If your smile is incomplete due to missing teeth, dental implants can restore your confidence. Your implant dentist can give you a new tooth that will look exactly like your original tooth, with carefully matched color and porcelain that looks like natural enamel. Whether you need one tooth or a full arch, you can have a full, beautiful mouthful of teeth without ever having to worry about denture adhesive or teeth that shift in your mouth.

Advantages to Dental Implants

With traditional dentures, you’ll likely use denture adhesive to be sure your teeth remain in place. Well-fitted dentures do not move in your mouth, but as the shape of your jaw changes, the dentures might become less secure. Implants are set directly in your jawbone, so they do not move, and your jaw is much less likely to change shape, since the implants help keep the bone from deteriorating.

Even if you only need to have one or two teeth replaced, you can have implants placed without disturbing or reshaping the adjacent teeth. With traditional bridges, the adjacent teeth must be reshaped to accept crowns that will support the replacement teeth. Implants do not require this. The titanium root is placed directly in the jawbone and supports a prosthetic that replaces your missing tooth or teeth.

How an Implant Procedure Works

Your implant procedure should start with a consultation with implant dentists to ensure you are a good candidate for the procedure. Your dentist will look for some of the following factors during your initial consultation:

• Your overall health
• The health of your jawbone
• The health and condition of your gums
• The presence of systemic problems
• Tobacco use

If you are in good overall health, do not suffer from diabetes or immune system disorders, and do not have gum disease, you are probably a good candidate for dental implants. If you are smoker, however, your healing process might be impeded, since smoking affects your circulation. Diabetes and immune system problems can also delay appropriate healing, as can osteoporosis.

Throw away your denture adhesives and contact our team of implant dentists at the doctor Family Dentistry. Call us at our office and make an appointment today.