For people with missing teeth, whether minor or severed, we could offer a solution that also fortifies your jaw and keeps your youthful facial features intact. With dental implants, we can support lifelike new teeth that can potentially last for decades to come. In today’s blog, Pacific Hills Dental talks about placing dental implants in Omaha, NE.
How Tooth Loss Weakens Your Jaw
When we lose teeth a number of serious complications occur. Without tooth roots, the surrounding jawbone weakens and erodes, which could lead to further tooth loss and over time, a prematurely aged appearance. Missing teeth also limits meal options and deprives us of essential nutrients, which harms our overall oral health. Our quality of life suffers too, as clear speech is difficult and many people avoid social situations, but we can return function, health, and beauty to your smile by addressing missing teeth with one or more dental implants.
Preserving Smiles with Dental Implants
A dental implant is a very small and thin post made from biocompatible titanium. Screw-like in appearance, this is surgically inserted into the jaw, and acts like a new root. Since the body sees this as natural root structure, the flow of nutrients resumes to preserve the jawbone and ensure your new teeth can last for years to come, decades or possibly a lifetime. We can use one to address a single missing tooth, or place several to support a prosthetic, such as a bridge or denture. We will guide them into place with advanced imaging technology to ensure the proper positions, depths, and angles to keep your smile full and beauty for years to come.
Ensuring a Lifelike Appearance
Once the post (or posts) are in place, we will complete the process. For an individual one, we will attach a custom crown that looks natural and blends with the smile. For a larger gap, we could place a bridge, attached to one to two dental implants. For a full set of new teeth, we could place as few as four per arch, or as many as six to eight. We then attach a complete set of new teeth, again custom-made to provide a lifelike appearance. These will also be able to handle daily bite forces and pressures with ease.
Our team can then discuss ways to help ensure your new teeth last with better oral hygiene habits at home and routine visits to our office for exams and cleanings. If you have any questions about how we will replace your missing teeth with dental implants, or if you are ready to contact our team to start the process, then reach out to our office today!
Learn More About Implant Dentistry!
Our team wants to help address your minor or even severe tooth loss with our dental prosthetics. Call Pacific Hills Dental in Omaha, NE, today at (402)330-2243.
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