Losing teeth is a serious concern, but fortunately, recovering from tooth loss isn’t as difficult as it used to be. With today’s highly lifelike dental restorations, including custom-designed dental bridges and dentures, most people can recover their healthy bite function and confidence in their smiles after experiencing tooth loss. With the addition of dental implants, the process of recovering from tooth loss and preserving the health of your smile is even more successful, and qualifying for dental implants can often be easier than you might expect. (more…)
Identifying Your Biggest Risk of Tooth Loss
The good thing about tooth loss is that, for many people, it isn’t as inevitable as they may believe. In fact, most people have a good chance of avoiding tooth loss completely by taking consistently good care of their teeth and oral health. However, that doesn’t mean you aren’t at risk for experiencing tooth loss. People can lose teeth for a variety of reasons, and your risk factors for developing such conditions can greatly impact your overall risks of losing one or more teeth. (more…)
Relying On Dental Implants To Secure Your Dental Bridge
In many situations, a patient receiving a dental bridge will have their restoration secured with the use of two dental crowns, These are located at either side of the actual replacement tooth (or replacement teeth). Once the teeth surrounding a smile gap have been capped, a person can enjoy the stability of a permanent dental restoration. While this can offer many benefits, there are advantages that dental implants provide that a bridge secured with crowns cannot offer. One big benefit to prosthetic work with dental implants is the ability to restore stimulation in your jaw that will help preserve the bone. Another benefit to using dental implants is that your prosthetic work will not require you to put crowns on healthy teeth. At our oral surgery office in the Santa Rosa area, we can talk with you about using dental implants instead of crowns to secure a custom bridge. (more…)
What You Don’t Have to Worry About With Dental Implants
After successfully dealing with any oral health concern, you can ideally stop worrying about it and any potential affects it might cause your smile. The right oral health treatment can help you address most oral health concerns in a way that stops their progression entirely and helps you restore any natural tooth structure or oral tissues that may have been compromised. However, when it comes to tooth loss, replacing the tooth with a conventional restoration isn’t enough to stop all of the impacts to your oral health. Today, we look at how dental implants more fully restore your smile after tooth loss, and how their lifelike support can eliminate many of the concerns that come with more traditional replacement teeth. (more…)
What to Know if You Need Jawbone Grafting
The fact that everyone’s smile is unique can have greater implications than you might realize at first. Not only does it mean that your smile looks like no one else’s, it also means that the oral health concerns you experience and the appropriate methods of addressing them can also be unique to your specific oral health status. For example, when it comes to rebuilding your smile after losing one or more teeth, many people require more than just a custom replacement for the teeth. They may also need one or more treatments to restore their smile’s supportive structures, such as jawbone grafting, in order to support their lifelike tooth replacement. (more…)
The Point of Extracting and Replacing a Tooth
For most concerns that involve the health and integrity of your teeth, addressing the concern typically means preserving as much healthy, natural tooth structure as possible. Doing so improves the long-term state of your oral health, and in many cases, it means avoiding the loss of the tooth. However, in severe cases, saving a tooth might not be possible, and the best thing for your oral health overall may be to extract it. After the problem is removed, we can restore your smile’s appearance, your bite’s function, and your oral health by replacing it with a custom-designed, dental implant-supported restoration. (more…)
How Dental Implants Perform Long-Term
The appearance of your smile is an important aspect of your oral health, but healthy and attractive teeth are much more than just accessories. They play several vital roles in your everyday life, and when you lose a tooth, the consequences can be more complex than you realize at first. Because of this, many patients benefit most from replacing their lost teeth with one or more dental implants. The innovative, biocompatible posts are made to support a restoration in a similar way as healthy teeth roots, which vastly improves the stability and comfort of most dental restorations. This also has several important long-term advantages, both for your restoration’s quality and for the overall state of your oral health. (more…)
How Implants Stop Your Restoration from Moving
Today’s modern dental restorations, such as bridges and dentures, have advanced significantly from their traditional versions. For instance, today’s bridges and dentures can replicate your healthy, natural tooth structure so well that they remain virtually indistinguishable from the rest of your smile. However, if you’ve worn a dental bridge or denture for a while, then you may have experienced the uncomfortable shifting and moving of your restoration as its grip has grown loose. Today, we examine how dental implants help stop this from occurring so you can enjoy a more comfortable and lifelike dental restoration. (more…)
3 Important Benefits that Come with Dental Implants
For custom-designed replacement teeth that are supported by one or more dental implants, the benefits compared to more traditional restorations are many. Dental implants, which are designed to mimic the form and functions of healthy, natural teeth roots, can give your dental bridge or denture a level of stability that isn’t possible without them. Today, we examine what that means for your oral health, your bite function, and your restoration’s comfort and capabilities, and why these are among the most important benefits of dental implants. (more…)
Is It Difficult to Replace Lost Teeth with Dental Implants?
Tooth loss can be complex. While replacing one or more lost teeth can seem simple, it might be more challenging than you expect to address all of the potential consequences of tooth loss, such as the loss of your natural teeth roots. The good news is that dental implants can help most patients who experience tooth loss restore their smiles in a way that addresses or prevents most of these consequences. Even better news is that, because of their high biocompatibility, dental implants can be a viable solution for restoring smiles that suffer from tooth loss to varying degrees. (more…)