When you’ve lost permanent teeth, it can do more than wreak havoc on your oral health. It can also be embarrassing and take a negative toll on your self-esteem and confidence. If you’ve been considering closing the empty spaces in your smile with durable, lifelike dental implants but still aren’t convinced they can change your life, keep reading. Here are five incredible benefits of these extraordinary restorations that go way beyond oral health!
They Can Make You Look Younger
Although we typically associate empty spaces in the smile with little ones shedding their baby teeth, when you’ve lost a permanent tooth as an adult, it doesn’t exactly make you look more youthful. In fact, it can have quite the opposite effect, thanks to jawbone deterioration, sagging cheekbones, and those unsightly gaps in your grin. However, when you replace those lost pearly whites with durable, lifelike dental implants you can take years off your smile, and regain an overall more youthful, healthy appearance.
They Can Expand Your Diet
When you’ve lost permanent teeth, it can sometimes be difficult to enjoy the foods you normally love. Anything tougher in texture, like steak or other lean proteins, crunchy vegetables, protein-packed nuts, and fresh fruits can be harder to break down, so you may naturally avoid them, leading to malnutrition. Worse yet, because you can’t properly chew, you may even suffer from digestive issues like GERD or acid reflux. The good news is that with dental implants, you can not only replace your missing teeth, but when you do, you’ll also regain full biteforce, so you can once again enjoy all the tough, abrasive foods you may have had to avoid with gaps in your grin!
They Won’t Slip or Slide
If you’ve been getting by with dentures, you likely already know that although these prosthetics were designed to stay in place in your mouth while you eat and speak, sometimes they can shift or lose their fit. This can be especially embarrassing if it happens mid-meal, or especially mid-sentence. The good news is that dental implants are surgically attached to your jawbone, so they won’t come loose due to your diet, or because you laughed too hard. Not only that, but because you won’t need to remove them for cleaning or overnight for soaking, nobody will ever need to know you have “false” teeth unless you want them to!
They Can Clarify Your Speech
Your teeth do more than just chew food. They also act as a helper for your tongue when speaking. This allows you to pronounce certain words and sounds properly, so you can effectively communicate with those around you. Unfortunately, even missing one permanent tooth can make your speech sound slurred, or give you a lisp or other impediment that makes it embarrassing to converse with others. This can create feelings of isolation, withdrawal, and sadness, and may even lead you to avoid social interactions altogether. With dental implants, however, you can replace those missing teeth so your tongue can access the proper spots to form words correctly and avoid embarrassment. They may even encourage you to get back out there and start socializing again!
They Can Improve Your Confidence
Finally, although it’s easy to see how dental implants can improve your oral and overall health, they can even boost your mental health, too! That’s because restoring your healthy, beautiful smile with dental implants can do wonders for your self-esteem, giving you the confidence to make that big sale, nail that presentation, or even secure that big promotion you deserve!
Remember, durable, lifelike dental implants are the world’s only permanent tooth replacement solution. These strong, beautiful restorations can improve your oral health by preventing tooth drift and further tooth loss, but they also have a variety of incredible benefits that go way beyond your mouth. To learn more about dental implants and see if you qualify for treatment, schedule a consultation with your dentist today.
About Our Practice
At Kemper Meadow Family Dentistry, our trio of caring and talented dentists want to help restore your gorgeous, glowing grin with durable, dynamic dental implants! Whether you’re missing just one tooth or an entire arch, these permanent, lifelike prosthetics can restore your smile for a lifetime. To learn more about this amazing treatment and see how it can improve your self-confidence and quality of life, visit our website or call us today at 513-648-9900 to schedule a consultation.