Can Dental Implants Change the Shape of your Face?

A dental implant is an excellent option for teeth restoration. It is also a popular trending choice. A dental implant is a screw that is installed inside the jaw bone to replace a missing tooth. Let us explore it further.

A tooth serves multiple functions to our oral health. When you lose a tooth, there is a tiny space that gets vacant. However, many ramifications impact your entire jaw, bite and the shape of your face. How can one reduce the effects caused due to this?

What happens when you lose a tooth?
There are only a few people who are aware of the fact that a missing tooth can affect the shape of your face. While your teeth grow gradually, it continuously stimulates the surrounding jaw bone. This results in the deposition of calcium in the bone, making it sturdy and thick. Once you lose a tooth due to cavities, infection or trauma, there will be no stimulation and your jaw begins to shrink almost immediately, which leads to bone decay called resorption. This drains the calcium from your bone as your body believes that with tooth loss, the affected area of the jaw bone is no longer required.

This process of degeneration of the jaw bone begins rapidly, particularly within the first year of tooth loss. You can suffer the loss of bone density up to 25% which advances over the next few years. Also, the bone underneath the missing tooth is lost, but it might reach the unhealthy teeth and can lead to more tooth loss, shifting of teeth and change in bite.

What will happen due to bone resorption to your face?

The impact of tooth loss on your face can be massive as it completely changes the facial structure and leads to a sunken appearance. Apart from that tooth loss can also have an impact on the muscle hold of your cheeks and even your jawline. It can change the height of your face, nose and chin, but its effects are mostly seen on your mouth. With the reduction in the height of your jawline, the corner of your lips reduces, resulting in more wrinkles near the mouth. With an increasing tooth loss, the chin begins to protrude ahead, making you look older.

How Dental Implants help your face?

Dental Implants is a surgical component that is attached to the jaw bone to support a dental prosthesis. It is made of a titanium screw which is installed inside your jaw bone to replace your tooth. The most significant benefit is that the body reacts to implants as if they are natural teeth and starts bone deposit around it. In just a few days the implants will fuse to the jaw bone by a process called osseointegration.

How to get dental implants?
In an ideal situation, it is advisable to seek consultation with an implant specialist before tooth extraction to plan the treatment well in advance and make it possible for you to reap the most benefits.

During your consultation, an implantologist will examine your teeth and advise you a suitable procedure. It is crucial to consult with a specialist to know your options. Your implantologist will evaluate your bone and jaw and then determine if you need bone grafting and augmentation before placing implants. The complete surgery is performed under local anaesthesia so that you do not feel any pain, and remain comfortable throughout the procedure. There will be mild soreness after the surgery, which will heal gradually.

If you are looking to improve your facial features due to tooth loss and get an implant, then we have a team of expert implantologist to help you with all your concern. To book an appointment visit us at rajkotdentist.com

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