If you have suffered from tooth loss, we want to offer a replacement option that looks and acts like natural teeth. Dental implants can address a single missing tooth or secure a full smile again. In today’s blog, your Celina, TX, dentist talks about how dental implants offer such a lifelike solution to missing teeth.
The Causes and Potential Risks of Tooth Loss
Tooth loss is a serious oral health concern, and one you should have addressed as quickly as possible. When we lose our teeth, this could limit our meal options and deprive us of essential nutrients. Issues speaking clearly could arise too. The body will stop sending doses of calcium and phosphorus to the jawbone around the missing teeth, which increases the risk of further tooth loss and even an aged appearance. To avoid these issues and keep your youthful facial features intact, you need more than just a traditional or removable denture. You need dental implants.
Planning Tooth Replacement
Unlike other prosthetics, a dental implant is actually inserted into the jaw, where they act as a new tooth root. Made from biocompatible titanium, the body sees them as natural root structure and the flow of nutrients returns, so the jaw no longer loses mass and density, and remains intact. Not only does this keep your facial structure in place and prevent further tooth loss, but this also allows your new teeth to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime in some cases.
Jawbone Grafting
We mentioned how tooth loss could weaken the jaw, so what happens if years elapse between losing your teeth and seeing us for treatment? Since dental implants require bone structure to support them, a weakened smile could mean there simply isn’t enough structure to support one or more dental implants. But that doesn’t mean you can’t qualify for dental implants. Instead, we may need to fortify the area to ensure we can address your lost teeth.
With jawbone grafting, we can add new structures to the lower jaw, usually in the form of tissues taken from other parts of your body, or from donor or synthetic sources. This bonds with the jaw and provides a new base for your replacement teeth, so you can enjoy implant dentistry.
Dental Implant Placement
When you are ready and your jaw is prepared to receive dental implants, we will begin the placement process. We plan this in detail with digital imaging technology and guide with digital surgical guides too, ensuring your new implant posts sit at the right angles, positions, and depths to support new teeth. Once these are in place, we can complete the new tooth with an abutment that can connect a crown to the post. The crown is custom-made to look natural and provide a durable chewing surface. But we can also take on more advanced cases of tooth loss, often in only one day! In addition to addressing a single missing tooth, we could also use one or two to support a bridge. But we can also offer alternatives to removable dentures, so you can obtain a complete smile even if you have lost most, or all, of your natural teeth!
All-On-Four Same-Day Dentures
If you have lost most of your teeth, we could extract the last few and then in the same visit, insert as few as four dental implants per arch. These are smaller and more economical than traditional implants, and this means they require less structure, so you could obtain a new smile without the need for grafting beforehand.
We then connect a set of new teeth to them, which are custom-made from durable and lifelike materials. Once connected, this provides a fixed smile that never slips when you eat or speak. This can also last far longer than removable dentures, so you can enjoy a new smile that looks and functions like a natural one. We can also complete this in only one visit, so you leave our office after one visit with a complete smile. You can enjoy your favorite foods again and feel confident in social situations too.
If you have any questions about how we can use dental implants to secure replacement teeth and help you smile with confidence again, or if you want to schedule a visit to start treatment, then contact our office today to learn more. You deserve a full smile, and we want to help make it a reality.
Celina Family Dentistry Provides a New Smile
We want to provide a solution to minor or severe cases of tooth loss. To find out more about our approach to tooth replacement, call Celina Family Dentistry in Celina, TX at (214) 851-0130 today.
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