The Dental Amputee: What Everyone Who Loses Their Teeth Needs to Know

Professor David Harris

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Book
€14.99

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Publication date: 2015

ISBN: 978-1-907535-10-9

Category: Health

Type: Paperback

Price: €14.99

Severe functional, emotional and psychological distress can follow the loss of teeth. When teeth are removed and dentures fitted they may at first function well but over time the bone structure of the jaw will irreversibly and continually deteriorate, with consequent change in facial contours. This bone loss results in pain, the inability to chew food properly – often to smile and speak properly – and to retain dentures without using an adhesive. If it hasn’t happened to you, you may have little understanding of the negative impact on quality of life, social disability and loss of self-esteem resulting from having to wear dentures. Teeth are a key body part and total tooth loss amounts to an amputation, as suggested by the title, The Dental Amputee.

This book tells the fascinating story of the development of implant technology, which prevents the bone loss that results from dentures and restores function, appearance and self-esteem to those who undergo it. Dental implants offer a solution to tooth loss that, in many instances, patients regard as transformational.

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About the author

Professor David Harris was a specialist oral surgeon in Blackrock Clinic and an associate professor of implant dentistry in Trinity College Dublin. He began implant treatment in 1983 as a member of a small number of international pioneer teams introducing the innovative osseointegration techniques of Swedish Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark into clinical practice. For many years he collaborated with Professor Brånemark in providing postgraduate education to dental professionals and in the treatment of patients, and lectured and published widely on implant dentistry.