if you lose all your molars? Since there would be no back tooth to attach a bridge to, I was wondering. I'm afraid I'm eventually gonna lose all my back teeth and am put off by the idea of dentures. Would my only option be to put implants in the back and use bridges or partials to fill in the gaps?

What are the minuses of implants? What are the posts made out of? More metal......

Hi manonash

I have lost 3 and am planning to get the last one out. I don't miss them.

I don't know the answers as to what to do in the case of losing all molars, but there are implants made from more biocompatible material than titanium!
http://www.integrativedentalmedicine.com/titaniumcorrosion.html

Here is a biocompatible metal free alternative:
http://www.integrativedentalmedicine.com/metalfreeimplantology.html

Dentures maybe your only option in the case of losing so many teeth, but you'd need to discuss this with a biologic dentist to see what can be done in such a case.

Yea, the idea of metal scares me. My husband has had problem teeth all his life. He wants to finish getting them all pulled, and get dentures. The dentist he saw, recommended getting the implants, which are titanium. I told him I don't want him to go that route, because I don't think it would be good for him, and I sure as hell don't want any titanium in my mouth.

When I got the consult from the biological dentist last year, they were trying to figure out a "cost-effective" was for me to do all of this. They told me that they could pull my back molars on both sides, because they are nearly all metal. One will probably have to be pulled and soon, because I think it's severely leaking, and they said there was not much sense in repairing it, because I didn't have a tooth above it (unfortunately I lost a good tooth with no fillings, because it was FUSED to my wisdom tooth, and when it got pulled, so came the back tooth <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> ). On the other side, they said they could pull that back one, but the one next to it is the one that was drilled straight through a huge filling, to do a root canal. It is the one that I have mercury down in my jawbone, and the slivers of metal show up on my x-ray. He said the mercury is right in my blood stream, and that's why I am so sick. They said if that one is unable to be repaired, without the back tooth, they would have nothing to bridge it to. They said I would lose most of my chewing surface, if I lost all of those teeth. I will have to see what the new dentist says about it. It is all so scary!!!!