Great video.

Excellent video. It's a shame it doesn't have many views but I watched it all and found it very interesting. Further to the drawings you used, another case would be where the patient has a broken bridge taken out and then delays further treatment. The result is that the 2 supporting teeth of the bridge start to shift inwards towards each other.

I have a 3 unit dental bridge and it’s been a year now but i am very worried about the bone loss I don’t have any other issue with my bridge but the thought of bone loss worries me too much , should I switch to an implant? I am 24 right now , how much bone loss can happen in a year or two ? Will i still be able to get an implant?

Hi doc need my teeth done but how can I contact u to consultation about my Teeths and I would like find out how much it cost thanks 🙏

Hi doc, I had a 5 unit bridge from 1st premolar to 3rd molar in the upper left jaw. The premolar had a root canal and in 1.5 years cracked under the bridge, was extracted and the bridge removed. After that I got a partial denture to replace those 4 teeth. I hated wearing it and eventually went for an implant option , had a sinus lift/bone graft surgery a month ago, everything is healing well. The surgeon said it would be 6 months before he places 3 implants and then another 4 months for the crowns. When I think about it now it was a bad decision going for the bridge, not only I wouldn’t have lost that tooth but also cost me $5000 for the bridge and $1300 for the partial which is now wasted and my current implant scenario would be cheaper 😂 I hope everything goes well, the only problem I’m facing now is that I also have another 4 unit bridge about 20 years old in a similar location on the other side and that bridge could get overloaded from extra chewing it takes for about a year. Occasionally it gets sore, it didn’t before. I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks very much for the great videos doc, keep educating us please.

@johnjazayeri

Жыл бұрын

Hi Andrew. I see that you're moving forward with the implant treatment. Good luck! I had a feeling that you would be doing implants sooner or later. Partial dentures that cover only half the teeth are very inconvenient. I'm sure that you'll be very happy when the implants are completed! My advise to you is to take it easy on the bridge side until you finalize your implant treatment. The bridge will take lots of stress during this time. Avoid hard foods, cut your food in small pieces, etc. Once you receive the implant crowns, you should be okay. Also, be sure to ask your dentist to calibrate the bite at the end. You want to put your bridge in "light contact". In other words, you want to put more stress on the implant crowns and your natural anterior teeth and less on the bridge. This will protect the bridge to buy you as much time as possible (20 years is wishful thinking, but who know!) Best of luck and keep me posted on how things goes.

@Andrew21882

Жыл бұрын

@@johnjazayeri Thank you very much doc for your recommendations and suggestions. I promised to myself, no more bridges in the future . Keep educating us. Your videos are golden.

Thanks, new subscriber. You mentioned we can post our panoramic x-ray here for you to comment on, but KZread doesn’t let us post an image. How do I go about to do that?

@johnjazayeri

3 ай бұрын

Hi there. Email me at alijohnj at gmail

@ee7369

3 ай бұрын

@@johnjazayeri thank you. I will send it shortly. I hope you can help me with this. I will definitely send my testimony about my experience.

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I got a bridge to replace 2 missing teeth on my right side last month and I’m already thinking about changing it to implants. I had to shave down a perfectly nice canine to be one of the abutment teeth, and the crown looks kind of bulky on it. The bridge is nice quality but it still looks like a bridge. I’m worried about bone loss, etc. Would it be crazy to replace the bridge with implants for no other reason than I changed my mind? I feel like I made a mistake and wanna correct it before I lose too much bone.

@johnjazayeri

7 ай бұрын

Hi Stacy. Great question! So you were missing your two bicuspid teeth and your dentist convinced you to put a bridge instead of getting two dental implants. I wouldn’t even offer the bridge as an option to my patients. Like you said, the bridge will feel bulky, and also look unnatural. Plus, you should never, ever use a canine tooth as part of a bridge. There’s something about the curvature of the jaw that makes the bridge fail over time. Finally, when you get dental implants, you actually have two posts that the bite forces get distributed on. In contrast, with a bridge, you double the forces on the supporting teeth. Ouch! Now, having said all of that, would I take out a recently done bridge and replace it with a pair of implants? Personally, I would not. You cannot undo the damage to the two shaven down teeth. As far as bone loss, they can always repair the bone, even 20 years down the line. What’s done is done. And even if you were to replace your bridge with dental implants at this point, you would still need crowns on the canine and the molar tooth. Probably more headaches and costs than it’s worth it at this stage. I’ll tell you a quick story. Just last week I had an older patient that came to me to replace her bridge. She wanted dental implants. Her bridge was from a canine tooth all the way to the wisdom tooth. Six unit bridge supported by just two teeth. This thing should basically be illegal LOL. I asked her how old her bridge was. She said about 20 years. I asked her if she was able to chew on the bridge before it broke. She said yes. I asked her if she has any TMJ problems or headaches. She said no. In conclusion, I recommended her to replace her six unit extensive bridge with a new bridge and forgo dental implants. Some bridges just last a lifetime and there’s no need to replace them with dental implants. I hope this helps and best of luck to you!

@stacyg585

7 ай бұрын

@@johnjazayeri Gosh, I feel so stupid for making the decision I did. The dentist told me about the implant option but she also told me that the bridge will look great and natural and it will be less invasive and will take less time and less expensive, etc. And it just seemed like it was the right decision. I wish I had gotten a second opinion. It doesn’t look horrible and my husband keeps telling me it looks great, but I just can’t get over thinking that I destroyed my mouth.