The most common complaint with conventional denture wearers is the inability to eat and enjoy certain foods, ie fresh fruit and vegetables, also the inability to chew properly can affect digestion.

Partial dentures are often stabilised with clasps that "hook" onto adjacent teeth. Over time the increased pressure on these teeth can compromise them. In addition partial dentures retain more plaque thereby adversely affecting the gum support of the remaining teeth.

Conventional bridges rely on the adjacent teeth being "ground down" to support the bridge so in effect you could be compromising two or more healthy teeth to replace one missing one.

Implants can help eliminate the above problems.