Advantages of dental implants
When you have lost a tooth or teeth during your adult life, it can have a dramatic impact on your self-esteem, as well as how often you smile in photographs or when out and about.
Luckily, dental care has come a long way in the last 20 years and now, you don’t necessarily have to rely on fitted bridges or dentures to conceal these gaps. This is where oral implants come into play and can drastically change your life.
Our team at Doctor Bobby Chhoker has fitted many dental implants and is always happy to meet with patients to discuss them as a potential restorative option. We will assess your suitability for this treatment before you undertake it and will also make sure that you receive the highest standard of care working with our team to get the smile that you want.
At this point, you may be wondering if there are any other advantages to having dental implants fitted. In this article, we provide our top benefits to having them so you can ascertain if this is the treatment for you.
Better grip and bite
One thing that many patients who have lost teeth at the front of their mouths miss, is being able to grip and bite food with reasonable force. As dental implants are fitted to your jaw through fusion, the teeth that are attached will provide a stable force with which to bite into food and grip it, thus allowing you to eat harder foods.
Better orthodontics
If you lose a tooth in adult life then the jawbone will shrink, this can cause the surrounding teeth to move out of line unless something is put into place to prevent this from occurring
As oral implants promote bone growth, they prevent the surrounding natural teeth from moving out of alignment.
Better oral health
In a similar vein to orthodontic care, oral implants can offer patients better oral health too. This is because if you have gaps in your smile, these can act like magnets for food debris and bacteria to accumulate. This can cause the surrounding teeth to succumb to tooth decay and for the gums to fall victim to gum disease.
Having well-maintained oral implants will reduce the likelihood of you developing gum disease and will protect your surrounding teeth from tooth decay.
Better physical health
There have been numerous studies into dental health and general physical health, which have found patients who have an excess of plaque in their mouths are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, strokes and even heart attacks.
As mentioned before, if you have gaps in your smile, these can attract plaque which can then accumulate. Having implants fitted will reduce the chance of plaque building up in these areas and will therefore prevent it from entering the bloodstream, where it can cause the aforementioned issues to become more prevalent.
Better-looking smile
You should never underestimate the impact of a better-looking smile on how you feel about yourself and the world! One of the key advantages of having oral implants fitted is that you will be left with a smile that looks natural and functions just as well as a natural one does.
DISCLAIMER
All treatments carry risks. Individual consultation is required with one of our practitioners to ensure that the treatment is right for you.