Dental Health Issues That Can be Prevented When You Choose a Dental Implant for Tooth Replacement

When you lose teeth, even just a single tooth, you will want to have it replaced. Several tooth replacement options are made available to you in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area. Out of these, Mark H. Wright, DDS offers dental implants that help keep your smile beautiful and healthy while also providing benefits to your jaw.

Let us look at some long-term oral health issues a dental implant can help you avoid.

Prevents Shifting

You will have a gap in your smile when you lose a tooth. This may not seem like a big deal to you, especially if it is not in your “smile zone,” You may even find ways to live with it. But what will eventually happen is that your remaining teeth will start to shift into the gap. This can create new gaps and alignment issues due to the movement and can become a severe problem.

Getting a dental implant to fill the gap left by a missing tooth can prevent this from being a concern you need to worry about.

Prevent Jawbone Deterioration

Every tooth in your mouth has a root below the gum line, rooted into your jawbone. Every time you exert force on a tooth, the stimulation from this force reverberates down the tooth into the root, effectively stimulating your jawbone. When a tooth is lost, so is this stimulation. Without it, your jawbone can begin to deteriorate and be reabsorbed into the body. Have you ever seen somebody with basic dentures whose face looks sunken and overly aged? This is likely due to some level of jawbone deterioration. The great thing about a dental implant, and something that other tooth replacement options cannot imitate, is that it is implanted into the jawbone, replacing the missing tooth root. Once your jaw fuses to the implant via osseointegration, it will provide the necessary stimulation to the jaw so it can remain healthy.

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Mark H. Wright, please call (719) 624-4122 today.