If you have recently lost one of your teeth or need to have one extracted, you understand the difficulty of adjusting to life with an incomplete bite. While the esthetic effect of tooth loss is quite obvious, your quality of life can dive into actions you once took for granted become more difficult. Certain favorite foods you once loved now threaten to harm the open gap in your smile. Because we use our teeth to form speech, your voice may sound strange afterward. As your remaining teeth compensate for the loss, certain ones take a disproportionate amount of your bite’s force. This can quickly wear them down, accelerating problems with the alignment of your smile. Left untreated, this condition can increase your risk for tooth decay and gum disease, therefore increasing your chances of losing even more teeth! Fortunately, a dental implant can mimic a tooth’s root to secure a permanent replacement tooth above your gumline. These versatile prosthetics hold dental crowns, bridges, and dentures, depending on the severity of your tooth loss.
At Sunny Smiles Family Dentistry, we help patients restore incomplete smiles after experiencing tooth loss. We offer multiple prosthetic options including dental implants to return a full set of teeth. By taking an X-ray of your jawbone, we can determine if you are healthy enough for implantation. When your implant is in place, you can enjoy a more stable bite that returns stimulation to your jaw.
How We Tend To Lose Teeth
What events cause you to lose teeth in adulthood? Neglecting your oral hygiene can lead to conditions where tooth decay becomes advanced. While a dental filling or crown can preserve a tooth injured in this manner when caught early enough, it is possible to lose so much material that restoration is not possible. When this happens, we suggest extracting teeth to prevent decay from spreading elsewhere in your smile.
Poor oral hygiene also leads to the most common reason for missing teeth: gum disease. As gum infection destroys the connective tissue that holds your smile in place, teeth become unstable. Eventually, they become so loose that they fall out or require pulling to wear a set of dentures.
Designing Your Dental Implant
We can take an X-ray of your jawbone to see if it is dense enough to hold a dental implant. When it does, we can insert a titanium post directly through your open socket to fuse with your oral tissues. After healing from surgery, an abutment at the end of your post can hold a dental crown above the gumline!
TALK WITH YOUR DENTIST AT SUNNY SMILES ABOUT A PROSTHETIC SOLUTION FOR MISSING TEETH
To find out more about restorative treatment or plan your next visit, please call our Sunny Smiles location on N Zaragoza Rd in El Paso, TX at (915) 849-9000.