Losing a tooth doesn’t mean the end for your smile
We understand, when you lose a tooth you do experience some consequences that can make life physically and emotionally tough. There’s hope though—your smile CAN be restored. Dental implants offer a lifelike replacement to natural teeth that is indistinguishable from real teeth. Furthermore, implants prevent and correct issues that tooth loss brings such as:
As a result of losing teeth, your jawbone that used to support the teeth begins to disintegrate due to lack of stimulation. When you chew, speak, and engage in other activities involving your teeth they stimulate the jawbone. This makes your body absorb minerals from the bloodstream to build more bone material. However, with no teeth to signal the jawbone, it eventually suffers atrophy and withers away. This changes your facial structure and can leave some people unrecognizable over time.
When losing your teeth, the way the remaining teeth function and break down food can be negatively affected. This often results in a misalignment of your bite as support from the missing tooth is not there. Without treatment, this issue will worsen and teeth may shift behind each other. The consequences of this can be severe and affect more than just oral health. Furthermore, food particles or bacteria can get trapped between the teeth which are not aligned properly, making it difficult to floss and bringing about frequent oral infections and halitosis.
Since tooth loss impedes chewing, this means it also ends up altering your diet and you may find that foods you enjoy are no longer edible due to your tooth situation. More important than that is many of those foods have nutrients your body needs so you end up losing out on vital minerals and vitamins as well. Digestion is important for nutrient absorption and chewing is the most important tool in proper digestion.
Many people who have lost more than one tooth may think dentures are a viable option since they are less expensive than dental implants. They could be shocked to discover that the cost of dentures could be comparable to or higher than the latter. How can this be? Dental implants may involve a lower upfront investment— however, other costs related to bone loss, such as denture slippage begin to stack up over time.
That’s because dentures will not fit the same when the jawbone begins to change your facial structure. Often, patients will have to get new dentures made to accommodate. Yes, you guessed it—more money down the drain.
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