The benefits of choosing dental implants to replace your missing teeth
Dental implants provide a functional, reliable, and cost-effective solution to tooth loss. At Warrendale Dental Care in Ross-on-Wye, our implant dentists can use implants to replace one, some, or even all of your natural teeth, producing results that are both aesthetically appealing and natural in action.
Replacing any missing teeth promptly is vital to your dental and general health as well as to your body-image and confidence in your smile. At our Ross-on-Wye dental clinic we believe that dental implants are often the most effective way to do so.
Ross-on-Wye dental implants
Standard dentures and bridges replace only the crowns of the teeth, but dental implants replace the roots. Tooth roots are important not just to ensuring your teeth stay firmly in place, but also to the health of your jaw bone.
Problems with loose dentures are usually caused by resorbtion or shrinkage of the jaw bone, which is a common side effect of having missing teeth. This can lead to difficulty in eating a healthy diet, issues with speaking clearly, and with self-confidence.
Dental implants are bionic tooth roots. Made from titanium, these small posts or screws are put in direct contact with your jaw bone in a minor operation, carried out here at our modern Ross-on-Wye dental practice. After a period of healing, during which osseointegration takes place (this means that your dental implants form a strong bond with your jaw bone) your dentist will attach permanent new teeth.
When just one tooth has to be replaced, we will place a single implant and attach a crown, which will be matched closely in colour to your natural teeth. In the case of several or all of your teeth needing replacing, the good news is you won’t need as many implants as teeth. In most cases a series of implants will be enough to support a full arch of teeth.
Full-mouth restorations at our Ross-on-Wye clinic may involve a denture, which will be removable for cleaning but will otherwise stay in place, or a bridge, which is designed to stay in your mouth permanently.