Well, an implant is a fake tooth too. I'm going to guess you mean a bridge.
Implant: Titanium post that fuses with the jaw bone and a crown is put on top of it. Brush it, floss it, eat with it like a regular tooth. Initial costs high, but long term costs low.
Bridge: carves down teeth on either side of a space and crowns each tooth with a fake tooth suspended between.
Brush it , chew with it, needs special flossing. get 10 or so years out of it and then do it again. Risks: Carved down teeth may need root canals, or worse (I've seen this alot), carved down teeth so damaged that they need to be pulled in the future, so now what? Initial costs less than an implant, but longterm costs higher due to replacements and possible root canals.
Whats the difference between and implant and a fake tooth? All dentists please answer!!!?
I'm not a dentist, however, an implant is actually attached permanently into the jawbone and probably costs around $2500. By fake, I guess you mean a crown...the dentist drills away part of your original tooth, leaving a "peg" to glue a crown or "fake" tooth to. That usually costs between 6-8 hundred, depending on where you live.
Reply:Technically, an implant IS a fake tooth. An implant is a porcelain crown glued to a titanium screw that has been surgically implanted in the bone. A bridge has a pontic (the fake tooth) and abutments (the crowns on the remaining teeth on either side of the missing tooth). A bridge is all one unit, everything hooked together, so you cannot floss in between it. You have to use a floss threader to go underneath it. An implant is like a separate tooth that you can floss. Hope that helps!
Reply:I'm not a dentist, but I know a lot about teeth and dentistry. An implant is actually attached permanently into the jawbone.A fake tooth , also known as a crown is where the dentist drills away part of your original tooth, leaving a peg to glue a crown or a so called "fake" tooth to it.
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