If you don’t already know, dental implants are a complete root-to-crown tooth replacement. They’re the only restoration to-date that can also compensate for a lost dental root, so they’re pretty popular with both patients and dentists. Maybe this popularity and relative newness of the invention is why there’s plenty of mystery surrounding them. You might have heard, for example, that they can’t develop cavities. Is that true?
You’ll have to keep reading to find out!
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