saraisaboringname
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2012
Anesthesia??? I got two implants and I had no anesthesia.
Also, the need for implants is not necessarily cosmetic, If it is for a bottom tooth, after enough time without a bottom tooth, your tooth above on the top row will actually begin to drop out...not good...They had wanted to wait longer before I got my implants because of the jaw bone development whatnot with the healing. But my top teeth were starting to go down from the lack of support so in went the implants.
We use IV anesthesia- twilight so our patients are still somewhat responsive. Yes, implants prevent bone loss, unlike bridges, partials, etc. They also don't damage surrounding teeth like a bridge. In the long run, all of these things end up costing about the same because the anchor teeth will likely fail at some point.