When you lose a tooth, this leaves a gap behind that can impact the appearance, health, and function of your smile. To fill this gap and safeguard your smile, we can create and place a dental bridge. In today’s blog, your Ankeny, IA, dentist talks about how we address the empty spaces in your smile with a dental bridge.
The Causes and Risks of a Missing Tooth
What happens to your smile when you lose a tooth, or as many as three in a row? With this gap, your teeth could begin to shift, which creates dental misalignment. This alone could increase the risk of cavities and gum disease, and lead to negative changes to the appearance of your smile. You could have issues eating and speaking clearly. Missing teeth could occur due to issues like injury, tooth decay, or infection. Gum disease is actually the most common cause. But our team can take one minor tooth loss with dental bridges, so you can smile with confidence again.
Creating Your Dental Prosthetic
The dental bridge will be custom-made to ensure a lifelike appearance and also a secure and long-lasting replacement tooth. We want you to be able to eat your favorite foods again and feel confident in your appearance! To start, we will numb the teeth on each side of a gap so you remain comfortable as we remove structure from them. These abutment teeth will later help support your new prosthetic. We then take detailed digital images and impressions of your bite, which we use in a lab setting to design and craft a custom dental prosthetic.
How We Secure Your Dental Bridge
The completed dental bridge will be made from ceramic, which can handle daily bite forces and be shaded to bend with your smile. The prosthetic will contain new teeth with crowns on each end, which we attach to the abutment teeth to support your replacement option. But! We could also discuss supporting them with dental implants, which provides a longer-lasting tooth replacement, as dental implants act like new roots and keep the jawbone intact.
If you have any questions about how our team will treat tooth loss with a dental prosthetic, or about how to start the process of tooth replacement, then contact our office today to learn more and get started. Make this summer the time you finally take on your tooth loss and regain the ability to smile with confidence!
Dental Impressions Provides A Solution for Tooth Loss
We want to help treat your missing teeth with a custom-made dental prosthetic! To schedule your appointment for one of our custom dental prosthetics, then call Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA today at (515) 965-0230.
