Abstract
Millions of patients in this country have to wear partial or complete dentures and a high percentage of these cases have problems of some sort with them. In this article we shall look at some of the problems associated with tooth loss and the wearing of full dentures and the increasing use of dental implants as a means of overcoming some of these problems.
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