Modern teeth for modern living

Would you still have a black and white TV, or even one of those giant colour sets from the 90s that took up almost a whole room, when you can have a smart TV on the wall? Of course not, they couldn’t do half the things today’s TVs can do. So, why would you bother with first or second-generation tooth replacement options when you can get dental implants in St John’s Wood?

Replacing teeth has been an area of research and development for thousands of years. It started off with dentures, made of bone, of wood, even of other’s people’s teeth, held together with wires, then on galvanised rubber. Then along came fixed bridgework, where replacement teeth were suspended from other teeth which acted like the buttresses at either end of a bridge.

Now we have dental implants, which in the way they work, have ironed out most of the issues that technology was not advanced enough to solve with dentures and bridges.

What’s so great about dental implants in St John’s Wood?

The big difference between dental implants and dentures and bridgework is that dental implants replace the whole tooth. Dentures and bridges only replace the crowns of the teeth, the white biting and chewing parts. They rely on either suction to the gums or attachment to neighbouring healthy teeth to stay in place and to bite and chew. Neither is ideal.

Suction to the gums is only about 25% as good as having tooth roots, even when dentures fit really well. Most patients can forget about having a good steak or biting into a crunchy roast potato. And suction gets worse as the gums recede and the jawbone shrinks, so people nearly always end up having to have their dentures relined to get them to stay still in their mouths.

Bridges are more stable but only at the cost of losing two perfectly good teeth to make them. These have to be ground down so that buttress crowns can be fitted over the top of them. And if those teeth fail, then the bridge fails too.

At Aura Dental, dental implants in St John’s Wood give great support and never affect the rest of your teeth.