When you suffer from tooth loss, replacing your missing teeth could be crucial for avoiding complications that alter the function of your bite and the appearance of your facial structure. We help restore smiles with implant dentistry, which requires oral surgery. To ensure our Santa Rosa, CA, patients remain calm and comfortable throughout the process, we may suggest dental sedation.
Why Dental Implants Are Often the Preferred Solution
If you lose one or more of your natural teeth, then replacing them is an important step in preserving the future health and integrity of your smile. For many people, the best solution is to replace their lost teeth with an appropriate number of dental implant posts, which are designed to mimic healthy, natural teeth roots. Dental implants can be used to support a custom-designed dental crown, bridge, or denture (depending on how many teeth you’ve lost). They’re often the preferred solution for tooth replacement because they’re the only solution for replacing your lost teeth roots. (more…)
How to Prevent Tooth Loss, or Stop It from Getting Worse
The good news about tooth loss is that, despite it being common, most of the causes behind it are highly preventable. They’re also highly treatable, which means you have time to address them before they become severe enough to lead to tooth loss. However, not everyone recognizes when their risks of losing one or more teeth have risen, or what to do to protect their smiles and prevent the loss of their teeth. Today, we take a look at how you can boost your chances of avoiding tooth loss, and how to preserve your smile more effectively if you do experience it. (more…)
Why the Roots of Your Teeth Matter
Since the crowns of your teeth are the most visible parts of them, it can seem like they’re the most important parts to replace when it comes to addressing tooth loss. In most conventional forms of tooth replacement, a custom-designed dental bridge or denture can be designed to accomplish this with optimal, highly lifelike results. However, the roots of your healthy, natural teeth matter a great deal to your overall oral health. When you experience tooth loss, you may benefit from replacing your lost teeth roots with the help of dental implant posts. (more…)
How Do You Know If You Qualify For a Dental Implant?
Experiencing the loss of a tooth can be rough, both cosmetically and functionally. When a tooth is missing from your smile, it can not only affect its appearance but your bite, jaw support, and overall functionality. In the event this occurs, a great solution includes the placement of a dental implant, as it not only provides a means to fill the gap between teeth, but it then becomes a part of your smile as well. At Santa Rosa Oral Surgery in California, ensuring your comfort and support when receiving an implant is our priority, and are ready to give you a happier, healthier smile with our custom restoration options.
Can Implants Really Prevent Your Denture from Moving?
For many people who wear conventional dentures, one of the common drawbacks is waiting for the restoration to eventually lose its grip and become loose. While modern dentures can be designed to closely match the contour of your dental ridge for a comfortable, secure fit, this fit can change over time, causing the restoration to grow loose and move around uncomfortably over your dental ridge. Fortunately, this problem can be solved for many people by choosing to support their denture on a series of dental implant posts, which can successfully address the underlying causes of loose and moving dental restorations. (more…)
Should Your Replacement Tooth Include a Dental Implant?
The healthy, natural form and function of your teeth are optimal for their long-term health and integrity. Unfortunately, several different conditions may impact the overall function of your teeth, and the loss of one of them can be a significant one. When it comes to dealing with tooth loss, the best way to restore your oral health and avoid the potentially serious consequences of it is to replace the tooth with a lifelike restoration as soon as possible. With their unique ability to replace the roots of lost teeth, dental implants are often the optimal solution. (more…)
How Dental Implants Become Part of Your Smile
There are many reasons why patients who experience tooth loss choose dental implants to restore their smiles. Most of these reason stem from the simple, but significant, difference between implants and traditional restorations – the ability to replace your lost teeth roots. Dental implant restorations include prosthetic dental crowns, bridges, and dentures that are supported by one or a series of root-like posts. Each post is designed to become a part of your smile’s foundation, making your restoration more closely mimic the form, function, comfort, and stability of your healthy, natural teeth. (more…)
Signs that You Might Be at High Risk of Tooth Loss
Tooth loss isn’t always as predictable as it might seem. For example, not everyone is destined to experience it, as many people might believe. In most cases, it results from a differently, highly preventable or treatable oral health condition. Unfortunately, not everyone realizes this, and by ignoring or overlooking seemingly minor oral health concerns, they can allow their risks of tooth loss to become much higher than they expected. Today, we explore a few telling signs that you might be at a higher risk of tooth loss than you realize, and how you might be able to still prevent it and preserve your natural smile. (more…)
Need a Tooth Extracted? Replace It with a Dental Implant
Having to extract a tooth can sometimes be surprising, but once you know it’s necessary, the loss of the tooth structure will no longer be a surprise. Despite this, losing the tooth’s natural structure can still have several important consequences for your immediate and long-term oral health. That’s why tooth extraction is only recommended when it’s absolutely necessary, and that’s also why we often recommend replacing the extracted tooth with a dental implant restoration. Only a dental implant can replace the extracted tooth’s root as well as its visible crown structure, thereby helping you avoid most of the consequences that could stem from losing the tooth. (more…)