Restore your beaming smile with dental implants in Ross-on-Wye
If you have ever lost one or more teeth, you will have experienced the physical and emotional impact of one or more gaps in your mouth. Missing teeth can drastically alter your appearance. On top of that, you may think you have to spend the rest of your life wearing removable dentures or bridges, which many people find uncomfortable and even embarrassing.
But at Warrendale Dental Care in Ross-on-Wye, dental implants offer a far more stable, long-lasting and less noticeable solution to missing teeth.
You can leave your false teeth in the drawer forever once you have dental implants in Ross-on-Wye.
Tell me more about dental implants in Ross on Wye
Well, to start with, let’s look at what dental implants are. Dental implants are small metal screws, usually strong, light-weight titanium, that are fixed permanently into the jaw bone to replace the root of your missing tooth. This involves a surgical procedure, and time is needed afterwards for the gum to heal and the bone to grow around the dental implants. Once this has happened the bone will have actually meshed with the screw to hold it in place just as it would the root of a natural tooth.
Healing usually takes a few weeks and once achieved, the dentist can fix on an artificial tooth or bridge. The top part of your dental implants will have been custom-made out of porcelain or porcelain-composite, carefully toned to match the colour of your already-existing teeth, so the dental implants will blend in perfectly.
So dental implants are there forever?
They can be if well maintained. Once the implants are healed in, and the teeth fitted, you can treat your dental implants just like normal teeth. This means that you can eat the foods you want to eat, even crunchy or chewy foods, and you can brush your teeth like normal teeth.
Dentures and bridges usually need replacing every five years or so, but dental implants are potentially there for the rest of your life. In fact, fewer than five per cent of dental implants fail and have to be replaced, so you can pretty much forget about them entirely as being different from your other teeth.