Keeping Your Motivation Up: Tooth Loss

Tooth loss is a very particular type of experience. Your smile not only makes up a very significant portion of your appearance and, as a result, your identity and self-esteem but it is also one of your most used and most powerful tools! So, when this feature becomes incomplete, it’s a lot to deal with! Of course, if you’ve met with our Rohnert Park, CA team, then you have a plan in place to make it all better with dental implants. As for the full process you’re experiencing, we know it can have some emotional highs and lows, which is why we offer some motivational tools to keep your chin up!

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Choosing From So Many Implant Options

Our Santa Rosa, CA team might tell you that your best bet is to either select a couple dental implants to support dental crowns or to select an implant-supported partial. Or, perhaps we offer you a different set of possible solutions that will resolve your tooth loss. When you look at the different treatment paths we have presented you with, you realize that they all sound good. Just when you think one is going to be your final selection, you backtrack and reconsider your thoughts. How to choose, you ask? We can help with simple suggestions to think through.

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Implants And Figuring It All Out: Take It Easy!

You might find yourself swinging from one side of the emotional spectrum to the other as you take on the task of figuring out what to do in regard to your tooth loss. Remember, this is a common concern and something that many individuals go through, so you’re not the only one! However, with that said, we know very well that when you are the one trying to learn about dental implants and more, to weigh your options, and to figure out the best way to move forward, it can cause you to feel stretched a bit thin. Of course, that’s why our Santa Rosa, CA team has some helpful words of wisdom to share to make things easier.

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Taking Your Time With Implants: Good, So-So, Or Bad?

At some point, once you have experienced any level of tooth loss, you begin realizing you don’t have access to just one type of tooth replacement. Instead, you have access to many, which are primarily categorized as traditionally supported (no implants included) or implant supported (implants included). For some, the goal is to end up with dental implants but when it comes to time and how it factors into the equation, well, this is where things often become confusing. Let our Rohnert Park, CA team help you better understand cultivating your own personal timeline that will work best for you.

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Seasonal Implant Reminders: 3 Things To Do This Spring

What should you be doing this spring, our Santa Rosa, CA team asks? Well, your initial reaction may be “having fun” and “enjoying the fresh spring air!” However, we remind you that we are a team of oral and maxillofacial surgeons, so really, our question is linked with what you should be thinking about in terms of your missing teeth. If you’re now quickly getting the idea and your response is, “I should probably be thinking about actually receiving dental implants already,” then you’re on the right track. Why spring, you ask? Why not summer or fall or beyond? Well, consider some new thoughts on the matter.

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Implant Time: Don’t Be Embarrassed To Come In

Are you embarrassed to come in to our practice to discuss dental implants with our Santa Rosa, CA team? Why is that? We can think of a variety of issues that tend to keep patients from seeing us for more information and, of course, we wish we could speak with every individual out there in an attempt to offer a reminder: It’s best to let your shyness fall away and to learn, learn, learn about the options we provide at our practice. In nearly every instance, the emotions that are keeping you from pursuing a complete smile are just that … emotions … and a plan for a healthy, complete smile really is on the horizon.

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Choosing Dental Implants: 3 Things You’re Investing In

As you approach making an investment in dental implants, you know on the surface that you’re purchasing a replacement for the teeth you have lost. You know that you’re going to get “roots” back, in addition to missing crowns, which means you’re not partially replacing teeth but you’re doing it a complete manner. You also know that unless you choose implants support, there is no other way to successfully attain complete tooth replacement. These detail are smile inducing! Learning more about just how beneficial your investment is, of course, is often something that helps our Rohnert Park, CA patients feel certain about their choice!

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Changing From Traditional To Implant Support: What You Can Gain!

When you are wearing a traditional prosthetic of any kind, you have successfully replaced the missing teeth that once comprised part of your smile. Or, if you are wearing full dentures, you have replaced the teeth that comprised the entirety of your smile. While you may feel happy to have a full smile back for your function and for esthetic value, you may feel like something is missing. Maybe you never feel secure about your smile because you’re worried about movement or long-term wear. Perhaps you have other concerns. Today, our Santa Rosa, CA practice focuses on those things that you can gain when you switch from a prosthetic with traditional support to one supported by dental implants!

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Avoiding Implants by Preventing Tooth Loss

If you’ve lost one or more teeth, then dental implants may be the best way to replace them. Not only do they rebuild your smile, but they even help reduce your risks of losing more teeth by keeping your jawbone strong and healthy. However, if you haven’t lost teeth yet, then preventing tooth loss is typically the better option for the sake of your long-term oral health. At our Santa Rosa, CA, dental office, we can help you rebuild your smile after tooth loss by performing implant placement and restoration at our office. We can also help you avoid the need for dental implants by helping you improve and maintain your healthy smile for life. (more…)

A Few Good Questions to Ask About Tooth Extraction

For many patients who need to replace one or more teeth, the reason is because they’ve had a tooth extracted. When it becomes necessary, extracting a tooth can make way for your oral health specialist to replace it with a more functional prosthesis, such as a dental implant. At our Rohnert Park, CA, oral surgery office, we’ll only recommend extracting a tooth if it can’t be saved. In many cases, we also recommend replacing it as soon as possible to limit the negative effects that the missing tooth can have on your oral health. (more…)