Dental Implants: Your Smile Savers

Losing a tooth (or teeth) can be a shattering experience — emotionally and professionally. Aside from the obvious problems of poor physical appearance and damaged self-esteem, missing teeth also cause subsequent dilemmas like loss of chewing ability or ineffective speech. Dental implants are uniquely stable, eliminating the need for removable or partial dentures. They can also serve as an anchor for other dental prostheses like crowns, bridges and dentures. With dental implants, you will be able to eat, speak, smile and laugh confidently. You will never have to worry about your teeth all while enjoying your everyday life.

Are there any chances of rejection?

The body can reject soft tissue transplants i.e. kidney, lung, heart transplant but there is no rejection to dental implant by the body. There are chances of failure because of factors such as lack of focus on implant/some other condition, misalignment or diseases the patient suffers from. Dental implants use titanium material that is bio compatible i.e. it is compatible with the tissues of the body. Titanium is widely used now days to replace parts of the body.

What side effects one has to face without a dental implant?

When a person looses teeth the bones of the teeth also become weak and after some time these bones disappear other problems emerge such as:-

• The adjacent teeth become week and there is no support for partials, dentures and bridges. These further results in pain, mobile tissues of the gum, sore spots, painful ridges, lack of retention etc.
• The tongue also enlarges as it accommodates the space of missing teeth.
• The diet changes and one has to survive on soft food.
• Bone loss results in numbness of lower lips and there are chances of jaw fracture.
• Hence one should start the treatment at an early stage because the problem becomes more severe if the treatment is delayed.
• Bone loss makes the adjacent bones weak which causes falling of nearby teeth.