Missing teeth can throw your bite out of alignment, altering your facial shape. They can also make you self-conscious about your smile. If you choose to replace missing teeth, your dentist may ...

Dental implants have occasionally been used to replace missing teeth throughout history. However, they became more accepted in the 1960s. Since then, their use has become considerably more widespread ...

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 5, 2025 / Research indicates that while tooth loss in American adults has decreased since the 1970s, it's still a common problem. Around 2.2% of adults ...

Tooth loss is extremely common. It’s estimated that 69 percent of adults 35 to 44 have lost at least one adult tooth. By age 74, about a quarter of Americans lose all of their adult teeth. When you ...

A generation ago, many people who lost teeth due to age-related complications typically wore dentures. Now, dental implants ...

Throughout the history of civilization, significant value has been seen in the presence of a complete set of teeth, both for functional and aesthetic reasons. This has driven people all over the world ...

Many of us will lose an adult tooth in our lifetimes, whether through disease or misadventure – a punch that landed, a skateboarding trick that didn’t, say. And if you join these ranks, which include ...