Your ability to bite and chew can be affected by tooth loss, and your confidence in your smile can certainly also suffer a major blow. Your dentist has the ability to restore your smile if you have isolated tooth loss, or if you have several teeth you need to replace. Your dental prosthetic should improve on your ability to bite and chew, and can even address with speaking that tooth loss can cause. Thanks to modern materials, your dentist can supply you with a restoration that looks natural enough to effectively give you your smile back.
Receiving A Dental Prosthetic
Depending on what best suits your needs, you can receive a dental bridge, or a set of partial or full dentures. Dentures address more serious cases of tooth loss. A complete denture will replace a full row of teeth. Partial dentures allow you to keep remaining teeth in a row while working around them to cover all gaps in your smile. If you have a single missing tooth, or an isolated section of missing teeth, your dentist can provide you with a permanently placed bridge.
Worried About Tooth Loss? Pay Attention To Your Periodontal Health
If you want to keep your teeth, pay attention to your gums. The main reason adults lose teeth is because of periodontal trouble. If you see signs that indicate your gum tissue might be infected, reach out to your dentist to address the matter. With a periodontal cleaning, you can have bacteria under your gum line removed. The process sees your dentist take the additional step of treating those areas of teeth under your gums in order to make it harder for bacteria to accumulate there in the future.
Greenhaven Family Dental Can Help You Address Tooth Loss
If you need help to address tooth loss, reach out for care through Greenhaven Family Dental. You can receive a custom-made prosthetic that give you a natural-looking smile that no longer makes you self-conscious, or holds you back when you try to bite, chew, or speak. To learn more about prosthetic dentistry, or to schedule a consultation, call our office in Baxter, MN, today at (218) 454-0523. We happily welcome patients from Brainerd, Little Falls, Staples, Crosby-Ironton-Deerwood, and all surrounding communities.