Dental Implants Can Restore Your Smile to Its Natural Beauty

When you’re feeling good about life, a smile comes naturally – an outward expression of amusement, happiness, joy or contentment. Scientists say smiling helps you to feel better about yourself because it changes your brain chemistry. However, if you’ve suffered tooth loss you’re likely to be too embarrassed and self-conscious to show off your smile.

The best solution to this problem? Dental implants, which can restore your smile to its natural beauty and give you back your self-confidence. Before dental implants came along, people with missing teeth had to rely on dentures that could be prone to embarrassing mishaps or bridges that could be irritating.

The high level of functionality of implants coupled with their ability to restore your attractive smile has made them a popular, convenient and comfortable alternative to other systems of tooth replacement.

Implants not only restore your smile but give you back the whole life you enjoyed with natural teeth. Implants feel like natural teeth, so you can eat and speak as normal. They also look natural – indistinguishable from real teeth.

With implants, you don’t have to worry about unsightly staining spoiling your smile. As well as being stain resistant, implants are also impervious to decay. Your implants – and your smile – will stay bright and beautiful with normal at-home oral health care.

A Beautiful Smile With a Healthy Mouth

Besides restoring your smile, implants have major health advantages over other tooth replacements.

As well as giving you the confidence to show off your smile again, implants also help to prevent deterioration of the facial structure by preserving the bone.

An implant is a small titanium post, inserted into the socket of a missing tooth. The jaw regrows around the implant, holding it firmly in the jaw. When the implant and bone have fused, an abutment is fitted to hold the new tooth firmly, and a crown is then attached to the abutment.

Removable dentures and bridges may need replacing over time but implants provide a permanent solution to tooth loss because they become part of your jaw and maintain its structural integrity.

Bone, like muscle, wastes away when not used. Dentures and bridges can’t address this issue but implants provide an effective solution as robust tooth root replacements – giving you another reason to smile!

A further benefit of implants is an improvement in the bite function. The biting power of conventional dentures is far less than that of your natural teeth and this can cause breakdown of bone. The bite force of implants is as strong as natural teeth. You can chew practically anything you want to, rather than having to cut more and more foods from your diet.