Three Dental Treatments That Can Be Used With Severe Tooth Decay For Prosthesis

If you do not have any solid teeth for dental prosthesis to be mounted to, you may need other dental treatments. This can include things like crowns, fillings or even dental implants to correct the problem. Depending on how severe your teeth are, a dentist may recommend one of these treatments to make a permanent prosthesis like a bridge, or even for temporary partial dentures for your missing teeth.

Here are three of the possible implant dentistry treatments that a dentist may use for severely decayed teeth to be able to make a prosthesis:

1. Common Fillings For Teeth With Minor Decay

In many cases, fillings are the best solution for minor decay in teeth. If you have any cavities where a prosthesis is going to be mounted, the dentist will first treat the cavities and add fillings. This will make the teeth healthy for mounting any type of dental prosthesis. It is also the most affordable type of solution, but it can only be done with teeth that have minor decay.

If your teeth have too much decay, another type of treatment such as crowns or implants may be a better solution for using prosthesis in your dental restoration.

2. Restoring Severely Decayed Teeth With Root Canals And Crowns

When fillings cannot be done, but there is still a lot of enamel material left on the teeth, root canals and crowns may be used to restore the teeth. This process involves removing the nerve of the tooth and reconstructing the exterior enamel of the tooth. It will give the dentist a solid, healthy surface for dental prosthesis.

If a bridge is used, the crowns will be part of the bridge; when partial dentures are used, the teeth where the partial is mounted will get the crown.  This is an ideal treatment where fillings cannot be done, but teeth are not too severely decayed to require extraction and dental implants.

3. Extraction And Dental Implants For Teeth That Cannot Be Restored

When the enamel of a tooth is severely decayed below the gums, it often requires extraction. If you need a dental prosthesis, this can be a problem if it is a tooth where a prosthesis needs to be mounted. For these situations, a dentist can use a dental implant to create a solid tooth to mount a dental prosthesis. This can be done for any teeth that need to be restored, and be used for treatments like bridges and crowns in dental restoration processes.

These are some of the treatments a dentist may use to restore teeth where are prosthesis is used. If you think you may need dental implants for your dental restoration, contact a dentist that does implants and other procedures to treat these problems.

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