If you have lost most of your teeth, or even all of them, that doesn’t mean you can’t smile with confidence again. With full and partial dentures, we can offer a complete smile again, one that looks natural too! In today’s blog, your Omaha, NE, dentist explains how we secure new smiles with our dentures.
The Impact of Total Tooth Loss
What happens when you lose most or all of your teeth? Advanced tooth loss is often the result of periodontitis, the advanced stage of gum disease that severs the tissues connecting your teeth and gums. When you lose so much of your smile, this can improve your appearance and may cause you to avoid social interactions, which harms your overall quality of life. You could suffer from limited meal options and poor nutritional intake. Missing teeth could also mean difficulties with clear speech. Your jawbone could gradually erode as well, leading to an older appearance. But we can help restore function, health, and beauty with a set of custom dentures.
Full and Partial Dentures
We have two main options for you. If you are missing most or all of your teeth, then we can extract the last few to make room for a full set of dentures. We will take images and impressions of your bite, which we use to design and craft a set of prosthetics that contain a full set of lifelike ceramic teeth set in an acrylic base that mimics the appearance of gum tissues. Suction or adhesives will then keep your dentures in place.
If you are missing a lot of teeth and have gaps spread out across your smile, but enough natural teeth in place that a full isn’t necessary, we could offer a partial. This prosthetic contains new teeth set in a base like a full, but the teeth are designed to fit in the gaps in your smile. Metal clasps will attach to natural teeth to keep your new ones firmly in place.
Securing New Teeth With Dental Implants
Removable options like the ones we listed above are effective, but they don’t stop the gradual loss of mass and density in your jaw, which necessitates their replacement every five to ten years. But with dental implants, we will insert implant posts that stimulate jawbone growth to prevent your jaw from changing shape. Which means your new prosthetics can remain intact for decades to come! If you have any questions about how we take on tooth loss with dental implants, then contact our office today.
Learn More About Our Prosthetics By Calling Our Team
We want to help you smile with confidence again, so you can enjoy your favorite foods and an active social life. Call Pacific Hills Dental in Omaha, NE, today at (402)330-2243.
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