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Why Does My Dentist Say I Cant Get an Implant for My Extracted Molar?

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Hello, My dentist extracted my lower molar, because it's suffering with root infection and molar totally dead. At the time of extraction my dentist clean all root and dental bone loss in this, Now im fine and i want to repair my missing tooth with implant, when i contact with my dentist he replied your dental bone loss in extraction because of infections, so you have only one option use detail bridge, Please let me know, why im not able to adopt implant method? :( thnaks

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