The choice of restoring a single missing tooth will depend on the individual. Dental implants can be selected for restoration, but its cost is higher, there are fixed bridge restoration and local removable activity denture restoration.
1. Dental implant restoration: generally missing a single tooth, you can give priority to dental implant restoration, mainly because dental implants do not need to grind teeth, on both sides of the healthy teeth will not cause wear and tear, and dental implants have a strong retention force, can maximize the restoration of dental function, but at present the cost of dental implants is higher, you need to choose according to the individual’s economic conditions.
2. Fixed bridge restoration: If a single tooth is missing, when the individual economic constraints, you can also consider fixed bridge restoration, mainly the missing teeth on both sides of the neighboring teeth in accordance with a certain proportion of grinding small to do porcelain crown bridge or all-ceramic crown bridge to repair, the disadvantage is that it needs to wear down the healthy neighboring teeth, the advantage of the price is low.
3. Partial removable activity denture: If a single tooth is missing, but do not consider dental implants and crown and bridge restoration, you can consider doing a single tooth removable activity denture, but this way of chewing efficiency is low, and need to take off and wear by themselves, the comfort level is low.