Missing teeth means the overall health of your smile suffers. Along with impacts on your smile’s appearance, you may be more likely to development misalignment, further tooth loss, and even a prematurely aged appearance. To help, we offer our Charles City, IA, residents implant dentistry. How do you know if you qualify for dental implants?
Gum Health and Jawbone Density
We need to make sure your smile is ready to support implant-secured replacements. First, we’re going to look at your gum health. The advanced stage of gum disease, known as periodontitis, actually destroys the connective tissue between your teeth and gums. As a result, a dental implant could fail. If you do have gum disease, there is no cure, so we need to manage it with routine care to make receiving new teeth possible. If you have gum inflammation, then treatments and routine care can help reverse the issue and safeguard your gums.
We also need to look at the strength of your jawbone. When you lose teeth, whether one or several, the body finds sending doses of key nutrients to the surrounding jawbone unnecessary. Deprived of essential doses of calcium and phosphorus, the bone tissue around your lost teeth begins to break down and deteriorate. Eventually, you could lose further teeth and not have enough stable tissue to support a new tooth. For some we may need to strengthen the tissue with a bone grafting procedure before moving forward with missing tooth replacement.
Placing Your New Tooth Roots
Once you’re cleared for placement, the dental implant will be inserted into the jaw via oral surgery. The implant and the jawbone tissue will then bond through a process known as osseointegration. After three or four months, the dental implant will act as a new tooth root. This process stimulates the growth of jawbone tissue, preventing the breakdown of tissue and preserving the structure of your face and jaw. Your new tooth could potentially last decades, if not a lifetime, in some cases.
Restoration and Maintenance
Following osseointegration, we move on with the restoration, which address the physical aspect of your new tooth. For single dental implants, we create and place a custom-made dental crown. For multiple lost teeth, we will create a partial or full denture to attach. Routine care then helps ensure your new teeth last for many years to come!
Central Park Dentistry Replaces Missing Teeth
At Central Park Dentistry, we want to offer a full and healthy smile once more with the placement of lifelike and implant-secured replacements. To learn more about the benefits of implant dentistry, then schedule a consultation with Dr. Hansen by calling our dental office in Charles City, IA at (641) 228-1115. We proudly welcome patients from Osage, New Hampton, Greene, and all surrounding communities.
