When you lose most of your teeth, your oral health, bite function, and even your appearance can suffer. But to preserve your facial structure and ensure stable new teeth, we could support dentures with dental implants. In today’s blog, your Conroe, TX, dentist explains how implant dentures can mimic a natural smile!
When to Seek Tooth Replacement
You should see us even when you have a single missing tooth, but we can also discuss tooth replacement if you’re lost most or all of your teeth, even if time has elapsed since your teeth were lost. Otherwise, the loss of your teeth could mean your body no longer sends doses of calcium and phosphates to the jaw structure around your missing root. Without these nutrients, your bone tissue loses mass and density, breaking down to cause further tooth loss and an older appearance. You could also develop issues eating, speaking clearly, and even feel embarrassed about your appearance, which impacts your quality of life. Our team can help prevent these complications with the placement of one or more dental implants.
Creating Custom Prosthetics
Our team will begin by examining your smile to understand the cause and assess the severity of your tooth loss. We may need to treat underlying oral health issues, like gum disease, that could threaten your new teeth. We also may need to extract the last few teeth to make room for your new dentures. Once we do, our team will take detailed digital images of the teeth from multiple angles, and then combine them to create a 3D impression. This will allow us to design and fabricate your new teeth with precision. Each denture contains a complete row of durable and lifelike teeth set in an acrylic base.
Your New Roots
Our team will use digital technology to guide the placement of dental implant posts into your smile. We could support a full prosthetic with as few as four posts per arch in some cases. These will bond with the jaw and act like natural rotos, which means your new prosthetics can last for decades instead of just 5 to 10 years. We then connect the prosthetics to them with abutments. Your dentures will be fixed in place, and never slip when you eat or speak. You also don’t need to remove them for cleaning and soaking. In some cases, the implant placement and attachment of a denture could occur in the same visit.
Do You Have Questions About Fixed Prosthetics?
Our team is here to help address missing teeth and offer you a stunning new smile. If you have questions about how we treat major tooth loss, then please contact The Dental Centre of Conroe in Conroe, TX by calling 936-441-4600 and schedule your next appointment with our team today.