This sporting life
If you are a keen sportsperson, you dice with injury every day. One common injury is getting a tooth or two knocked out. An emergency dentist may be able to put it back in for you, but if not, you now face a lifetime of a missing tooth. Such injuries are almost always to your front teeth, the loss of which makes biting harder and it doesn’t look all that good either.
What to do? At Warrendale Dental in Herefordshire, dental implants are a really good solution to sports-related tooth loss. Here’s why:
A lifelong solution
Firstly, dental implants in Herefordshire should last you a lifetime. If you are very young, that could be more than 60 years. In those years, if you have a partial denture or a bridge instead of a dental implant, you may have to replace it as many as seven or eight times. That’s a hassle, plus expense. So, although, dental implants are initially more expensive, if you know you are looking at decades of use, they will work out cheaper in the long run.
Just like normal
Secondly, dental implants in Herefordshire give you all the freedom of natural teeth, and none of the hassle associated with dentures, such as wobbly teeth, a restricted diet and complicated cleaning routines. This is because dental implants are inserted directly into the jawbone, as opposed to sitting on the gum. They integrate with the bone tissue to become as firmly held in place as a natural tooth. This gives you back all your biting and chewing pressure. Dentures, on the other hand, will usually lose their grip after a while and this brings us onto reason number three.
A strong jaw
Thirdly, dental implants help you maintain a strong, healthy jawbone. Without the vibrations sent down through the tooth roots when we eat, the jawbone assumes it is no longer in use and starts to resorb, shrinking in size and becoming less dense. Your chin gets nearer to your nose and your lower face starts to collapse in. This unattractive look is associated in our minds with old age, but is in fact due to loss of tooth roots.