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Alfredo De Angeli the Rural dropped a tooth in his moment of greater media exposure. While he did not seem very concerned about the hole visible in his smile, at least on camera, a new study presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of General Dentistry U.S. warned of the psychological and social suffering those who lose one or more teeth, from lack of self-esteem to depression. Local experts what they think and how they can cope with incomplete dentition. The problem of high costs.

A day before the start of the conflict between the countryside and the Government, Alfredo De Angeli suffered a work injury: a barbed wire gate pulled away from his place and pulled out a tooth. The agrarian leader was forced to face the cameras around the country without one of his incisors. But there was so much popularity that won a dentist Gualeguaychú empathized with his image and he fashioned a prosthesis to fix his broken teeth. “I had trouble speaking and my friends told me: ‘No, Alfredo, and no,’” then reminded the rural leader.
As De Angeli, many people face every day to the difficulties of not having a perfect smile. Every year nearly 20 million extracted teeth and in the world live more than 240 million people who lack one or more teeth. And according to a study presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), United States, after losing a tooth the patient faces serious social and psychological consequences, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and social isolation. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, when you are missing one or more teeth, a variety of methods to replace, like removable dentures and fixed bridges. Here we report on the remaining option, which is the dental implant.

Implants today is a valid option for replacing missing teeth, the reason is based on the past 15 years have been reasonably successful in replacing missing teeth.

The implant made of titanium, is used as an artificial root to support the prosthetic tooth. The dental surgeon, usually a periodontist (gum specialist) makes a hole in the jawbone or madibular, and then threaded into the implant hole “artificial root” and can be used to secure a prosthetic device, like a crown or bridge on the gum. Implants can also be used in combination with a removable prosthesis to create a more secure and stable base for dentures.

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Dental implants are artificial substitutes for tooth roots that is placed on the tooth crown to replace the visible portion of the tooth.

These implants are small pieces of shaped metal screw that is inserted into the jawbone or mandible. The metal used is titanium, which has the property of being “biocompatibe”, ie it is integrated into the bone by a firm bond and does not cause rejection.

Prior to his placement is made an exhaustive study of the patient, general health status, state of the jawbone, your jaw joint and the possibility of successful treatment.

This procedure is performed in the operating room under local or general anesthesia. To ensure their success requires the intervention of a multidisciplinary team which coordinated the prosthodontist, oral surgeon, the laboratory technician in dental prosthesis and dental hygienist. It is also necessary that the patient is committed to carefully look after their dental hygiene.

Dental implants were developed to replace more effectively, in case of loss of teeth, аn old prosthesis and its use is increasingly widespread as the price of dental implants is becoming more accessible and dental implants are better each day.

Considered “third dentition” Ultimately, dental implants may be placed by two techniques, one of which consists of installation of dental implants and prostheses in the same procedure. The other technique, called Irun mediate, is that it provides biological time required for osseointegration.

A dental implant is made of titanium and has a similar configuration of a screw, and presents a microporous surface, according а indicated by experts in the field.

THE ROLE THAT MEETS

The role of the dental implant itself is to officiate the “artificial root” to be supplanted а tooth, which is embedded on lа lа prosthetic tooth or molar in question.

Currently, dental implants can be placed where there is insufficient bone, after applying different techniques of bone regeneration, as stressed by the specialists in

Advantages of Dental Implants
The advantages of dental implants are guarantee comfort, aesthetics and perfect functionality, so to speak and to eat and that do not move, do not affect the surrounding teeth do not need plaques on the palate, not accumulate food debris underneath, painless, are perfect and can chew all food.

Their placement is almost always successful and there are patients with implants in the mouth for 20 years without any problems. Follow-up studies allow us to assume is a technique with excellent results in 90% of cases.

Disadvantages of Dental Implants
Take time (several visits to the surgeon) and an investment of money greater than a prosthesis because the materials are expensive and require a high degree of specialization.

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