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Have you found yourself avoiding certain foods lately, because it’s difficult to chew ever since you suffered from tooth loss? Do you avoid taking photos with family and friends, ever since you had to have a tooth extracted? An incomplete smile can create a number of frustrations, both cosmetically and functionally. Fortunately, modern dental prostheses exist to help patients rebound from tooth loss with natural-looking and comfortable smile solutions. So you don’t have to settle for an incomplete smile any longer. You need to talk to your restorative dentist about how a prostheses could help!
While tooth loss can surely create cosmetic concerns, it can also create functional problems for the smile. That is why completing the smile is important to one’s ongoing oral health, as well as his or her confidence.
For instance, after tooth loss remaining teeth often try to shift to fill the created gap. This can lead to alignment problems that can make chewing difficult or even uncomfortable. Eventually it can also lead to jaw-related pains and subconscious teeth grinding. Dental prostheses help to address the tooth loss by completing the smile, helping to prevent remaining teeth from shifting out of alignment.
For patients who want stable ways of completing their smiles, the dentist might recommend using a partial or full denture in conjunction with either a bridge or a dental implant. Both help to provide added stability when chewing.
Dental bridges do so through the use of crowns affixed to remaining teeth, while implants rely on titanium posts which can be surgically inserted into the jaw to hold a replacement tooth or teeth in place.
Do You Need to Complete Your Smile?
Lost a tooth or had to have one or several extracted? Call Stephens and Gatewood Dentistry on Cypresswood Drive at 832-843-6619 to schedule a prosthetic consultation. Located in Spring, TX, we also proudly serve the residents of Houston, The Woodlands, Tomball, Cypress, and all surrounding communities.
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