If you have suffered from severe tooth loss, you may need more than a dental bridge. Instead, you need a denture, which can handle more severe cases, even total tooth loss! In today’s blog, your team at Delightful Dental Care in Kansas City, MO, talks about tackling severe tooth loss with dentures. We have the ability to rebuild and restore your smile, helping those who have lost most or all of their natural teeth feel confident and enjoy their favorite foods again.
The Causes and Impacts of Tooth Loss
What causes tooth loss, especially a case severe enough to require dentures? For some, minor tooth loss could occur due to factors like injury, tooth decay, and even infection. However, periodontitis, the advanced stage of gum disease, could be the cause of severe tooth loss for our patients. When you lose that many teeth, this severely limits your meal options, limits your ability to speak clearly, and could make you feel uncomfortable in social situations. As your jawbone erodes, this could also mean an aged appearance. But we can return function, health, and beauty to your smile, taking on severe tooth loss with prosthetics. You don’t have to hide your smile to feel embarrassed, or what your youthful facial structure erodes. We can help with dentures, both removable and supported with dental implants.
Partial Dentures
If you have lost several teeth, with gaps spread out across your smile, then this could be too severe for a bridge, but you may have enough natural teeth in place that we don’t need to create a full denture. Thankfully, we have the partial. The prosthetic will have new teeth set in an acrylic base, a base that looks like gum tissue. We take care to ensure the new teeth look natural, and that when the prosthetic is in place, they fit in the gaps in your smile. Which means once you wear your prosthetic, you have a full smile instantly. With a removable partial, the prosthetic could be usable for 5 to 10 years on average before replacement is needed.
A Complete Set
What if you are missing most or all of your teeth? If this happens, then our team could gently extract the last few teeth and take detailed images of your bite, which we will use to design and craft your new dentures. These will contain a full row lifelike ceramic teeth set in an acrylic base. Suction or an adhesive will keep the new teeth in place, and they can last about 6 to 10 years before replacement is needed. We will discuss how to properly clean and soak them, and how to keep them long-lasting and bright. With this option, we can restore function, health, and beauty to your smile.
Dental Implant Options
While removable dentures are effective, they only last a few years and they do not address the changes to your jawbone that follow missing teeth. When we lose teeth, the jawbone itself begins to erode and weaken, seeking dentures to be replaced as this happens and causing an aged appearance. But! With dental implants, we can insert several posts per arch, which are inserted into the jaw and act like new roots. This ensures the jawbone remains strong and intact, so you maintain your youthful appearance too. This also means your new teeth can stay in place for decades to come with proper care and attention! We attach the prosthetic to the posts, which fixes them in place. No need to remove them for soaking and cleaning, and no worries about slippage during meals or speech.
If you have any questions about how we address major tooth loss with full or partial dentures, or if you want to learn more about how we secure them with dental implants, then contact our team today. We can examine your smile to see which option is best for you, and we can help you understand your dental benefits to see what is covered, so we can plan the process in detail along with you, helping you on your journey to a full smile.
Schedule Your Appointment and Enjoy a Full Smile Again
To help take on multiple missing teeth and obtain a complete smile again, then talk about prosthetic dentistry with Dr. Diana Tabakh, DDS. We can take on minor tooth loss with a bridge or an individual dental implant, but we can also offer removable prosthetics or even fixed options to help address major gaps and restore function, health, and beauty to your smile cone again. To schedule your appointment, please call Delightful Dental Care in Kansas City, MO at (816) 942-7669 today.