When you have lost most of your teeth, or if you have edentulism, the loss of all your teeth, then you need help. Instead of traditional removable dentures, we can offer a set fixed in place with dental implants. In today’s blog, your Shrewsbury, MA, dentist takes a look at our durable and fixed hybrid dentures, which can address tooth loss and help you smile without hesitation again, and also protect you from major oral health complications down the road. We want you to obtain a prosthetic that looks and acts like natural teeth!
The Causes of Tooth Loss
Our teeth can become lost for a number of different reasons. For example, an injury to your face could lead to tooth loss. In addition, you could sustain missing teeth due to severe tooth decay and dental infection. But the most common cause is periodontitis, the late stage of tooth loss. Whether you lose one tooth or several, you need to talk to our team about tooth replacement to help prevent major complications from arising, and so you can feel comfortable with your smile. If you have lost more or all of your teeth, we can help with fixed dentures.
The Importance of Treating Tooth Loss
When you lose a tooth, or several, the surrounding ones will drift from position, which creates a missing. In addition to further impacting smile beauty, misalignment can increase the risk of tooth decay and gum disease. When you lose teeth, this could lead to pressure on your jaw joints which in turn increases the risk of TMJ disorder and bruxism (teeth grinding). Your body will also suspend the flow of calcium and phosphorus to the jaw around the missing teeth, which weakens the bone tissue to lose mass and density. This leads to a breakdown and an older appearance, as well as further tooth loss. When you have gaps in your smile, please reach out to our team. In addition to address minor tooth loss, our edam can also provide hybrid dentures to address more severe cases, so you can obtain a full smile again.
Dental Implants
Dental implants are small posts that are screw-like in appearance. These are ach made from titanium, which is biocompatible. Being biocompatible means the body accepts them as natural bone structure and they bond with the jaw, which stimulates jawbone growth to prevent a breakdown to preserve your jaw density and your youthful facial features in the process. This also enables your new post to stay in place for decades to come, possibly a lifetime. Our team can carefully examine the smile with digital x-rays and intraoral cameras so we can choose the best positions and angles to insert your posts, so they stimulate jawbone growth and support a full set of prosthetics with ease.
Hybrid Prosthetic
With hybrid dentures, our team will schedule an initial visit, in which we insert your dental implant posts, using digital surgical guides to ensure they’re at the right positions and depth. We then schedule a follow-up visit to attach your prosthetic. In between these visits, the area will heal. When you return, we will attach abutments to the dental implant posts, which extend above the gum line. We then attach the denture, which has been custom-made to ensure a lifelike appearance and a durable chewing surface, so we not only restore beauty to your smile, but better oral health and bite function too. Once attached, these don’t need to be removed for cleaning or soaking, and never slip when you laugh or talk.
Your new smile can last for years to come, decades or possibly even a lifetime, and we will insert them with follow-up visits to ensure they continue to provide optimal tooth replacement. If you have any questions about how we plan and implement implant placement, or about our custom prosthetics, then please reach out to our team today. We would love to see you and help you enjoy a full smile again with a set of durable and lifelike hybrid dentures. Everyone deserves a full smile, and we want to help!
Ready for a Set of Fixed Dentures?
When you have lost most or all of your teeth, then we can help restore function, health, and beauty with a set of custom and durable hybrid dentures, which are fixed in place with dental implants. To find out more about how we offer dentures that never slip and last for decades, then please call our Shrewsbury/Grafton, MA area dental office at 508-842-8838. You don’t have to live with gaps in your smile, we can help you enjoy a complete smile again.
