Maintain Your Jaw and Facial Structure With Dental Implants

Replacing teeth with dental implants can go a long way to improving the quality of your life. Let’s face it, tooth loss does happen. There are many reasons why people lose their teeth, but ultimately it is up to us to make sure you do not have to suffer the ill effects of tooth loss. For example, if you lose your teeth and do not replace them you will have challenges eating some of your favorite food, will have trouble speaking and enunciating, and could lose the confidence you need to flash a big beautiful smile. All of these are extremely troubling which is why for centuries man has found way to replace teeth. Dental implants are by far the most technically sound way of doing this, since they look, fell, and act like your naturally occurring teeth. Even more impressively, dental implants do not rely on adhesives or hooks and clasps to hold the teeth in. Implants are a one and done solution to give you a more permanent solution. Dental implants do far more than just improve the quality of your life. While it is important for you to have your teeth to perform important functions like chewing, there is a secondary role that dental implants play in supporting the oral health of your mouth. Designed to integrate seamlessly with your jawbone, dental implants work symbiotically with the bone causing it to reverse density loss and some of the problems that are associated with losing bone mass in your jaw. Through a process known as osseointegration the implant, which is a small titanium screw, causes your body to recognize it as part of a new tooth and biologically engage it as such. The jawbone has one primary function and is supported by the body to perform it. That function is to provide an anchor for the tooth in the mouth.  The bone receives stimulation from the teeth, which are embedded in the alveolar, when you chew or bite on something. When a tooth is lost the body may well see the jawbones function as defunct and will start to resorb the bone. In order to resorb the bone, the body will start to leach important minerals like calcium away from the bone and direct them to more mission critical areas of the body. When this happens, the bone itself will start to deteriorate, leading to a host of other challenges with the facial structure and features of the person experiencing a loss of bone density. One of the problems that commonly occurs has come to be known as witches chin. When a patient suffers this dramatic transformation, their lips will start to curl inwards, and their lower face starts to shrivel dramatically altering their appearance. This typically happens when the bone deterioration has gotten to the point that the posterior bite has collapsed and sometimes the entire facial structure itself has collapsed. The good news is that with dental implants, the jaw bone will receive the stimulation it needs and will continue to maintain a strong base for the tooth, while also doing its part to maintain the structural integrity of the facial features.

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