Dental prosthesis

Dental prosthetics are necessary in the following cases:

• With complete (edentulous) or partial loss of a tooth.
• After endodontic treatment.
• When severe damages to the teeth.
• To restore chewing function.

Partial or complete absence of a tooth is a rather serious problem that should not be underestimated and postponed for later:

1. If the tooth is absent completely, in this place the bone tissue of the jaw decreases rather quickly – this makes it difficult and makes prosthetics more expensive in the future.
2. Teeth located on the other jaw (antagonist teeth) tends to move towards an empty space and deteriorates gradually.
3. Neighboring teeth with absent one are shifted to this empty space – large gaps appears, and prior orthodontic treatment may be required for prosthetics.
4. When partial destruction of the tooth, if you do not carry out the prosthesis in time, its further complete destruction occurs.
5. When the chewing function is impaired, the organs of the gastrointestinal tract are affected.
6. When improper occlusion (teeth joining), the remaining teeth are experienced serious overloads and destroyed quickly.
7. The loss of some teeth, or a large number of teeth can lead to a violation of diction, changes in facial features (drooping of the lips, cheeks), etc.

Delaying is not only harmful to health, but also makes the treatment and prosthetics of the teeth in the future more difficult, long, and the cost increases.

Common contraindications to prosthetics include:

• Acute diseases, as well as some serious diseases (cardiovascular system, respiratory organs, etc.) in the stage of their escalation.
• Mental illness, drug dependency.
• Contraindications preventing local anesthesia.
• Condition after radiation therapy.
• Severe exhaustion.
• Pregnancy, etc.

Removable rehabilitation

• Partial and full removable dentures.
• Temporary dentures.
• Bugel dentures.

Non-removable rehabilitation

The most popular and common type of prosthetics, when the teeth are fixed on a permanent basis.

As a rule, in the absence of specific recommendations, it should be choose non-removable prosthesis.

The doctor makes teeth impression. After that:

1. The doctor together with the patient selects the color of the future crown, which should match the color of the patient’s teeth.
2. With a long wait, for example, for preparation, implantation, etc., the temporary crowns are installed to the patient.
3. The laboratory stage of prosthetics consists in the manufacture of dental prostheses by technicians based on the task set by the orthopedic surgeon.
4. After transferring the manufactured prostheses to the clinic, the doctor tries on the crowns, checks the contacts, makes adjustments if necessary. After that, the prosthesis is fixed (in the case of non-removable prostheses), or the removable prosthesis is transferred to the patient.