While prosthetic dentistry offers more than one way to restore a smile with a missing tooth, having a dental implant can help address the lost tooth root. The implant itself is not the replacement tooth. Once it has healed, your dentist can place a restoration, like a dental crown, on it. Much of your implant will reside below your gum line, and your jawbone will actually fuse with it. This creates a remarkable stability, which means you can use your implant-held restoration effectively for biting and chewing.
1. You Can Avoid Affecting Neighboring Teeth With Your Replacement
Replacing an individual tooth, or adjoining lost teeth, can affect the teeth surrounding the absence you are addressing. To keep a dental bridge in place, crowns are placed on the adjacent teeth, meaning you are potentially being asked to modify healthy teeth. An implant, because it derives stability from your jawbone, does not need to interfere with surrounding teeth.
2. You Can Enjoy Support Similar To What Your Teeth Receive From Their Roots
The root-like support of your dental implant means your replacement tooth has the kind of stability your natural teeth enjoy.
3. There Are Benefits To The Health Of Your Jaw
Your oral health operates at its best when you have a full set of teeth. When just one is lost, it can be disruptive. Stimulation from your tooth roots matters for the health of your jaw – losing teeth means losing stimulation, and that can mean deterioration of the bone. An implant can provide that stimulation again, and protect you against that deterioration.
