Restoring your smile is about more than just making it look the way it did before you developed an oral health concern. For example, restoring a damaged tooth doesn’t just make it look healthy again, but also restores its health and structural integrity so you can fully bite and chew with it again. The same is true when restoring your smile by replacing one or more lost teeth. The appearance of your smile after the loss may be highly noticeable, but your restoration should help reestablish all of the teeth’s functions as well as their appearance. In many cases, that’s only possible with the help of an appropriate number of dental implants.
The important role of dental implants
The most important role of a dental implant is to replace the root of a lost tooth, which has several different implications for both your restoration and the rest of your oral health. The roots of your teeth are the foundations that give them the strength and stability to bite, chew, and perform all of their other functions. They’re also essential components in the long-term health and integrity of your jawbone structure. The stimulation they provide is the signal your body needs to send your jawbone an ample supply of minerals and nutrients. Without one or more teeth roots in place, this stimulation diminishes, and your surrounding oral and facial structures will feel the consequences over time.
How they offer better support for your restoration
One of the most immediate benefits of receiving dental implants is the improved support that they offer your dental restoration. Conventional bridges and dentures are designed to stay in place using innovative techniques such as abutment teeth and crowns, or hidden clasps. While effective, these methods can provide only a fraction of the stability and support that teeth roots provide. By contrast, dental implants mimic that support by replacing your lost teeth roots, thereby anchoring your dental crown, bridge, or denture in place with much more realism.
What this means for your long-term oral health
The impacts of replacing lost teeth roots go beyond the immediate benefits of a more comfortable and stable restoration. While this comfort impacts your daily use of your restoration, the more profound impacts involve the preservation of your jawbone and other oral and facial structures. Dental implants are the only solution for reestablishing the stimulation these structures rely on. Therefore, they’re the only way to slow or stop the resulting loss of mass and density in your jawbone, as well as the heightened risks of further tooth loss, that can occur after you’ve lost one or more teeth roots.
Learn how dental implants improve your oral health
Replacing your lost teeth with dental implants can improve your long-term oral health is several ways that aren’t possible with more traditional restorations. To learn more, schedule a consultation by calling Santa Rosa Oral Surgery in Santa Rosa, CA, today at 707-545-4625.