Dental implants in Herefordshire
Missing teeth may affect your speech. They also might make eating more difficult, but more importantly, they may make you feel less whole. Sure you may still have the same confidence and you might just say, “Well, my friends like me for who I am so who cares”… but if there is that small niggling feeling at the back of your mind that every time you smile you are aware you have a gap in your teeth, then something needs to be done.
And it really isn’t just for aesthetic reasons either, missing teeth can actually have an impact on surrounding healthy teeth. They can have an impact on the facial muscles, causing them to drop slightly. Missing teeth can give more places for gum disease to develop, and even, in extreme cases, cause the jaw bone to deteriorate.
Dental implants in Herefordshire will not only make you whole again, but they are the only restorative treatment that will strengthen the jaw bone. Dental implants function like real teeth, they feel and look like real teeth, and after you get them inserted and everything has healed nicely, even you yourself won’t be able to tell which are the false and which are the real teeth.
//What are dental implants and how do they work//
At Warrendale Dental in Herefordshire, dental implants are implanted during a small surgical procedure. Small, titanium rods are inserted into the jawbone. These small rods replace the root of the tooth. What happens then is after the root has fused with the jawbone, a replacement crown is attached to the implant.
Dental implants in Herefordshire are the only tooth replacement treatment that mimics a real tooth so precisely that it includes root and crown. From just one root, up to three replacement teeth can be attached. If an entire arch needs to be replaced then two to four implants will need to be inserted.
Dental implants are long-lasting and fixed. You do not need to take them out for eating, cleaning or sleeping. As soon as they are in, that is it. You will just carry on like you never had teeth missing in the first place. It is as simple as that.