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The Dual Benefits of Dental Implants
Cherrywood Dental • Feb 11, 2014
Considering dental implants? We think you’re making the right choice. These tooth root replacements transcend other dental restorations. They not only replace missing crowns to rebuild your smile; they actually delve below the gum line to connect with your jaw bone. This allows for incredibly stability, a natural look and feel, and myriad health benefits. The dual nature of dental implants makes them ideal for both health and aesthetics.
Dental Implants and Your Smile’s Aesthetics
Those missing teeth understand the toll that those gaps take on their smiles. When you have a space in your grin, you’re much less likely to unleash its full power. Patients who have lost permanent teeth tend to cover their laughter and lessen their smiles. And this prevents them from receiving so many benefits that smiling effortlessly and often offers.
With dental implants, you will entirely transform the appearance of your smile. Those troublesome holes between your natural teeth will be filled. Because implants will be attached to the restorations (whether they’re crowns, bridges, or dentures), the restorations will look far more natural. The smile won’t appear to contain false teeth or tooth replacements. The implant-supported restorations will simply look like the real thing. As time passes, you’ll actually forget that you were ever missing a tooth.
Implants have the additional benefit of supporting your existing facial structure. Because they preserve bone density, they prevent your jaw bone from resorbing. This helps to maintain your current appearance and prevent premature aging. Both your smile and your facial structure will be renewed and supported.
Greenbelt Dental Implants and Oral Health
In the same way that implants’ functionality improves aesthetics, it also enhances oral health. Since dental implants are tooth root replacements, they are placed in the jaw bone. Once they are seated within the bone, the implants’ titanium material begins to integrate with the natural bone, through osseointegration. This unique capability makes implants a welcome aid to different aspects of oral health, including
- Tooth health – The spaces left by missing teeth tend to gather bacteria. Food particles find solace in the gap, and they remain there, giving rise to cavities. This can weaken the teeth adjacent to the missing tooth, and even lead to further tooth loss.
- Gum health – Just as the gaps cause cavities, so do they increase the risk of periodontal disease. The soft tissues become irritated and inflamed by the built up bacteria.
- Bone density – When you lose a tooth, the bone below it (that formerly supported it) loses its reason to function. This causes the bone to dissolve and weaken.
Beginning the Dental Implant Process
Since receiving implants requires a surgical procedure, there can be steps patients need to take prior to placement. If bone density is not adequate, a bone graft at the treatment site could be required. If the gums are ailing, periodontal treatment may need to take place. All cavities and oral infections will need to be treated so that the surgery doesn’t give rise to further infections or complications.
No matter your state of oral health, implants could be possible. But Dr. Barzgar or Dr. Pakpour will need to meet with you and examine your mouth in order to establish your implant candidacy. Get started with the implant process today: schedule a consultation. If you’ve been wearing dentures and are ready for implants, our revolutionary Teeth Express program could provide you with both dental implants and accompanying restorations in a single appointment.