Dental implants could be the best solution for replacig lost teeth.
Having dental implants installed can help patients stop their teeth from splaying and becoming crooked, leading to them needing to be removed, it has been claimed. 
Tim Burke wrote in a blog post for the Palm Beach Post that when a patient loses a tooth, the rest of the mouth can lose support – normally through bone loss in the jaw or a lack of posterior support – resulting in increasing problems for the patient.
However, by installing dental implants a permanent solution can be achieved, which provides both support to the surrounding teeth and gives the jaw bone a tooth to hold on to so it will not contract and weaken in that area.
Mr Burke noted: “With the correct bite on the posterior teeth and a permanent retaining wire bonded to the inside of the upper front teeth, you will not fall victim to splaying again.”
Elsewhere, Sreenivas Koka, chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Dental Specialties, recently noted dental implants – rather than bridges or dentures – could be a more suitable and aesthetically pleasing solution to tooth loss for many patients.
