For people with tooth loss, they can see major impacts on their oral health, bite function, and their overall appearance. Which is why we want to offer a replacement with dental implants. In today’s blog, your Brighton, MA, dentists talk about how dental implants can secure one or more new teeth!
The Loss of Your Jaw’s Strength and Density
What happens to your smile when you lose one or more of your natural teeth? People with missing teeth could feel embarrassed about their appearance, which impacts their quality of life and social interactions. Missing teeth are also linked to complications with meals and even issues with clear speech. Without tooth roots, the body will suspend the flow of calcium and phosphorus to the jawbone around the lost root. Denied these essential nutrients, the jawbone will weaken and erode to create further tooth loss and eventually, an older appearance. To preserve your jawbone, facial structure, and your ability to eat your favorite foods, you may need dental implants!
Placing Dental Implants
Dental implants are small titanium posts, which are screw-like in appearance and biocompatible. We insert these surgically into your jaw, where they act as new roots. The flow of nutrients resumes to keep them and your jawbone intact, so you avoid complications and your new teeth have the potential to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime. Our team will plan and guide the process with advanced digital imaging, and choose the best angle, position, and depth to insert your new roots and keep your smile whole and beautiful!
Completing Your New Teeth
Once we have inserted your new roots, what happens next? For an individual missing tooth, our team could attach an abutment to the implant post and then connect a custom-made crown, which not only looks natural but provides a durable chewing surface. If you have a minor substantial case of tooth loss, then we could use several posts to support a dental bridge or even a set of dentures, so you have a prosthetic that is fixed in place and longer lasting than traditional bridges or removable dentures.
If you have any questions about the process of placing and completing dental implants, or if you want to see if they are right for your smile, then reach out to our team today to learn more and get started. We want to help you smile with confidence and enjoy your best possible smile, so talk to our team about your missing teeth!
Talk to Brighton Family Dental About Implant Dentistry
We want to help you smile with confidence by addressing your missing teeth with a lifelike solution. Learn more about implant dentistry by calling us at Brighton Family Dental Group in Brighton, MA, today at (617) 562-5210.
