Dental implants: No need to fret over missing teeth

  For younger people, the prospect of losing their teeth early in life can be traumatizing. To all such people, modern dentistry offers some smart choices, including ways to treat and save bad teeth, and so also, to replace bad teeth with minted ones. People can lose their teeth because of accidents, lack of care, decay or infection, says Dr Sudhakar Reddy, The director of “ Dental Implant Studio ” in Bengaluru. “I have myself attended to several of such people in the past 12 years; Almost 18,000 dental implants have been placed till now in those who have had teeth replacement surgeries.” One of them is Prakash Nair  (Name changed to ensure patient's privacy) , aged 46. He had a decayed tooth from which infection quickly spread to all the teeth in his lower jaw. Even the bone in the jaw was impacted. Prakash remembers that, at one point, foul smell had begun to emanate from his mouth due to the infection. “I was in much distress.”   Initially, the attempt was to tame the infection