Teeth are lost because of trauma or disease. A dental implant provides an opportunity to the patients to secure a new tooth if they have lost a single tooth. The loss of a single tooth in the back is usually caused by tooth decay or periodontal disease. Sometimes this can be treated just like front teeth but for various reasons, it is often more time-consuming.
The treatment for a single missing back tooth is as follows:
- Extraction of the damaged tooth and grafting of the root sockets. Wait 4 months then
- Placement of a dental implant to replace the root of the single missing tooth. Wait 4 to 6 months then
- Placement of an abutment on the dental implant and record taking for the fabrication of a crown to replace the single missing tooth. Wait 3 weeks then
- Permanent attachment of the abutment to the implant and cementation of the crown to the abutment. TREATMENT COMPLETE
The need for replacing a single missing tooth in the back is often times not as intuitively obvious as the need for replacing a single missing tooth in the front. But, this does not mean that it is not important. When there is a single missing tooth, the teeth next to it begins drifting into the void that is created. Over time a single missing tooth may cause a change in the position of every other tooth and may also damage the overall oral hygiene.
Some of the problems caused by the loss of a single tooth are headaches, muscle spasms in the neck and shoulders, food impaction between teeth, tooth decay, periodontal disease, and other problems. Because these problems don't always develop and sometimes they develop years after you have lost the tooth, so people often times don't associate the loss of their tooth to the problems it has caused.
The single missing tooth is frequently ignored but the development of dental implants for the replacement of a single missing tooth is encouraging much more people to seek early treatment at the dental clinic in North Delhi.
