When you have suffered from tooth loss, we want to provide replacement with lifelike and durable dental implants. To prepare your smile and strengthen your jaw, we may suggest support services prior to placement. In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and implant expert talks about jawbone grafting sinus lift procedures.
The Dangers Related to Tooth Loss
If you have lost a tooth, or even several of them, then please reach out to our team about dental implant placement. Obviously, tooth loss alters your appearance in negative ways and can complicate how you eat and speak. But did you know it can lead to a weakened jawbone and aged appearance? The body will respond to your tooth loss by suspending the flow of calcium and phosphorus to the areas around the missing tooth roots. Without these nutrients, the jaw erodes and weakens, which leads to further tooth loss and an older appearance. But with dental implants, we can stimulate the growth of these structures to keep your smile intact and allow your new teeth to stay in place for decades to come. But what if your jawbone has already weakened due to tooth loss? If this happens, we can offer support services.
Our Support Services
Our support services are designed to strengthen the upper and lower jaw so that even if you have lost mass and density in the jaw, we can still ensure your smile supports one or more dental implants. For the lower jaw, we will conduct a ridge augmentation, also known as grafting. Essentially, we will add new structures to the lower portion to fortify it and ensure there is enough structure to support new dental implants. These tissues could be synthetic or taken from other parts of your body, such as the rear of your jaw, your hip, or your knee bone.
For the upper jaw, we take a different approach. Our team will conduct a sinus lift, in which we essentially raise the sinus floor to uncover new structures that can support our dental implants, and allow you to enjoy lifelike and long-lasting tooth replacement.
Placing Your New Teeth
Once we have strengthened your smile with our support services, we will use digital technology to plan and guide the placement of dental implants, inserting these biocompatible titanium posts into the jaw. In the same visit, we may be able to complete the new tooth or smile with a crown or even a full set of new teeth.
Schedule Your Implant Consultation with the Team at Brooklyn Periodontics
We want to offer treatment that strengthens your smile and prepares it for dental implant placement. For more information on addressing your tooth loss, please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
