Good DAy. What are the good and bad side effects of tooth implants?

Good effects :


Implants are the best replacement for your "missing or non savable" teeth available in the market right now.





Bad effects :


1. Remember implants are best for replacing missing teeth or non savable teeth. If your tooth can be saved by doing R.C.T. you should go for R.C.T., rather than getting implant. Implants are artificial prosthesis. While R.C.T. treated tooth is your own natural tooth. Even the best artificial prosthesis cannot be better than natural body part.





2.About 50% of the implants placed by a General dentist are a failure. Which means they will have to be replaced within 5 - 7 years.





3. Implants are expensive. A single tooth implant could cost about 3000 to 5000 $. Price of a R.C.T. including crown that is placed after R.C.T. is about $ 1400 - 2400 (depending on the tooth). An implant dentures that replaces all teeth on the top and the bottom could run around 15,000 - 20,000.





4. Implants are time consuming. Takes about 3-6 months for the complete procedure which involves surgery and multiple dental visits. ( Which means time off from work and loss of wage etc. )





And finally there is something that not even your dentist will tell you. Most of the dentist will opt for R.C.T. over Impant in their loved ones . These are the same dentist who will tell you to go for Implant rather than R.C.T.

Good DAy. What are the good and bad side effects of tooth implants?
I think the only bad thing about them is the Rods they have to put in your mouth...its surgery...and the other thing is the Price...the good is the look and no dentures
Reply:you may grow an extra nut sack
Reply:good side is they are great look and they are there 4 good but very exipensive cause i want some to.
Reply:I work in a dental office and all of my patients who have had implants love them. They say that they would much rather go through the procedure of getting an implant than a root canal.





A downside of implants is that it is a long process and can last 3-6 months or even longer to allow for proper healing and bone integration. And implants are costly and not always covered by dental insurance.
Reply:I had 5 lower jaw implants done about 18 or more years ago and never regretted it. I disagree with some of Perry's comments:





They are expensive, my 5 implants totaled 10,000 but in all these years have not had to have a thing done to them so that is cost saving over that long a haul.





It is done surgically but I went home the same day. The dowside is it took a total of 9 months (felt like giving birth to a baby)- and that was due to the need for absolute preciseness to be in alighnment with your upper teeth or dentures and it is worth it. We traveled 4 hours round trip and put on about 2,000 miles total living 120 miles from the hospital.





I am sure, since that long ago, the procedure has been refined and possibly reduced in cost. You must floss around the bases of the posts to keep grom having gingivitis set in but that is the case with one's own teeth. The jaw bone integrates with the post implanterd into the jaw as it has tiny holes that bone grows through and it is virtually impossible to break the posts. Insurance so far does not p[ay, claiming it isd a cosmetic thing but had I not had it done, I would be on baby food or gumming it as our bone shrinks with age and lower dentures no longer fit.





One can onlhy be thankful for this high tech method. Many get by with only 1 or 2 implants but I chose to go for the limit of 5 so it need not be that costly. Go for it if you can. The procedure causes pain for a few days and Tylanol takes care of that. The lengthy time is due to many things. You will be shown about a 15 min. film of the procedure before you have to make up yhour mind. You have to be mentally able to go thru it so they do not,or did not,then,accept everyone





Perry's comment about 50% having to be redone or lasting only 5-7 years in no way reflects my many years success. Perry are you a dentist who does implants as very very few do even now..My surgeon and dr. in charge of alll the con-struction gave talks all over the world and I could not have had a better person do it. He was precise, very very careful, a perfectionist which probably accounted for it taking 9 months.


I'd go thru it again regardless but unless you do implants-you


might not have all the right answers let alone actual hands-on experience.



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