I do a lot of root canal treatment and to make a natural tooth look good, especially your front tooth, is quite easy. To make a front implant look good is extremely difficult. You’ll need multiple surgeries, not only to place the implants but also to graft the gums and all that.
If the patient is quite young, meaning in their 20s or 30s, our skeleton keeps growing so the rest of the teeth will keep moving down but the implant doesn’t move. So when you hit your 50s you’ll have this cosmetic problem that’s very difficult to fix. That’s why we always want to keep the natural tooth because this problem just doesn’t happen with natural teeth.
When your tooth cannot be saved anymore, and you’ve tried everything, then that’s the point where you accept that your natural tooth has done as much service that it can do for you and then you move on to implants.
