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I had a four tooth dental bridge on my front
teeth. I had one missing tooth, and the bridge attached to the three
other teeth.
bridge.
Fifteen years later, two of the teeth the bridge was attached to broke. I had to have root canals and posts in those teeth to hold on the bridge. Then the third tooth broke. Today, I am toothless since my dentist can't attach the old Would implants be a better choice for me, or even a possibility? Suzanne Dear Suzanne, One of the disadvantages of having teeth replaced with bridges is that you have to have the adjacent teeth ground down and attach the bridge to them. This makes those teeth weaker. If anything happens to those teeth that the bridge is attached to, you have to get a whole new bridge. Dental implants stand on their own. If you have an implant, and there is trouble with the adjacent tooth, the implant will be unaffected. Your history is a great illustration of one of the advantages of implants. If you had this done at the very beginning, you could have avoided the bridge and your dental care would have been much simpler. Now for full disclosure we need to say that there are problems you can have with implants down the road--they aren't a perfect solution. They can be affected by trauma or by gum disease around the implants. But they aren't affected by any problems with your other teeth, so in your case it appears that they would be a much better solution for you. Links to related information on this web site:
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