Losing your teeth can be a source of embarrassment and also impact the health and function of your smile too. For a replacement option that looks and functions like natural teeth, our team could offer dental implants. In today’s blog, your Celina, TX, dentist talks about the process of planning and placing dental implants.
The Factors Behind Tooth Loss
What could cause a person to lose a tooth? Tooth loss could be due to a number of factors, including an injury to the face or jaw, untreated tooth decay or infection, or in most cases, the periodontitis stage of gum disease. When our team examines your smile, we will identify the cause and assess the severity of your tooth loss. Our team can then plan the placement of dental implants to address missing teeth and offer a full smile again!
The Impact on Your Smile
You should consider seeing our team for dental implant placement if you lose one or more teeth, or even if you have total tooth loss. Otherwise, missing teeth could limit your meal options and nutritional intake. Tooth loss could also make clear speech difficult and may make you feel embarrassed in social situations. You could also develop an older appearance, as missing roots means the body will stop supplying regular doses of calcium and phosphorus to certain parts of the jaw. Without these nutrients, the bone structure weakens and your smile loses mass and density, which causes further tooth loss and an aged appearance. But we can help your facial structure intact with the placement of one or more dental implants!
Planning Tooth Replacement
We will first ask you about your oral hygiene habits and then take a close look at your smile. If we find periodontal disease is the culprit, we may offer care to manage it and prevent implant failure. Our team will use digital x-rays and CT imagery to choose the best angle, position, and depth to insert your dental implant posts, so they can stimulate jawbone growth and support one or more new teeth. We want to offer tooth replacement with precision and accuracy.
Sedation
The placement process involves oral surgery, as we will surgically insert the new roots into your jaw. We want to take steps to ensure you are comfortable, even if you have dental anxiety. For example, we can numb the area with a local anesthetic and then offer sedation to help you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, with little to no memory of the procedure at all.
Placing Your New Roots
Our team will insert the new posts into the jaw at specific positions, and they will bond with the jaw through a process known as osseointegration. This means they are accepted as natural roots, so your new teeth can stay in place for decades to come, possibly a lifetime. That makes dental implants a stronger and longer-lasting option for addressing tooth loss, so you can smile with confidence for years to come.
Jawbone Grafting
What if years have elapsed since you lost your teeth, and your jawbone has weakened significantly since then? We still want you to receive new teeth, but in your smile’s current state there may not be enough structure to support new roots. With jawbone grafting, our team can strengthen the lower jaw to provide new tissues that can support one or more posts, so you can receive a dental implant or even support a set of new teeth in one visit! For the upper jaw, we could also conduct a sinus lift, in which we essentially raise the sinus floor to ensure there is structure to support the placement of your new smile.
Same-Day Dental Implants
If you have a more advanced case of tooth loss, we could extract the last few teeth and then insert as little as four posts per arch in one sitting. During this visit, we could also attach a new set of teeth to them. In one visit, we can secure a new smile! If you have any questions about same-day dental implants, or about the process of replacing your missing teeth with implant dentistry, then contact our team today to learn more. We are ready to help you smile with confidence and enjoy better oral health and bite function too.
Schedule a Visit for Tooth Replacement
We want to help you enjoy a full and beautiful smile again with the placement of one or more dental implants. To learn more about our prosthetic treatment options, call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX, today at 214-851-0130.
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