Dental implants can treat missing teeth, offering an option for a single missing tooth that looks and functions like natural teeth. But what if you have lost most, or possibly all, of your natural teeth? In these situations, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and implant expert can provide implant-secured fixed dentures.
The Risks of Advanced Tooth Loss
Losing a large number of your teeth could be possible due to factors like a serious injury or even the presence of gum disease. When this occurs, you could feel embarrassed about your appearance and even avoid social interactions, which impacts your quality of life. You could have trouble speaking clearly, and your meal options and nutritional intake could be severely limited. But the most severe complication is the loss of mass and density in the jaw, which happens as the body suspends the flow of key nutrients to the jaw around the missing tooth roots. Over time, this leads to further tooth loss and even an older appearance for people with advanced tooth loss. But with implant-secured dentures, we can offer a full smile that is fixed in place and functions like natural teeth.
Starting Replacement
To start the process, we will gently extract the last few teeth and then take detailed digital images of your bite from multiple angles, doing so quickly and comfortably using a digital scanning wand. With these images and measurements, we can design a full dental prosthetic and plan the placement of the dental implant portions. We will insert several posts into each arch, where they bond with the jaw and act like new tooth roots. This keeps the jaw and facial structure intact, and allows your end roots to last for decades to come. We then connect a full denture to them, which never slips and doesn’t need to be removed for cleaning or soaking.
All-On-Four
With All-On-Four, we only need four small dental implants per arch, and we can attach a new set of teeth to them in the same visit, so you leave our office after only one appointment with a full smile. Our team will discuss how to care for your new set of fixed dentures, so you have a new smile that can last for many years to come, possibly a lifetime. If you have any questions about how our team will address tooth loss and manage underlying factors like gum disease, then contact our office today to learn more.
Schedule Your Dental Implant Appointment with Brooklyn Periodontics
We want to provide a solution to your missing teeth so you can smile with confidence again. For more information on implant dentistry and tooth loss solutions, please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
