You might find that when you are thinking about how to protect your dental implants, you remain focused on the details of your brushing and flossing. You also pay close attention to what is required of you when it comes to scheduling professional dental care, such as your cleanings and your exams. However, one thing you really need to remember to consider that you might be forgetting about? Avoiding trauma! While you certainly don’t need to obsess about your smile, you can very easily take steps to prevent damage.

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When you choose dental implants for yourself, you are essentially choosing “implant support.” What does this mean? Well, it means that instead of seeking support for your prosthetic of choice from your smile, you’re seeking it from artificial means. Let’s break down the details: Traditionally supported devices like dentures rely on natural suction. Dental bridges rely on natural teeth to which they are bonded. However, if you select implant support, the implants do all of the work! So, what are the major drawbacks of choosing traditional support? Let’s explore!

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One of the things you hear over and over when you’re learning about dental implants is that they last forever. This sounds amazing, of course, but it also sounds like one of those things that is likely too fantastic to be true. So, what to make of this statement? Do they really stay in place for the rest of your life? Or, do you need to take on a more realistic outlook regarding what you can expect? In short: They really do last. Now, let’s get down to details!

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There are some things that are very easy to feel sure about or to completely dismiss. Usually in these cases, the stakes aren’t high and the decision might not create significant ripples in your life either way. However, when it comes to choosing dental implants, though this is certainly not something to spend an excess of emotional energy on, it’s also not something you may feel ready to rush into. Why is it okay to spend a bit of time considering all of the details? Taking a realistic look at whether they truly work for you (or not) will ensure you’re happy with your choice in the long run.

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If you’re a smoker, you may find that you hear things here and there about your habit’s potential effect on your ability to receive dental implants. For some, this is impetus enough to quit. For others, this is cause for serious questioning to determine whether one may smoke and enjoy replacing missing teeth with the extraordinary stability and long life of implants. Our quick session of questions and answers will help you begin to better understand how smoking and candidacy relate.

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When you think about protecting your dental implants, you probably imagine certain very hard foods to avoid. You probably think about the ways you should be caring for your smile with visits and through appropriate dental hygiene. However, you may be overlooking some habits you participate in, possibly on a daily basis, that can ultimately send your implants down a path toward damage or failure. Learn more to avoid this dilemma!

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You may find yourself wondering if you’re at a point in your life when your age and other factors make you a fantastic candidate for dental implants. The truth is, it’s probably not exactly what you think. When it comes to your smile, age only plays a small role in whether you qualify. As you age out of your childhood and teen years, the most significant detail is whether you’re keeping your oral health safe. Remember that, as you learn more about whether now is a good time for implants!

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You may wonder exactly what happens as we plan to provide you with dental implants. Do you just show up one day, we select locations that will probably ensure you end up with a nice smile, and then implant the posts? Not quite. As you may have guessed, this is a treatment that requires the utmost of precision, which means planning is a serious step before we begin the actual process of placing and restoring your implants. Let’s take a quick stroll through what happens in the planning stages, so you can achieve a comfort level.

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There are reasons to “get a move on,” so to speak, when it comes to replacing your missing teeth. This is just as true for partials and bridges as it is for patients who have decided to consider dental implants. Though, with implants, there are additional reasons to be a bit hasty with your planning. Not sure that you know much about why replacing missing teeth with implants today is any different than replacing them in a year from now? We can fix that!

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It can be very easy to convince yourself that you are not a good candidate for dental implants. However, the information you have used in order to make yourself believe you simply cannot go through with receiving implant may not be accurate. Rather than moving on with life without ever actually seeing us about your qualifications for implants (only to find out later that you would have made a perfectly good candidate), we strongly suggest you come see us. In either case, it’s best to have the facts.

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