Missing teeth can lead to poor oral health and embarrassment, and even impacts on your overall quality of life. But we can address your missing teeth with dental implants, an option that will look and function like natural teeth. In today’s blog, your Prairie Village, KS, dentist talks about obtaining full smiles with implant dentistry.
The Benefits of Treating Tooth Loss
Tooth loss can lead to major issues for the health, function, and beauty of your smile. For example, missing teeth can limit your meal options and deprive you of your favorite dishes and certain nutrients too. Losing your teeth can cause issues with clear speech and embarrassment in social situations. Your jawbone could also erode as the body stop sending doses of calcium and phosphorus to the jaw, which leads to further tooth loss and or many, an older appearance. But with dental implants, we can replace missing teeth and also preserve the integrity of your jaw and facial structure!
Placing Your Dental Implants
We will first examine your smile to choose the best angles, positions, and depths to insert your dental implants. These are small titanium posts, which are biocompatible and bond with the jawbone to keep your smile intact. We will guide them in place with digital technology and once inserted, they will act like new tooth roots. We can place one to address an individual missing tooth, or use several to support a bridge or even a full set of dentures.
Completing Your New Tooth (or Smile)
Once we insert your post, we can attach an abutment to it that allows us to connect a custom crown, completing your new tooth. The crown will be designed to blend with your smile, ensure proper bite balance, and absorb daily bite forces and pressures. For cases of multiple missing teeth, we could attach a custom bridge or even a set of dentures, which last far longer than traditional bridges or removable dentures. You will enjoy new teeth that look and function like natural ones, and that can last for decades to come with proper care and attention.
If you have any questions about how we take on your tooth loss with dental implants, or if you want to address the gaps in your smile right away, then contact our team today to learn more. We want to help you on your journey to a full smile this summer, so reach out to our team to get started.
Learn More About Implant Dentistry
Our team wants to help you feel great when you smile, and dental implants can do that! To schedule an appointment for tooth replacement, just contact Robert M. Browne DDS in Prairie Village, KS by calling (913) 901-8585.
