Dental implants are becoming more and more common, but they aren’t necessarily for everyone. Patients with osteoporosis may require the dentist to take additional or alternative means of treatment. Here’s what you need to know about dental implants if you have osteoporosis.

How Dental Implants Work

Dental implants are embedded into the jaw bone. In order for the implant to stay in place indefinitely, the bone must remodel around the implant, growing into it and holding it firmly in place. This process is called osseointegration. If you have issues with your jaw bone, you may not be able to get implants. [Read more…]

There are many downsides to getting a tooth extracted. A full extraction is very hard on your jaw bone and gums. In a traditional extraction, the entire tooth including the root is removed. This can cause bone loss in the jaw, which can affect biting and chewing. Anything that affects your bite and ability to process food is hazardous to your health.

Luckily there is a new method called partial extraction therapy that does not have these downsides. This is a revolutionary new therapy, and we are among the frontrunners in its use. Studies have proven that partial extraction therapy has many benefits for patients.

Partial Extraction Therapy Defined

Partial extraction therapy is just what it sounds like. Not all of the tooth is extracted. Instead, the root that is naturally embedded deep within the jawbone is left intact and submerged beneath the gum. Only the decayed part of the tooth is removed.  [Read more…]

Dental implants are a great way to replace lost or missing teeth. Especially if you just have one or two teeth missing, dental implants are the perfect solution to restore your smile. Dental implants can affect people in many ways, but social butterflies are perhaps the most impacted by a restored smile. Here’s why.

First Impressions

Social butterflies are usually the first to introduce themselves to new people in social settings. If you spend a lot of time going to clubs, bars, and other entertainment venues, you are likely to make a lot of first impressions in just one night. If you enjoy talking to other people for diversity, you’ll want your first impression to be good enough to warrant further conversation. Having a whole and healthy smile is a part of that first impression. [Read more…]

When you have missing teeth, it can affect your life and health in surprising ways. While it is always best to get the proper dental care so that you don’t lose teeth, it does sometimes happen that a tooth needs to be extracted. When this happens, it leaves a gap in your smile that can have a lot of repercussions. One solution is to get dental implants to replace missing teeth. Here are some of the advantages.

Good for One or Two Teeth

While a partial or full denture may be a better solution for some people who have a lot of missing teeth, dental implants are great if you are only missing one or two teeth. This is because the implant can be placed in the gap of the missing tooth, and none of the other teeth are affected.  [Read more…]

When you have missing teeth, it affects more than just your appearance or your smile. Having missing teeth can cause a number of problems for you, and it is important to replace them with dental implants or another dental appliance. Although dental implants are an investment, it is important not to put off the procedure. Here are three reasons you should not put off dental implants.

Nutrition

When you have missing teeth, you are not able to chew your food properly. This can affect your nutritional intake, and it can make it more difficult for the digestive system to process the food you eat because it is not chewed enough. Replacing missing teeth with dental implants will restore your bite and allow you to enjoy your meals and get nutritional value from them. [Read more…]

Having missing teeth does more than just affect your appearance. When you lose teeth either to breakage or extraction, it is important that you replace the missing teeth with some type of appliance. Dental implants are by far the best choice for replacing missing teeth for several reasons.

Prevents Bone and Tissue Loss

When you have a missing tooth, it can cause you to have bone loss in the jaw as well as tissue loss in the gums. Both of these problems can cause sinking of the facial features over time, further affecting your appearance. Bone loss and tissue loss can also result in loose teeth around the gap left by the missing tooth. This can result in even more dental work and the potential for more missing teeth. [Read more…]

The sad fact is that many teenagers do not have good oral hygiene. Many teens will only brush their teeth when they realize their breath isn’t fresh, they have a date, or mom or dad reminds them. This often leads to cavities. While your dentist will do everything they can to save a tooth, sometimes the best remedy for health is an extraction. Leaving gaps in your teen’s smile does more than harm their appearance.

Gaps in Teeth Affect Eating Habits

Gaps in teeth can affect the effectiveness of the bite, causing problems with chewing food adequately for good digestion. Too many gaps in teeth can sometimes cause teens to avoid some foods altogether. Since it is already hard enough to get teens to eat a healthy diet, making it more difficult for them to bite into or chew fresh fruits and vegetables is not a good idea. This is just one reason why you should replace missing teeth.

Your Teen is Still Growing

One of the biggest reasons not to let teeth go unreplaced is that your teen is still growing. When a tooth is extracted while growth is still occurring, it causes the other teeth around it to migrate to try to fill the gap. This results in a bad bite, and it can greatly hinder future dental work. It is important to replace missing teeth as soon as possible so your teen doesn’t have problems with chewing.

Missing Teeth Contribute to Depression

Many teens suffer from depression and low self-esteem. Anything you can do to boost your child’s confidence is an important undertaking. Having missing teeth can make your teen unnecessarily self-conscious. It can also make them a target for bullying. Appearance is extremely important to your teen, so it should also be important to you.

Options

You have many options for replacing missing teeth for your teen. Implants and implant supported bridges can restore your teen’s healthy smile and help them live a better life. Contact us today for more information.

In their healthiest form, natural teeth are impressively strong and durable. Not only do they chew and shred all of your favorite hard and crunchy foods, but they also support your jawbone structure and endure a lifetime of use and wear.

However, if you’re like most adults, you will lose at least one tooth in your lifetime and need to replace it. You might worry that a dental implant cannot offer the same strength and durability as your natural tooth, but today’s impressive technology actually does make it possible to replace real teeth with implants of equal strength.

Dental Implants Are Titanium Posts

Dental implants are actually titanium posts that are carefully inserted into the bone where your tooth used to be. Titanium is a durable, versatile and safe material that fuses with the jaw bone over the course of a few months. This forms an alternative tooth root that – with proper care – will stay perfectly in place for the rest of your life.

A Healthy Jawbone Strengthens Your Implants

Since your dental implants must fuse with your jawbone, the strength of your jawbone can influence the integrity of your implants. This is why it’s so important to use advanced  osseodensification as a way to strengthen your jawbone without any invasive bone grafting. This procedure slowly displaces existing bone tissues to make them more compact around your implant. The end result is a stronger, healthier jawbone that can easily support implants. [Read more…]

Losing a tooth to decay, infection, or injury can be painful and embarrassing, but you aren’t forced to live with a gap in your smile forever. Dental technologies have advanced significantly in the past decade, making permanent dental implants the gold standard of care for modern tooth replacement.

An implant is a prosthetic tooth root anchored directly into your jaw with a durable titanium screw. A crown attaches to the implant to replace your natural tooth structure. When replacing your missing tooth, there are many reasons to consider a single-tooth implant over other replacement methods.

Restore the Look, Feel, and Function Of Your Natural Tooth

Unlike bridges or dentures, a dental implant actually replaces the entire structure of your missing tooth. A titanium screw replaces the missing tooth root and fuses with the jawbone to become a permanent part of the mouth. Once the crown is affixed to the implant, you can chew, talk, laugh, and smile like normal. Your single-tooth implant will look so natural that nobody will suspect it’s not real. [Read more…]

Long gone are the days when a missing tooth could only be replaced by a wooden alternative. Missing teeth can now be efficiently replaced by implants that look, feel, and function nearly identically to the teeth they replaced. It’s important to understand that implants still need to be cleaned and protected even though they aren’t real.

After the time, money, and energy spent to restore your mouth with dental implants, you want to take every step necessary to maintain strong oral health in the future. Establishing good nutrition is one of the best ways to do this.

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