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Dr. Michael Sanders
Eagle Summit Dental Group
10928 Eagle River Road Suite 240
Eagle River, AK 99577
Tel. 907 694-8234
Fax 907 694-8225
Dr. Sheva Nickravesh
Eagle Summit Pediatric Dentistry
10928 Eagle River Road Suite 240
Eagle River, AK 99577
Tel. 907 694-8222
Fax 907 694-8225
Map to our office
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Learn The Facts About Implants
Avoid Further Problems by Knowing the Options
The goal of modern dentistry is to help patients keep their teeth in the proper form, function and esthetics for a lifetime. Although dentistry has progressed perhaps faster than any other form of medicine in the past 50 years, teeth are still inevitably lost due to infections, cavities, periodontal disease and trauma. The question that is inevitably asked after tooth loss is, “What now?”
For the majority of the modern dental era, the answer was to either crown the adjacent teeth and make a ‘bridge’ to replace the missing tooth or to fabricate a removable denture that filled the space. These treatment options served multiple purposes and still offer many advantages. However, since the first dental implants were placed in the 1950s, the placement and restoration of a dental implant has become the ‘standard of care’ for treating single or multiple missing teeth.
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