You need to have overall good bone health to support dental implants. Once you have sufficient bone and jaw density to get dental implants, they can improve your bone health in the future. An oral surgeon can determine whether you are suitable for dental implant surgery.
Dental Implants Can Prevent Bone Loss
When you are missing a tooth, there is more direct exposure to your bone because it is not covered. Normally, the force that you use to chew is helpful in stimulating a healthy jawbone through the signals that it sends directly to the bone. When you are not chewing in a certain area, these signals decrease, and you may experience bone resorption. When you receive a dental implant, you will begin chewing again in that area. Although dental implants would not necessarily help you regrow bone, they could help prevent any more bone loss in the future than you have already experienced.
Implants Can Improve Chewing Function
The chewing process has far more benefits to your body than you may have understood. Being able to chew food properly helps with your digestion. When that happens, you would get more nutrients from your food, leading to a chain reaction of positive benefits. Better nutrition helps all of the bones in your body, including your bones. One or more dental implants can strengthen your bones, which, in turn, builds your overall health.
Dental Implants Keep Your Teeth from Shifting
If you are missing a tooth, your mouth has a gap. The teeth in the adjacent areas will begin to shift in an attempt to fill the gap. Your teeth would then be out of alignment, which can decrease the bone density in your jaw. Filling the gap in your mouth with a dental implant can prevent this and protect the bone in your mouth from becoming less healthy over time.
Implants Can Help You Maintain Your Jawbone
Your jaw needs to be strong and stable because one of its main jobs is to support the teeth in your mouth. Your jaw needs to be strong enough to support a full set of teeth, including dental implants. If you lose too much of your jawbone because of oral health issues, you will need to get a jawbone graft. Bones do not regenerate or regrow, so you need a procedure to restore what you have lost. A jawbone graft may be a prerequisite for dental implants if your oral surgeon determines that you have already lost too much to support the new teeth.
Dental Implants Integrate With the Jawbone
When you have dental implants, your mouth will undergo a process known as osseointegration. Here, the integration of the implant with your jawbone will stimulate the growth of your bone and help maintain its density. Not only will the implant be better supported, but the process will also lead to better oral health, potentially keeping you from losing additional teeth in the future.
An oral surgeon can explain both the requirements to have dental implant surgery and the benefits that it may have for you. All you need to do is schedule an appointment with an oral surgeon, who will perform a comprehensive oral evaluation.
Contact the South Jersey Dental Implant Surgeons at Lanzi Burke Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
The South Jersey dental implant surgeons at Lanzi Burke Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons can help you achieve that new smile that you want and need. Contact us today to schedule your initial evaluation, where an oral surgeon will perform a comprehensive oral examination of your mouth and help determine whether dental implants are right for you. Call us today at 856-582-4222 or contact us online to schedule your consultation. We have offices in Washington Township, Haddonfield, and Woolwich Township, New Jersey, and we treat patients in South Jersey.