Dental implants have become more and more popular as the preferred option to replace missing teeth. It’s easy to assume they’ve been around for a long time. The reality is that the modern dental implant really began to be used in the 1970s. Dental implant placement is a big part of what we do at Prosthodontics […]
It’s comforting to think that only a handful of people are missing all of their teeth. And if you’re missing a tooth or two — at least it isn’t all of them. Truth be told, none other than the esteemed American Dental Association says that 178 million Americans are missing at least one tooth. And, […]
Despite being relatively common these days, it doesn’t seem that dental implants have been around that long as a tooth replacement option. The truth is, modern dental implants have been used for over half a century. But humans have been trying to replace teeth for much longer than that. Since dental implants are our favored […]
