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Article: Dental implants: don't call the tooth fairy.
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- October 1, 1989
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DENTAL IMPLANTS: DON'T CALL THE TOOTH FAIRY
Adult tooth loss brings with it many problems, the least of which is lack of under-the-pillow cash flow. Besides causing impaired speech, poor facial contour and low self-confidence, missing teeth can also lead to progressive jawbone loss as well as the inability to keep regular dentures in place. Now, thanks to the introduction of dental implants in the U.S. eight years ago, those with missing teeth can have false teeth or even their original teeth replanted, thus sparing them the pain and expense of being fitted with dentures.
Dental implant procedures, first developed in the 1960s by a Swedish surgeon, involve ...