In the past, people with missing teeth either had to learn to live without them or have dentures made. Unfortunately, dentures did not feel or look natural. Even worse, dentures had the tendency to come loose or fall out while speaking or eating. Fortunately, dental clinics like the Advanced Dental Care of Springfield offer a more modern solution: dental implants.
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In the past decades, merely the idea of having dental implants placed on their mouth was enough to make one shiver in fright. Back then, having implants involved the implantation of various types of devices in the patient’s jaws, particularly between their periosteum and their alveolar or basal bone. Whether these contraptions yielded a huge success rate or not remains to be a mystery, yet these inspired researchers to continually develop and further improve implants.
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