Benefits of Dental Implants
What happens when you lose a tooth?
If you’re missing one tooth or more, you may find there are other things you miss. You may miss your natural smile, and when was the last time you crunched into an apple or sank your teeth into a mouth-watering steak? Maybe you feel self-conscious about eating or speaking in public. Perhaps your remaining teeth are shifting, or you suffer from muscle strain and headaches. Do you miss the comfort you once experienced in familiar situations at work, home, or with friends?
Naturally, the effects of tooth loss vary from person to person and depend on what has been lost. If you’ve lost a crown, you have lost the visible part of your tooth. If you have lost the root as well, you have lost the unseen part of your tooth and indeed the most important part.
The root anchors the tooth to your jawbone providing support for the crown. Without the root, the bone around the missing tooth will gradually recede, remaining teeth will shift, and chewing will become more difficult with time.
For those who have lost all of their teeth in an upper or lower jaw, the long-term problems are even greater. Because bone shrinks after tooth loss, nerves become exposed and dentures lack support. Loose fitting dentures compound problems and lead to sore gum tissue and additional pain.
Improve Appearance
Each tooth is made up of a crown and a root. The crown is visible while the unseen root anchors the crown to the jawbone, providing stable support. Many options are available for replacing a crown, but only dental implants can replace its root. If the root is not replaced, shrinkage of the jawbone occurs causing your face to appear older. Dental implants can stop this process.
Improve Comfort and Speech
Unlike implants, dentures shift inside your mouth causing mumbling, slurred speech and clicking noises. Gum irritation and pain from exposed nerves are also associated with full or partial dentures. These problems can be eliminated with implants, which are anchored securely to the jawbone. Implant-supported replacement teeth look feel and function like natural teeth, enabling you to speak with comfort and confidence.
Eat What You Want
Typical denture patients, with excellent fitting dentures, eat at 15 to 20 percent of the efficiency of people with natural teeth. Dental implants can restore lost chewing efficiency. This allows you to once again enjoy your favorite foods without thinking twice about it.
Smile with Confidence
With dental implants, your teeth will be secure. You will no longer need to cover your mouth when you laugh or smile.
Maintain Healthy Adjacent Teeth
With traditional practices, two teeth adjacent to a missing tooth must be ground down to place a bridge. Dental implants often eliminate the need to modify healthy teeth, resulting in a more conservative and esthetic restoration.
Long Term Tooth Replacement
A false tooth without a root that is part of a bridge is only temporary. When a root is missing, bone continues to shrink and creates a visible defect under the false tooth. Implants preserve bone and minimize additional dental work. Most Nobel Biocare patients can expect life long replacement of their lost teeth.
Make an Investment
Dental implant treatment may initially seem more expensive than traditional treatment. However, the cost for long-term success with dental implants is often equivalent to repetitive temporary treatment solutions. Implants are indeed a wise investment.
Improve Self-Esteem
With dental implants, you can regain nearly all the capabilities you had with your natural teeth. Most implant patients experience renewed confidence. Your improved self-esteem will allow you to participate in activities you were once restricted from. You’ll be able to enjoy life.
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