With increasing life expectancy in India, old age no longer means being tucked into bed all day with failing eye sight, hearing and false teeth set out on the nightstand. The twilight years have now become the time to have all the fun, you missed out on during those office years. And the advancement of science and technology has certainly made this possible now.

One of the most conspicuous affects of old age is losing ones teeth. Fortunately, it is no longer an affect that needs to make you hide under the covers. Dental science has made huge leaps in implant and aesthetic dental solutions.

Dattatray Barve, 70, from Pune, who lost all his teeth due to periodontal disease thirty years back, opted for removable dentures as there was no other alternative available during those years. He has used six different dentures during these years giving him multiple problems like slipping of dentures causing embarrassment, restrictions to eat comfortably, feel and look older. Recently he underwent the dental implant surgery for all his missing teeth with prosthesis placed on eleven implants. Dr Nitin Barve, general dentist, who has performed this surgery on his father, for the first time in Pune says, “This new set of fixed implants will be the third set of teeth in human life following primary and permanent dentition. Being a general dentist, I will emphasis on a point that a Nobel Biocare protocol for guided keyhole surgery is really comfortable for patients and assured for their further journey of life."

Modern medical science has made it possible to have permanent dental solutions that don't embarrass you. When all teeth are missing, or in such condition that they need to be replaced, a fixed bridge anchored to dental implants provides the best permanent solution. In any case, old-fashioned dentures have only two advantages – low price and easy installation – and many disadvantages, including discomfort in eating, poor aesthetics, affected speech, and sore gums from denture movement. But full dental implants let you carry on with life without hitch in your stride. Not only does it let you eat and function like having natural teeth, it also preserves your facial appearance and prevents bone loss. Your new teeth should be hard to tell from natural – both for you and others.

So, chuck those boring old dentures. Get new teeth if that's what you need and, of course, keep smiling.