If you have lost natural teeth, then this could impact your oral health, bite function, and of course, the appearance of your smile. But we can help, and with an option that is more stable and long-lasting than traditional bridges and removable dentures. In today’s blog, your team at Brooklyn Periodontics and Implantology talks about providing full smiles with dental implants in Brooklyn, NY.
The Causes of Tooth Loss
How do we lose natural teeth, costing us a full smile? This could happen due to severe cavies or infections, which cause teeth to fall out or requires extraction to prevent the spread of infection. Injury is another cause, such as dental emergencies causing a knocked-out tooth. You could also lose teeth to periodontitis, the advanced stage of gum disease. When you suffer from tooth loss, action is needed. Not only do the open gaps impact the appearance of your smile, but the function too, limiting meal options and even how clearly you can communicate. Over time, the lack of tooth roots causes the jawbone to weaken, which leads to further tooth loss and a prematurely aged appearance! But we can fill the gaps and keep your jawbone and facial structure intact with dental implants, which offer a chance at a full smile again.
Planning Your Tooth Replacement
To begin your journey to a full smile, our team can take a close look at your smile with digital x-rays and intraoral cameras. Using 90% less radiation, we can obtain detailed images instantly chairside, so we can assess the impact of tooth loss and plan replacement in detail. Our team will decide if you need teeth extracted, or if you have periodontal disease that needs management with periodontic treatment to avoid implant failure. Our team can also decide if you need supportive services to strengthen the jaw and ensure you are ready to receive one or more dental implants, obtaining your full smile again.
Supportive Services
If tooth loss and periodontal disease have weakened your jawbone. You may not have enough structure to support new tooth roots, which the new teeth require. To strengthen the lower portion of your jaw, we can conduct a grafting procedure, applying new structures in the form of donor tissues, synthetic materials, or even bone taken from other areas of your own body. For the upper jaw, we will raise the sinus floor to cover new tissues that can support your new roots. Once we insert the dental implants, the body recognizes them as real roots and resumes the floor of nutrients to them, which keeps the jaw intact and allows the dental implants the potential to last for decades to come, possibly a lifetime, so you have a chance at a full smile.
Placing Dental Implants
When the time comes for replacement, we will numb the area with a local anesthesia and offer sedation to help you enter a deep state of calm and relaxation, even if you have anxiety or special needs. Once you are properly sedated and ready, we will guide the placement of your dental implants with digital technology, ensuring they sit at the perfect angle, positions, and depth to support one or more new teeth. For some, we can even complete the next step, the attachment of the restoration or prosthetic, in the same sitting.
Restoring Your New Teeth
Dental implants offer a chance at a full smile, but how do we ensure they look natural and provide a durable chewing surface? For an individual one, we will attach an abutment and a crown to the implant post, which ensures a durable chewing surface and lifelike appearance. If you have more than one missing tooth, we could use two or more posts to support a bridge, or as few as four per arch to support a complete row of new teeth. With All-On-Four, we can offer a full row of new teeth supported by dental implants in only one visit.
If you have any questions about how dental implants offer a full smile again, or if you would like to start your journey to a complete smile, then reach out to our team today to learn more and get started. Everyone deserves a full and healthy smile, and with periodontics and implant dentistry we can make that happen for you and your family!
Brooklyn Periodontics Can Offer a Full Smile Again
We can help address the gap in your smile with long-lasting tooth replacement. For more information about obtaining a full smile again, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
