You lost a tooth recently, and wandered how to replace it effeciently. We discuss here 5 best tooth replacement options for you thier advantages and disadvantages, and what option is suitable for your case, to restore back your smile.
Don’t underestimate this one missing tooth, it could badly affect your smile, your speech, and your chewing ability (when it’s a back tooth).
Suave Dental Clinic in Turkey offers you the best tooth replacement options, affordable yet high-quality, using the latest technologies in dentistry. With our dedicated team, you are in good hands!

Causes of Losing a Tooth

Losing a tooth could be so frustrating, which might be due to several causes, such as:

• Accident or trauma
• Gum disease resulting from poor oral care
• Tooth cavity
• Aging

In most people with poor oral hygiene, teeth don’t last forever. However, don’t worry; we offer the best tooth replacement options for you.

How to choose the best options for you to restore your missing tooth?

The best option to be chosen as tooth replacements depends on many criteria:

• First, we need to assess your oral condition carefully.
• Discuss your preferences.
• Analyse your budget.
• Set a customised plan.

Go with the most suitable tooth replacement option, and don’t worry, our well-trained experts will help you through it.

What Are the Best Options to Replace Missing Teeth?

1- Dental Implants

Dental Implants are considered the best choice for a permanent tooth replacement. This tooth replacement option is mostly suitable when:

• You have healthy jawbones.
• You have healthy, sound adjacent teeth to the missing ones.
• You have time.
• You have no problem undergoing a minor surgery.

How Are Implants Placed?

1. Using local anesthesia, a zirconia or titanium post is placed securely to replace the tooth root.
2. Healing and integrating with the jawbones takes about 2-6 months.
3. An abutment is placed to connect the root post with the tooth crown.
4. A crown is placed to replace the missing tooth.

Pros of dental implants:

• As you are finished with your implant(s), you will never feel uncomfortable.
• No special care is required except for your normal daily oral care.
• Supernatural aesthetics.
• Excellent functioning.
• Durability and superior stability (whether you have a single tooth or multiple teeth in a row).
• Adjacent healthy teeth are never harmed.
• Preserving facial contour and bone health.
• It’s a permanent tooth replacement option that never requires replacement.
• Long life span for 15-20 years when good oral hygiene is preserved.

Cons of dental implants:

• Implants are the most expensive tooth replacement choice (But they’re worth the investment).
• It requires the surgical insertion of the post into the jawbones.
• Prolonged healing time before crown placement (2-6 months).
• Implants require multiple visits to finalize the procedure.

2- Tooth-supported Fixed Bridge

The two-unit dental bridge is the second most widely used option worldwide for permanent tooth replacements.

These tooth replacements depend on adjacent teeth to replace your missing tooth/teeth. It can be Ceramic, zirconia, porcelain, metal, or even acrylic resin. From its name, the missing tooth gap is bridged by a customised tooth. These are the second-best choices for permanent tooth/teeth replacement.

A traditional dental bridge is most suitable when:

1. You have one or more missing teeth.
2. You have endodontically treated adjacent teeth that need full tooth capping.
3. You have restored the adjacent teeth with large dental fillings, ond/or a tooth/teeth with a post and core.
4. You are medically compromised so that you can’t withstand oral surgery.
5. Old patients that has compromised bone integrity and osseointegration.
6. You need a budget-friendly option for tooth replacement.
7. You have limited time.

Tooth-supported dental ridge could be three or four units made of high-quality dental crown material like zirconia, e-max porcelain, and empress porcelain.

Pros: 

• Affordable option to replace missing teeth with high-quality material 
• Avoid oral surgeries
• Provide full coverage crowns for adjacent teeth during the same procedure if needed.
• Strong and functioning 

Cons:

• A less conservative option for adjacent sound healthy teeth.
• If done wrong, it may harm the gingival and periodontal surrounding tissues.
• If cemented wrong to the abutment teeth, it may need replacement in the future.
• Shorter life span compared to a dental implant.
  

3- Maryland Dental Bridge

• The tooth fits into the gap and is secured by metal or resin-bonded small wings bonded to the backs of adjacent teeth.
• Best used to replace front teeth, as it can’t withstand heavy chewing forces on the back teeth.

Pros:

• Budget-friendly tooth replacement option.
• It requires no surgical intervention.
• It provides a natural look.

Cons:

• Some adjustments or replacements to the bridge may be needed in the long run.
• If a leakage happens, bacteria can get underneath the wings, decaying the healthy teeth.
• Low stability and retention, so that it could easily fall off or be distorted. 
• Not functioning, it just restores the natural tooth look.
• Limited life span from a couple of months to a year or two. 

4- Removable Partial Dentures

This is the cheapest option for tooth replacement. Yet it provides a satisfactory result.
Although partial denture for one tooth is a removable prosthesis, with limited uses to replace a missing tooth. But some dentists still could use it for some cases: 

• Used as a temporary tooth till the patient undergoes the fixed prosthesis procedure treatments.
• Used as a fake tooth/ teeth for a limited time.
• Used to replace more than one tooth in old and geriatric patients.
• Used for patients who need tooth replacement but can’t afford it.

Pros:

• It requires no surgery and no adjacent teeth trimming.
• We just need to take precise dental impressions of your teeth for ideal results.
• It’s removable; you can remove and insert the appliance whenever needed.

Cons:

• It needs daily cleaning. 
• It’s less stable, as it depends on tiny clasps that hold it to the neighbouring teeth.
• Less durable 
• Less aesthetically pleasing than fixed replacement options.
• Less functioning 
• A removable partial tooth could be accidentally swallowed and cause airway obstruction, or it could reach the digestive system and harm your body.

5- Cantilever Dental Bridge

It’s the least favorable option to be chosen to replace a missing tooth. Although it has some use cases:

• Used when there’s only one abutment tooth available

Unlike the teeth-supported fixed dental bridge, the cantilever fixed bridge is considered to be a one-tooth-supported dental bridge, with one crown covering the adjacent tooth, connected to a pontic that hangs over from the place of the missing tooth.

pros:

• A cost-effective fixed tooth replacement option for some patients.
• Could replace one missing tooth in the front (anterior) or the back teeth(posterior teeth)
• Restore the tooth shape only.

cons:

• Limited function 
• Shorter life span compared to a traditional dental bridge.

• Not strong enough as a traditional bridge to withstand the heavy chewing forces.
• Unbalanced mastication forces because of the one-tooth support, which severely harm the abutment tooth:
  • Fracture and/or loosening of the supporting tooth over time.
  • The bridge fracture occasionally occurred under the uneven distribution of forces.
  • The bridge itself may debond from the abutment tooth, causing bacterial leakage and decay of the abutment tooth.

The Best Options to Replace a Missing Front Tooth

Front teeth have a major impact on aesthetics and speech; they also affect a person’s confidence.
Dental implants remain the best replacement option for replacing front teeth.
The Anterior fixed dental bridge is made of E-max porcelain and ceramics.
And the final suitable option to replace a missing front tooth is a Maryland dental bridge.

Best Options to Replace a Missing Back Tooth

Superior strength, stability, and bone preservation are prerequisites for a back tooth replacement.
Dental implants are generally considered the best permanent solution. 
Followed by Traditional Fixed Dental Bridges, which remain the most affordable and suitable fixed option to replace a missing back tooth, when made of zirconia crowns, their efficacy reaches its peak.
A Partial denture serves as a choice while compromising on stability and comfort compared to other fixed choices.

The Cost of Tooth Replacement Options in Turkey

Turkey is one of the top destinations in dental tourism. Costs of dental replacement are 50%–70% less when compared to the US and UK, while still receiving high-quality care.

• A dental implant cost in the USA, Europe, and Canada can range from $3000 to $4500 per tooth, and a full-mouth dental implant replacement ranges from $70,000 to $90,000.
• While in Turkey, a dental implant can range from $400 to $700 per tooth, and for a full-mouth dental implant replacement, the cost ranges from $ 8,000 to $ 12,000.

FAQs Of Best Tooth Replacement Options