Missing teeth can affect your long-term oral health and self-confidence. Dental implants may be just what you need if you’re struggling to smile and worried about the effects of missing teeth. They’re a permanent, realistic-looking way to restore a full smile and protect oral health.
At Densley Dental, our talented restorative and cosmetic dentist, Dr. Aman Sidhu, leads our highly trained team in customizing tooth replacement options in Las Vegas and Henderson, NV.
With our in-house dental lab and high-tech equipment like a CT scan machine on site, we provide start-to-finish solutions for missing teeth.
Our patients with missing teeth often ask us about dental implants. They commonly wonder if they’re as good as they sound. Today’s blog answers that question and discusses some of the incredible advantages dental implants can offer.
Understanding Dental Implants
Dental implants are small, screw-shaped titanium posts surgically inserted into the jawbone. Over time, they fuse with the surrounding bone.
Once healed, a custom porcelain crown is placed on top, creating a natural-looking replacement tooth that blends seamlessly with your existing teeth.
Why Get Dental Implants?
Whether you’ve lost teeth due to an accident, decay, or extractions, the result is the same. Eventually, the jawbone beneath the tooth socket shrinks.
That happens because tooth roots constantly stimulate bone, leading to continual bone renewal. No roots, no jawbone stimulation—and that can lead to the face looking caved-in, shortened, or shrunken. These jawbone changes can also cause your remaining teeth to loosen and move into the wrong places, resulting in bite problems like difficulty talking and eating.
Dental implants replace your tooth roots. They trigger bone renewal, as your tooth roots did, and help preserve your jaw and keep your facial structure and teeth stable.
Dental implants are the only tooth replacement option that does this.
Advantages of Dental Implants
You now know how dental implants work to preserve your bone structure and facial integrity, but what about their other benefits? There are many, including:
- 95% success rate
- Permanent
- Indiscernible from natural teeth
- Improved chewing
- Improved speaking
- No adhesives
- No worries about teeth falling out or shifting
It’s no wonder that dental implants are the gold standard for tooth restoration.
Implant Options at Densley Dental
At Densley Dental, we offer several types of implant solutions depending on your needs:
- Single-Tooth Replacements: The best option for replacing one missing tooth. They won’t decay or need root canals.
- Multi-Tooth Replacements: We can replace small groups of teeth using one or two implants that mix with your natural teeth to support a bridge.
- Implant-Supported Dentures: These dentures, also called snap-on or implant-retained dentures, lock into place permanently to elevate traditional dentures to a permanent solution for whole-arch tooth replacement.
Dental Implants in Las Vegas and Henderson
Curious about dental implants in Las Vegas, Henderson, or anywhere in Clark County? Call Densley Dental at 702-212-6641 to schedule a consultation now.
