Dental Implants have long been applied to jaws of people who have overall healthy teeth but have lost one or two due to injury or disease. A dental implant may actually be tooth saving for there is no need to get support form neighboring teeth which also have to be processed (trimmed and filed down to accept a crown that would also have the crown for the missing tooth attached to it) for a bridge to work. A bridge usually has the to nearest teeth (left and right) cut to size and covered by the same crown as the missing one thus subjecting them to invasive procedures that if not taken care of properly can also be lost. Dental Implants need no support from other teeth rather they support their own weight by having their own anchor (which can either be implanted on the jaw or screwed into the jay bone itself) on which the crown is affixed to.