When you have lost most or all of your teeth, then individual dental implants may not be enough to restore your smile. But that doesn’t mean you’re limiting to traditional removable denatures. Instead, we can offer fixed dentures with dental implants. In today’s blog, your Shrewsbury, MA, dentist explains the benefits of our hybrid dentures, and how we can use this to strengthen your jaw, improve your ability to eat, and offer results that look natural and blend with your smile seamlessly!
The Causes of Advanced Tooth Loss
Why do we lose our smiles? Well, teeth can become lost due to issues like serious injury or even untreated tooth decay or dental infection. But in many cases, substantial tooth loss is due to periodontitis, the advanced stage of gum disease. This destroys the tissues connecting our teeth and gums, causing tooth loss and damage to the bone structure too. When you lose your teeth, you need to seek replacement to avoid major negative changes to your daily life and overall health. Don’t let your oral health and overall health suffer, or your ability to socialize due to embarrassment regarding your appearance and limited speech capabilities. Talk to our team about implant placement!
The Impact on Your Smile
With advanced tooth loss, you may have trouble speaking clearly and could simply feel embarrassed about your appearance, which impacts your social life and quality of life. Your meal options could be severely limited, so your favorite dishes are impossible to enjoy and your body is denied important nutrients. As the body stops sending doses of calcium and phosphorus to the jaw around hour missing teeth, this could mean a gradual breakdown. The loss of mass and density in the jaw is connected to a weakened jaw and an older appearance. To preserve your smile and enjoy a good quality of life, you need a fixed prosthetic with implant dentures, which will look and function like natural teeth.
Examining Your Smile
To get started, our team will carefully examine your smile with advanced imaging technology. We want to assess the cause of your tooth loss in case you need treatment to manage issues like gum disease to prevent implant failure. Our team will also choose the best angles, positions, and depths to insert the dental implant posts, stimulating jawbone growth to prevent the loss of mass and density in the jaw. For some, grafting or sinus lift may be needed to strengthen the jaw so it can support these posts. We may need to extract the last few teeth, which we can do gently and carefully.
Dental Implants
The dental implants we insert into your jaw will act as new roots. Made from titanium, a biocompatible material the body will accept them as natural roots. Once we insert these into your jaw, we may need to wait for the placement area to heal, for others we could attach the denture portion in the same visit. We insert several posts per arch and then connect abutments to them so there is structure to attach your finished denture.
Hybrid Dentures
The denture is custom-made for your smile and designed to not only look natural, but also handle daily bite forces and pressures with ease, so you can smile with confidence, eat your favorite foods, and enjoy tooth replacement with the potential to last for decades to come, or possibly even a lifetime. We attach them to the posts, and you have fixed dentures that never slip when you eat or speak, and that will strengthen your bite and oral health with time. They will look and function like natural teeth, so you can enjoy a better quality of life!
If you have any questions about how we support a full smile with our dental implant dentures, or if you’re ready to take on your tooth loss and avoid further impacts on your smile, then contact our team today to learn more. Everyone deserves a complete smile, even if years have elapsed since you lost your teeth. Talk to our team to start your journey to optimal oral health and a full smile again.
Ready for a Full Smile Again?
We want to help you enjoy a strong and healthy smile, one that is full and beautiful. To find out more about our lifelike and durable hybrid dentures, then please call our Shrewsbury/Grafton, MA area dental office at 508-842-8838. We can also support individual dental implants for minor gaps, or support a bridge. Whether you have minor or severe tooth loss, we have an option to help you enjoy a full smile, sometimes in as little as one visit.
