Losing a tooth, even just one tooth, could mean trouble for your oral health and bite function. To prevent complications and restore beauty to your smile, we can offer a custom prosthetic. In today’s blog, your Ankeny, IA, dentist talks about our dental bridges and partial dentures.
The Importance of Taking on Tooth Loss
When you suffer from tooth loss, this could be due to a number of various factors. Injury, tooth decay, infection, and even periodontal disease could all be responsible for the gaps in your smile. We urge you to seek treatment so you feel good about your appearance and avoid impacts on your ability to eat and speak. Replacing missing teeth also helps you avoid complications like misalignment, TMJ disorder, and bruxism (teeth grinding). Even minor tooth loss, such as a single missing tooth, should be addressed, so reach out to our team right away!
Dental Bridges
If you have lost one tooth or as many as three in a row, then our team could offer a dental bridge. The prosthetic contains new teeth with crowns on each end; all made from ceramic and shade to blend with your smile. The ceramic material can also handle daily bite forces. Our team will gently numb the teeth on each side of the gap and then remove structure from them. We next take images and measurements of these teeth and the gap itself, which we use in a lab setting to design and craft your dental bridge. When your custom prosthetic is ready, we will connect the crowns to the abutment teeth to secure your new tooth or teeth firmly in place, often for as many as 10 to 15 years!
Securing Our Partial Dentures
If you have multiple missing teeth spread out across your smile, this could be too much for a bridge to handle, but you may still have enough natural teeth that a full denture isn’t needed either. Instead, we could offer a set of partial dentures. With this prosthetic, we create lifelike ceramic teeth and set them in an acrylic base that looks like gum tissues. When in place, metal clasps will attach to natural teeth to keep your new ones firmly in place. This replaces all the missing teeth at once with a single prosthetic.
If you have any questions about how we take in minor or even complicated cases of tooth loss, or if you are ready to discuss a bridge or partial, then please reach out to our team today to learn more and get started.
Dental Impressions Offers Custom Dental Prosthetics
A complete smile could be possible with our dental prosthetics, so talk to our team today. To schedule an appointment for tooth replacement, then call Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA today at (515) 965-0230.
