of our natural teeth. With regular bridge work, fixed bridge work, maybe we can get up to fifty to seventy percent of our natural teeth. So there is a tremendous difference in that when a patient has an implant placed in their mouth, they really don't feel a difference. Initially it feels strange, but once you get comfortable with it, you can really function and basically chew normal."

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