Dental Implant Candidate

If you are missing one or more teeth, you are probably be a candidate for dental implants. You just need to be in acceptable general health.

After having teeth extracted, your body begins to resorb the bone that used to hold those teeth in. This shrinkage process begins right after the extractions and continues on for years. When people have had all their teeth extracted, the general shrinkage that occurs is very serious and will result, after a number of years, in their not being able to hold a removable denture. This is a phenomenon that is called facial collapse. Click the link to read more.

If this is the case with you, and you have teeth that have been missing for years, you may require bone grafting first in order to build up the bone so that it can retain dental implants. There has to be enough bone present to support the implant fixtures.

Dr. Robert Thein of LaCrescenta, California (in northern Los Angeles County) has placed dental implants in all types of patients. He can provide the bone grafting, if you need that done. He is one of only a very few implant dentists with extensive training in this field. Click here to read more about his credentials.

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