What happens if I do not replace a missing tooth?

It is vitally important to replace those missing dental pieces that, for one reason or another, we lose throughout our life, since not doing so can have consequences of varying degrees of severity. When you lose a tooth, the bone surrounding the roots of the said tooth begins a process of resorption, a kind of...

An autogenous transplant of teeth, or autotransplantation, is the transfer of a tooth from its alveolus (cavity that houses a tooth) to a post-extraction alveolus or alveolus prepared surgically in the same person. Dental autotransplantation can be classified into 3 groups: Conventional autotransplantation: surgical movement of a tooth from one site to another in the...

Unlike a dentist, who can be defined as a doctor of the oral cavity, graduates in the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery have surgical and dental history, and are especially qualified to perform cosmetic procedures that include not only the teeth, but the functional and aesthetic aspects of the entire mouth, face, jaws and...

The Spanish Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Head and Neck (SECOM CyC) has published the work 'Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery . Atlas of Procedures and Surgical Techniques', where Professor Federico Hernandez Alfaro, Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, has collaborated as one of the coordinators in the section of Orthognathic Surgery, a complex...