Dental implants are the standard option for patients needing to replace damaged, broken, or missing teeth. They offer patients many benefits over traditional options.
Implant restorations cost more and treatment time takes longer. However, they look, feel, and work like natural teeth. Fuller Dental in Burlington, NC offer all types of dental implants to their patients missing one, multiple, or an entire row of teeth.
The Benefits of Dental Implants
Best option for your oral health
Dental implants are the best option for your oral health for a few reasons. When a tooth is missing, the bone beneath is will slowly begin to deteriorate. This is because there is no tooth root to provide the stimulation the jawbone needs to maintain density and form.
The patient will suffer from bone loss in the jaw. If you replace the tooth with a dental implant, it replaces the root structure of the missing tooth. This will help prevent bone loss and preserve the jawbone.
While replacement options such as dental bridges and removable dentures will hold the position of the teeth and prevent shifting, they do not replace the tooth root. A dental bridge also relies on surrounding teeth to help secure it.
Your dentist will have to make those adjacent teeth smaller to make room for the bridge. Basically, you have to damage healthy teeth and they have to take on added stress. Replacing your missing teeth with a dental implants will not involve harming your remaining, natural teeth.
Better Stability and Durability
Dental implants are surgically placed in the jaw bone where they fuse with the surrounding bone. When combined with a high quality restoration, whether it’s a crown, bridge or denture, the result is a very durable tooth replacement.
This offers a patient many more benefits over the traditional options. Restorations that are supported with dental implants allow for a greater biting force.
Patients have little to no eating restrictions allowing them to eat a variety of food. This strong, stable bond also ensures that the restoration will not slip around in the mouth. This eliminates the fear of them falling out while speaking, a common fear with removable dentures. This stability also ensures no slurred speech and patients can smile again without the fear of their teeth falling out.
Overall Better Quality of Life
Dental implants are the only restoration available that will look, feel and function just like your natural teeth. It is often not hard to notice a person is wearing dentures. Especially partial dentures since the metal clasps that hold them in place are very noticeable while smiling or speaking.
People often complain about using adhesive to hold dentures in place and how they are uncomfortable. Dental implant supported dentures do not require adhesive or metal clasps to hold them in place.
While your dental implant restoration may require maintenance, it will not be nearly as time consuming or costly as traditional teeth replacement options. Removable dentures and partial dentures will need to be adjusted, replaced, or relined due to bone loss.
The best part about dental implants is that patients will not have to stress about the problems related to their bridges and dentures. Implant supported restorations do not look like fake teeth and a patient can eat, laugh, smile, and speak naturally without fear of their teeth falling out.
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