Dental implants can address missing teeth and restore your smile, but what if the complications of tooth loss have left your smile weakened? To ensure you can support one or more of our dental implants, we can offer treatments like grafting or a sinus lift. In today’s blog, Brooklyn Periodontics and Implantology talks about how we prepare smiles for dental implants with support services. We can make sure your smile is ready for new teeth, and new results that have the potential to last a lifetime.
How Tooth Loss Weakens Your Jaw
What happens to your jaw when you lose teeth? When the body registers the loss of a tooth root, it stops sending doses of calcium and phosphorus to the jawbone. Without these interruptions, the area around the missing root weakens and erodes, which can mean further tooth loss and eventually, an older appearance. This process also means you may not have enough structure in the lower or upper portion of your mouth to support dental implants, limiting your tooth replacement options and leaving you vulnerable to a prematurely aged appearance. But we can help!
Support Services
Support services allow our team to strengthen weakened smiles and offer a stronger smile again, one that can handle multiple posts if needed! For the lower jaw, we can conduct a jawbone grafting, also known as a ridge augmentation, to strengthen the area. This involves adding to new tissues to the area, such as donor tissues, synthetic structures, or even bone taken from other parts of your own body. This provides a new base that can support dental implants.
For the upper jaw, we take a different approach. With a sinus lift, we essentially raise the sinus floor to uncover new portions of your bite that can support replacement teeth. When the areas heal, we can move forward with placing your new teeth!
Replacing Your Missing Teeth
When the new tooth roots are inserted into the upper or lower portion of your smile, the body will see these as natural roots. The flow of essential nutrients resumes, keeping your jawbone strain and intact, and allowing your new teeth the opportunity to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime. If you have any questions about how we treat missing teeth with one or more of our dental implants, then contact our team today to learn more! We are ready to help your smile stay intact and healthy for years to come, and ensure you can smile with confidence again.
Brooklyn Periodontics Provides Jawbone Grafting and More
Our team wants to help strengthen your upper and lower jaw as needed. For more details about our support services, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
