Losing natural teeth could mean gaps in your smile, and this could leave you vulnerable to an older appearance and pretty major complications. But to preserve your facial structure and fill the gaps, we could help with dental implants. In today’s blog, Brooklyn Periodontics and Implantology talks about restoring smiles in Brooklyn, NY, with implant dentistry! Dental implants not only fill the gaps in your smile, but can help keep your jawbone and facial structure intact as well, so you can maintain your youthful facial features even following severe tooth loss.
The Causes of Tooth Loss
How does a person lose natural teeth? This could happen due to factors like untreated cavities or infection, injuries, or in most cases, gum disease that reaches the periodontitis stage. When you lose natural teeth, a replacement is crucial to protect your smile. Otherwise, the lack of a tooth root means the surrounding jawbone is denied essential nutrients and the area weakens, which creates the circumstances for further tooth loss. Over time, this could lead to an aged appearance! Missing teeth also complicate how you eat and speak, and could lead to complications like misalignment. But we can help preserve your smile and keep your youthful facial features intact with dental implants.
Starting The Dental Implant Placement Process
How do we start the process of placing dental implants? To get started, we will examine your smile to assess the cause of your tooth loss. We can then manage underlying issues like periodontal disease and periodontitis to protect your remaining natural teeth and ensure long-lasting tooth replacement. Our team can extract any diseased teeth as needed too. We then take detailed images of your jaw with advanced CBCT imaging systems and digital x-rays. With this information, we can make sure your jawbone has the strength to support new teeth, and we can choose the best angle, position, and depth to insert them.
If your jawbone has weakened too much to support one or more replacement options, then our team can conduct a grafting procedure to strengthen the lower jaw and/or a sinus lift for the upper jaw, making sure there is enough structure to support your new roots!
Securing Your New Teeth
Our team will plan and guide the placement of your new teeth with precise digital technology. We will insert the implant portion, a post made from biocompatible titanium, into the jawbone. This will act like a new root and stimulate jawbone growth to keep your jaw and facial structure intact, and to help ensure your new tooth has the potential to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime! Our team can address one lost tooth with an individual dental implant, or we could use several posts to support a bridge or possibly a full or partial denture, often in only one visit.
Completing Your Smile with Crowns and Dentures (In One Visit!)
What if you have lost most or all of your teeth? Instead of a set of removable dentures, we offer a more durable and long-lasting alternative with dental implant support. Using the All-On-Four system, in one visit we will remove the last few teeth and then secure just four dental implant posts per arch. These will keep your jaw intact and provide the support for the full row of new teeth, which will be custom-made to ensure a more lifelike appearance. In one visit we connect these so you leave with a complete smile. You then are for your new teeth as you would natural ones, and we will monitor them in follow-up visits.
If you have any questions about how we address tooth loss with one or more dental implants, or if you have a gap in your smile you want to see addressed, then talk to our team. We could offer a full smile again, often in as little as one visit, with dental implants. You deserve a complete smile that looks good and restores health and function to your bite, so talk to our team today to learn more and get started.
Brooklyn Periodontics Offers Full Smiles
Our team is eager to take on your tooth loss with an option that looks and acts like natural teeth! Whether you have lost just one tooth or most of them, we have options for returning your smile to full function, health, and beauty again. In addition, we could manage underlying issues like gum disease to preserve any remaining natural teeth too. For more details about placing our dental implants, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
