When you lose natural teeth, this could significantly weaken your jawbone. Eventually, you may not be able to support dental implants! But fortunately, we have a way to strengthen the jaw beforehand. In today’s blog, Celina Family Dentistry talks about grafting and sinus lift procedures, and how they strengthen smiles in Celina, TX. We want to make sure your smile can support dental implants and enjoy a full smile again!
The Risks of a Weakened Smiles
When we lose our natural teeth, the body will respond by suspending the flow of essential nutrients to the jawbone. Without these nutrients, the jawbone weakens and erodes, leading to a weakening near then missing teeth that could cause further tooth loss. As this process continues and grows in severity, this could lead to an aged appearance. The smile also may not be able to support one or more dental implants, limiting your tooth replacement options, but we can strengthen the bite with ridge augmentation and sinus lift procedures!
Ridge Augmentation
For the lower jaw, our team could offer a ridge augmentation to strengthen the area. This involves adding new structure to the lower portion, in the form of donor tissues, synthetic materials, or even bone taken from other parts of your own body. We apply this to the lower jaw and it bonds with the underlying bone structure, providing a new base that can support dental implants once the area heals. This helps prevent the appearance of premature aging, and ensures you can maintain your more youthful facial features. Once we insert the dental implants, this will further strengthen the lower portion and protect the smile.
Sinus Lift Procedures
What about the upper jaw? For this area of the smile, we won’t add new structure, instead we will essentially raise the sinus floor to uncover new tissues that can support dental implants, allowing us to address missing teeth in the upper portion of your smile. Our team can then move forward with the placement of dental implants. Since the implants are surgically inserted, the body sees them as natural bone structure, and the flow of nutrients resumes, which keeps the smile intact and strong. Your new teeth can then stay in place for decades to come, possibly a lifetime!
If you have any questions about how we strengthen your smile and complete the placement of new teeth to address missing ones, then contact our office today to learn more and start your journey to a full and beautiful smile again.
Celina Family Dentistry Helps Your Smile with Grafting and More
We want to help restore your smile and ensure your new teeth have the ability to last a lifetime. To provide a complete smile again, please call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX at (214) 851-0130 today.
