When you have one or more missing teeth, then you may feel embarrassed about your appearance. But your missing teeth could also mean negative impacts on your smile’s health and function too! In today’s blog, your Brooklyn, NY, periodontist and dental implant expert talks about placing dental implants and using your dental benefits!
The Loss of Your Natural Teeth
What happens to cause you to lose your natural teeth? Missing teeth could be a result of poor oral health, such as untreated tooth decay and infection. An injury to your face or jaw could also be the factor behind missing teeth. The most common reason to lose your natural teeth is due to gum disease, as the advanced stage known as periodontitis can weaken and erode the connective tissues between your teeth and gums.
We want to help address your missing teeth with dental implants to fill the exposed gaps in your smile. At the same time, the dental implants can help prevent the breakdown in your jaw that usually follows tooth loss, so you don’t risk losing teeth or obtaining an older appearance prematurely. If you suffer from tooth loss, talk to our team about implant dentistry right away!
Planning Your Dental Implant Placement
How do we start the tooth replacement process? To begin, our team will take a close look at your smile with digital x-rays and intraoral cameras. These high-definition images enable our team to assess the cause and extent of your tooth loss, so we can target any underlying issues like gum disease to protect your new teeth. We also want to choose the best angle, positions, and depth to insert your new roots, to help ensure the longevity and strength of your new teeth. Once we plan the process in detail, we can move forward with addressing your lost tooth or teeth.
Securing Your New Roots
The dental implant itself is a small biocompatible post made from titanium, which the body accepts as natural tooth structure. Our team will numb the area and may offer sedation to ensure you feel comfortable as we guide the new posts into place with digital technology. Once surgically inserted, the body accepts the posts as new roots, so the flow of nutrients to the jaw structure, so you avoid further tooth loss or the appearance of premature aging. Our team can then move forward with addressing the part of your new tooth or smile that people will see!
Attaching a Dental Crown
For an individual dental implant, our team will connect an abutment to the post that extends above the gum line. We can then attach the crown to it. The dental crown is custom-made to ensure a balanced bite and a lifelike appearance. The materials we use, such as ceramic, can endure daily bite forces and provide an appearance that looks natural. Our team could also employ more than one post to support bridges, or as we will discuss, a completely new smile!
Addressing Total Tooth Loss
If you have lost the majority of your natural teeth, then our team will extract the last few gently and carefully, and then plant the placement of four dental implants per arch. These are small and designed to require less structure for support, limiting the chances you will need grafting on a sinus lift to prepare your smile. Once the four posts are in place, we will connect a full row of new teeth in the same visit. That’s right, you can enjoy a complete smile in only one sitting, leaving with a full smile. Your implant-secured dentures will not only look lifelike, but they also keep your jaw intact, so your new teeth can last far longer than removable dentures. In addition, they never slip when you eat or speak. We can discuss how to care for them and help them truly last for years to come, possibly a lifetime.
If you have any questions about how our team will take on missing teeth with dental implants, so if you want to use your dental benefits before they expire at the end of the year, then talk to our team about tooth loss solutions with implant dentistry. A complete smile is possible, and we want to help you greet 2026 with a full smile or on the path to one!
Brooklyn Periodontics Can Help Complete Your Smile
Our team wants to make sure you can start 2026 with a full smile or on the path to one. For more information on securing your dental implants, then please call Brooklyn Periodontics & Implantology in Brooklyn, NY at (718) 444-3800 today.
