What is the difference between porcelain teeth and dental implants?

Dental implants: Dental implants are suitable for the restoration of tooth loss in any situation, including single tooth loss, multiple tooth loss, and full mouth tooth loss. Dental implants can be either fixed or removable dentures.

With the advancement of dental implant technology, the indications for dental implants have been very wide, in addition to systemic diseases that cannot tolerate minor surgeries (such as tooth extraction), local factors are mainly whether the bone mass is sufficient, just as good soil is needed for tree planting. There are some patients who require dental implant restoration to have bone insufficiency, but at present, bone deficiency is no longer a contraindication to dental implants, and most cases can be solved by implanting some artificial bone or autologous bone, and it is rare that dental implant restoration can never be done. There is also no definite age limit, as long as the patient's general condition is tolerated.

Porcelain teeth: Porcelain teeth have good edge closure. If you have a friend who feels smelly or painful after wearing steel teeth for a period of time, because the crown of the denture and the natural tooth are not tightly sealed, saliva and food residues will seep into it, and the natural tooth will gradually corrode, resulting in the denture stinkiness, loosening and falling out, which is the result of poor sealing of the edge of the denture.

The production of porcelain teeth requires the edge to be fitted, and at 1mm below the gingival, a special non-water-soluble adhesive material is added to ensure the sealing of the edge. The color of porcelain teeth is real and beautiful. The color can be adjusted to the same color as the real tooth, and the color will not change forever, among which the color of the titanium alloy porcelain tooth is slightly worse, the color of the porcelain tooth and the platinum porcelain tooth are ideal, the color of the all-ceramic tooth is more perfect, and the refractive property is consistent with the real tooth.

To make porcelain teeth, you need to grind your two adjacent teeth and then do a triple crown restoration. If you have dental implants, dental implants do not need to grind small teeth, implants are placed in the filling of your missing teeth, and then abutments and crowns are done on the implants, which will cause less damage to the teeth. It is recommended to do dental implant restoration as well.

Porcelain teeth are fixed on dentures by using good teeth on both adjacent sides of the missing tooth gap, the advantage of this denture restoration method is that there is no foreign body feeling, it is easy to get used to it after being loaded into the mouth, the chewing function is greater than that of removable dentures, but the conditions for the abutment teeth at both ends are better, and when preparing, it is necessary to grind out too many abutment teeth, and this method of repairing teeth is not suitable for the situation that there are too many missing teeth.

The chewing function of using dental implants is much better than that of porcelain teeth, and dental implants do not require the base and snap ring necessary for traditional dentures, and are small in size, metal-free, and beautiful, which is conducive to keeping the oral cavity clean and hygienic. Dental implants have strong retention and stability, and can be rooted in the patient's mouth like real teeth; At the same time, it does not have the dullness and discomfort caused by a large area of plastic base.