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18 February 2015

Dental Implants: Change Your Smile and Change Your Face

Dental implants are a wonderful way to replace teeth that are missing, broken, crooked, or otherwise in need of improvement.  The flawed tooth is removed, and replaced with a small titanium post which is drilled into the jawbone. This tooth implant post is then used to support a new dental crown, or multiple posts are used to support multiple conjoined dental implants. The result is a flawless smile that will last for decades, or even a lifetime if you look after your new smile properly.  Replacing broken or missing teeth with dental implants is a process that can take months, but once complete the results are truly breath taking.

Your teeth are one of the most important aspects of your face, and when surveyed, thousands of single men and women said that good teeth was the first thing that the noticed and looked for in a spouse. Taking care of your smile and making the financial investment in replacing any broken or missing teeth, therefore, is massively important both for self-esteem and the quality of your smile.

Reasons People Choose Dental Implants

There are many reasons why someone might choose to have dental implants. Implants are ideal for replacing lost or broken teeth, and for transforming a self-conscious smile. Many individuals who regularly engage in contact sports choose to have dental impacts in order to replace teeth that may have been broken during their sporting career. Drug and alcohol abuse can also lead to missing or broken teeth, particularly addiction to certain drugs like crystal meth which has a notoriously degenerative effect on teeth. This means that many former addicts also choose to rebuild their smiles once they have been through the rehabilitation process and want to start their lives afresh. Sadly, simply aging can also lead to tooth loss and the effects of this on an individual’s self-confidence can be devastating. Many people who have lost or broken teeth report feeling ashamed of their teeth and feeling too self-conscious to smile, which can affect the overall quality of their life. They often don’t want to socialise or spend time with their family and friends. Dental implants can provide an almost instantaneous fix for this.

The Transformative Effects

Losing teeth doesn’t only affect your self-esteem and the quality of your smile, it can also affect the shape of your whole face. Your teeth support your cheeks and your lips, helping to create and preserve the contours of your face and creating a plumper and younger external effect. People who have experienced tooth loss may well notice that their face shape changes completely, with their cheeks appearing more hollow and gaunt. This can have a dramatically aging effect and if you have coped with missing or broken teeth for a while you will be amazed by the incredible face changing effects of having new teeth implants.

The Advantages of Opting For Dental Implants

There are many other advantages of opting to have dental implants too. Dental implants can help to protect and preserve your jawbone, keeping the bone strong and replicating the tooth root so that the surrounding bone continues to regenerate and produce healthy new cells. It is important that you have a healthy jaw bone in order to have tooth implant posts added, but most people who are in moderate health are able to have tooth implants. If you currently wear dentures then dental implants are much better alternative: they fit and feel just like your own teeth, meaning that you don’t have to add dentures every day or struggle with the discomfort of ill-fitting dentures moving around and rubbing your mouth. Finally, dental implants are as strong as real teeth, meaning that you will be able to enjoy all of your favourite foods again: crisp apples, toffee and crunchy cookies no longer have to be taboo!

Resources

“Thousands of singles say teeth are the most important aspect on a potential date – and more than half won’t consider a partner with debt greater that 5k”, The Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276209/Thousands-singles-say-TEETH-important-asset-prospective-date–HALF-wont-consider-partner-debt-greater-5K.html

“Your inpatient meth treatment rehab center options”, Drug Treatmenthttp://www.drugtreatment.com/topics/inpatient-meth-treatment/

“The hidden consequences of losing teeth”, Dear Doctor Dentistry and Oral Healthhttp://www.deardoctor.com/articles/hidden-consequences-of-losing-teeth/

“How meth destroys the body”, PBS Frontlinehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/body/

“Edentulism: Causes and Consequences of Tooth Loss”, Consumer Guide to Dentistryhttp://www.yourdentistryguide.com/tooth-loss/

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