When you have missing teeth, whether this is just one lost tooth or the total loss of your natural teeth, you need help. We can provide this with dental implants! In today’s blog, Brooklyn Periodontics and Implantology talks about the ways we address minor and severe tooth loss with dental implants in Brooklyn, NY.
The Importance of Addressing Minor and Severe Tooth Loss
When you lose a tooth, or even if you lose most or all of them, then you should see our team for treatment. By replacing your lost tooth with dental implants, we not only fill the empty space in your smile with lifelike results, but help keep your jaw intact, avoiding the complications linked to an older appearance. You can also enjoy a greater variety of meal options, and as a result better nutritional intake. Clear speech is also possible again, and with dental implants these results can last for years to come, decades or possibly even a lifetime.
Planning the Placement Process
How do we plan the placement? Our team will start by examining the smile to assess the cause of your tooth loss. If you have periodontal disease, we can manage this with periodontic care, which helps ensure your remaining natural teeth stay secure, and that your new teeth do not fail. Our team will choose the best angle, position, and depth to insert your new tooth roots. We want to make sure your new smile has the chance to truly last, and restore function and beauty to your smile again.
Ensuring Placement is Comfortable and Fast-Healing
Our team wants to make sure the entire process is a comfortable and fast-healing one. Our team will numb the area where the placement is occurring with a local anesthetic. We can also choose from three different sedation options, such as nitrous oxide, oral conscious sedation, and IV sedation. The option we choose for you will help you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, with little to no memory of the placement process at all. Our team also employs Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), a special autoplasm we will inject near the placement area to help the gums, jawbone, and attachment tissues heal faster, so you can return to your normal routine in a shorter period.
Dental Implants
The dental implants themselves are small posts made from titanium, a biocompatible material that the body accepts as natural root structure. This is surgically inserted into the jawbone, and acts like a new root. The body then resumes the flow of calcium and phosphorous to the area around the formerly missing tooth. This means the jaw stays intact and does not lose mass and density, as it usually do so without a tooth root. This means your youthful facial features remain stable, and your new teeth have the ability to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime! For an individual replacement option, once we insert the post, we can attach an abutment to it that extends above the gum line. We then connect a crown, one custom-made for the smile to ensure a proper balance and lifelike appearance. This completes your new tooth. But we also have options for people with multiple missing teeth!
All-On-Four
If you have a larger gap in your smile, such as two to three teeth, we could insert one to two dental implants to support a bridge. If you have lost most or all of your natural teeth, then in only one visit we could remove the last few teeth, insert four dental implants per arch, and then attach a complete set of new teeth. No need for removable dentures, as you now have a full row of new and lifelike teeth that are fixed in place, no need to remove your smile for cleaning or soaking. No worries about slippage either!
If you have any questions about how we provide a complete smile again with dental implants, or if you want to learn more about same-day dental implant placement, then contact our team today. We look forward to helping you smile with confidence and enjoy your best possible smile!
Brooklyn Periodontics Provides Full Smiles Again
We want to help you enjoy good oral health and a smile that makes you confident again, which is why we offer implant dentistry for our patients. For more details about treating what has been lost with a durable replacement, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
