It can be difficult to live with tooth loss for many reasons. This problem can make you self-conscious about your appearance, and it can cause problems in your daily life by interfering with your ability to bite and chew with a natural movement. Losing your ability to comfortably bite and chew can lead to problems with your diet, as you may have to narrow the range of foods that you can enjoy, which can have a long-term impact on your health. At our Ankeny, IA dentist’s office, we can discuss the restoration of your smile and dental function with prosthetic dental work that includes dental implants. With dental implants to hold them, restorations can be counted on to provide support when you bite and chew, adding to the range of foods that you can enjoy.
Certain Foods Can Be Difficult To Enjoy After You Lose Teeth
Simply put, tooth loss makes it harder for you to comfortably bite and chew. A person’s dental function is based on the presence of all of their teeth. If even one is missing, it creates trouble for your ability to eat tougher foods. It can also become a concern because the chewing and biting you are able to do can feel awkward, and the strain it creates may lead to pain and habitual teeth grinding.
Including Dental Implant Placement In Plans To Restore Your Smile
When discussing plans to restore your smile through prosthetic dental work, we can review the benefits of having restorations put in place with dental implants. Implants are capable of holding dental crowns, or larger restorations like dental bridges. Implants are put in place to hold these restorations to your jawbone, mimicking the kind of support that teeth have from their roots. This work can lead to better bite function, and it can also give you a smile that once again looks healthy and natural!
Dental Implants Also Help You Sustain A Healthy Jaw
The ability to improve your bite function can do more than just restore your diet. When you have implants in place, they can create the stimulation that the roots of your teeth create any time you bite and chew. That stimulation has a valuable role to play in protecting your jaw health, as it leads to the delivery of nutrients that keep the bone healthy. What this means is that by stimulating the bone, you can protect it from a loss of mass.
Talk To Your Ankeny, IA Dentist About Implant-Held Restorations
With an implant-held restoration, you will be able to bite, chew, and smile with more confidence after losing a tooth, or several teeth. To find out more, please contact Dental Impressions at (515) 965-0230 to schedule a visit.
