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Dental Implants | Tooth Replacement
Arizona: Mesa, Gilbert, Apache Junction, East Valley

Dental implants are a safe, permanent alternative to dentures and bridges. Losing a tooth creates a visible gap in your smile, but there is much more than just appearance to consider. It also creates a void in the bone supporting the tooth. Failure to stabilize the jaw bone in these areas can result in severe loss of bone mass, eventually causing even more drastic changes to your appearance and smile. This bone deterioration can severely affect your overall dental health for the rest of your life.

By replacing not just the visible portion of the tooth, but the root as well, the process of osseointegration is prevented, and the jaw remains intact and healthy.

Dr. Beavers is one of only a handful of implant dentists who specializes in the latest implant methods and technology. His commitment to ongoing dental education keeps him on the cutting edge of the latest procedures and techniques. Dr. Beavers is well know for his implant retained dentures and full mouth restorations.

Often times, dental implants, dental bridges, and dental crowns get confused; learn about the differences between all three below...



Dental implants are complete tooth replacements that are permanently implanted into the jaw, so they look and function like natural teeth. Dental implants an ideal solution for teeth that are either already missing or damaged beyond repair. A dental implant consists of a full artificial tooth, including the root, which is permanently implanted into the jaw just like a real tooth.

Benefits of dental implants over other options include that the presence of the tooth root prevents osseointegration, a process in which the bone of the jaw is dissolved and deteriorated due to the absence of the tooth. Also, because dental implants are affixed by the root, they don’t require modification of adjoining teeth to affix them, as dental bridges do.

Dental bridges are replacements for missing teeth consisting of the portion of the tooth that appears above the gum line. Dental bridges are permanently affixed, and allow patients to chew and use the teeth normally, but unlike dental implants, they do not replace the root portion of the tooth.

Dental bridges are affixed to adjoining teeth, as the name implies, like a bridge. This technique allows the tooth to be permanently affixed without being affixed through the gum.

Dental bridges are less invasive and usually less expensive than dental implants, but because they only replace the top portion of the tooth, they cannot prevent osseointegration, the loss of bone in the jaw as a result of the missing tooth. Dental bridges also require modification of adjoining teeth to allow the bridge to be affixed.

Tooth crowns are an option available for repair of severely damaged teeth in which the root and sufficient remaining tooth material are available to affix a cap. If the tooth is missing or too damaged to save, patients still have the option of choosing dental implants or dental bridges for tooth replacement.

To affix a tooth crown, the dentist files away damaged material from the surface of the tooth, and modifies the remaining tooth material to allow the tooth cap, or tooth crown, to be fitted over the top. The dentist then takes a mold of the modified tooth, and uses it as a template to create a new, artificial surface for the tooth, to be permanently affixed to the natural tooth.

For cases in which a tooth is damaged on the surface, but the tooth root and some above-gum tooth material can be salvaged, tooth crowns can be an ideal solution, as they allow the damaged portions of the tooth to be replaced, while keeping the root intact.

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