When you lose your natural teeth, this could mean major changes to the structure and integrity of your smile. The gradual breakdown could even complicate whether you can receive dental implants. To help rebuild the smile again, your Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgeons could recommend jawbone grafting or sinus lifts.
How Your Smile Changes
When you lose your teeth, the body takes notice and will respond by suspending or diverting the flow of nutrients to the jawbone around the missing root. Without regular doses of calcium and phosphorus from the body, the bone tissue loses mass and density, and begins to break down. This leads to further tooth loss and over time, an aged appearance. This also means that if you want to receive dental implants, there may not be enough bone tissue to properly support them. You’re then limited to tooth loss solutions that don’t preserve the smile the way dental implants will! After all, the body accepts the implant post as natural roots, so your new teeth protect your facial structure and last for decades to come.
The Grafting and Sinus Lift Procedures
If we find you’ve lost jawbone density and cannot support new teeth, we could help rebuild and fortify the jaw with grafting or sinus lifts. Essentially, we take tissue from your jaw or hip, or form a donor or synthetic source, and through oral surgery we attach this to your jaw. This bonds with the bone tissue as it heals, and when we insert the dental implants, this helps further strengthen the jaw. While grafting helps the lower arch, a sinus lift could lift the sinus floor to create new tissue to support your dental implants.
Ensuring Your Comfort
We always take steps to ensure the comfort and wellbeing of our patients, with trained anesthesiologists and sedation options to help you enter a calm and relaxed state, with little to no memory of the procedure at all. We also have detailed aftercare instructions, and will monitor your smile in the following days to ensure everything is healing as it should, and to help prepare your smile for the placement of your new teeth. If you have any questions about how we rebuild smiles or address missing teeth, or if you want to schedule a visit to use your benefits before they expire, then contact our team today.
Do You Have Any Questions About Rebuilding Your Smile?
Our team wants to help you enjoy a complete smile again. To learn more about how we address the breakdown in your smile’s structure and rebuild it to preserve the function, health, and beauty, then schedule a consultation by calling Santa Rosa Oral Surgery in Santa Rosa, CA, today at 707-545-4625.