If you have lost a tooth, or even if you have lost several of your natural teeth, you need help. Instead of continuing to lose natural teeth, we can help replace them and keep your smile full! In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and dental implant expert talks about placing dental implants!
The Causes of Your Missing Tooth
What causes a missing tooth to occur? You could lose one or more of your natural teeth to issues like untreated cavities or a serious dental infection. Injury could be responsible, but the most common cause is actually the periodontitis stage of gum disease. When our team examines your smile, we will look at underlying factors to diagnose the cause of your tooth loss. With this information we can plan your placement, and also offer care to manage issues like gum disease to prevent further tooth loss or implant failure!
The Long-Term Impact
You should consider an appointment to handle your missing teeth because otherwise, your oral health and bite function could suffer. Without your tooth roots, the body will stop sending key nutrients to the jawbone around the lost roots. These areas weaken and erode, which leads to missing teeth and also an older appearance. You could have issues eating your favorite foods, and this could deny your body essential nutrients. Issues with clear speech could occur too, as well as misalignment. But with dental implants placement, we not only fill the empty spaces in your smile, but we stimulate jawbone growth to ensure your smile stays intact and your new teeth last for decades to come with proper care and attention!
Securing New Teeth
If we decide you are a good candidate for tooth replacement with dental implants, we will examine your smile with digital imaging systems to choose the angle, position, and depth to insert the dental implant post. We then guide this into your jaw with surgical guides, and once in place this can bond with the jaw and act like a new root. We then attach an abutment that extends above the gum line so we can connect the crown, which completes your new tooth. Our team could also secure posts to support a bridge or even a complete set of dentures. In fact, with All-On-Four we can secure a full set of custom teeth in only one visit!
If you have any questions about dental implants or about taking on your tooth loss, then reach out to our team today to learn more and start the process.
Brooklyn Periodontics Provides a Complete Smile Again
We would love to help you smile without hesitation by taking on your missing teeth. For more information on the benefits of implant dentistry, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
