As soon as you replace a missing tooth, you improve the overall health of your mouth. The space left by a missing tooth negatively affects your nutrition, the surrounding teeth and your jawbone. Replacing a missing tooth with dental implants benefits the look and function of your mouth and contributes to your overall oral heath.
Missing teeth make eating the foods we love difficult and often even painful. If you limit your diet to only what your teeth can handle, you miss out on many important nutrients — which leads to poor nutrition.
Each tooth in your mouth provides support for the teeth around it — when one is missing, the ones surrounding it have nothing to lean on. As soon as teeth feel an opening near them, they loosen up, shift and tilt inwards to fill the space. This often leads to tooth decay and even further tooth loss.
When your jawbone feels the absence of a tooth, it responds by deteriorating. The pressure our jaws receive from tooth roots stimulates bone cells. Without that pressure, the gap left by missing teethcontinues to deteriorate until something replaces it. Dental solutions to missing teeth become troublesome the more the jaw deteriorates. In some cases, jawbone loss leads to jaw shrinkage and facial collapse.
Whether you need just one, or all, of your teeth replaced, dental implants provide a solution for your mouth that may last a lifetime. With dental implants, you can eat the foods you love without worrying about pain and discomfort. Moreover, by inserting titanium “roots” into the hollow gaps where your teeth are missing, dental implants prevent your natural teeth from shifting and your jawbone from deteriorating.