Dental implants remain popular because of the variety of ways they rescue a patient's smile and ability to chew comfortably. When you are a candidate for implants, you can restore your smile with the strength and appearance of teeth that are just as good as the originals.
Dental implants have, throughout their history, been meant for the restoration of one's ability to replace and hold prosthetic and synthetic materials as teeth. Their use dates back to ancient civilizations because tooth damage and loss are not the product of recent times, and are not unique to public health or the dental care profession. However, these devices are sometimes confused with being inclusive with the crowns of the teeth that we see throughout a user's mouth. They are in fact the small titanium rods that are drilled into and attached to the jaw bone that support the prosthesis. This is a multi-step process that occurs over several weeks if not months, depending upon the condition of the patient's jaw and bone health overall. Once the rods are placed, doctors and patients have to wait in order for the bone to heal around the rod, which secures it in place. As you can imagine, this is not a simple or pain free process. Therefore, men and women do not undergo this procedure for lighthearted smile restoration. They undergo this procedure because of some degree of dental decay loss or traumatic injury loss.
A few of the traumas that can cause severe tooth damage or loss include: falls, car accidents, sports injury, or violence. On one hand, falls and car accidents range in severity of damage to the lower skull. They may knock one tooth clean out of the skull, loosen multiple teeth, or cause several cracked and lost teeth. Depending upon the height from which the man or woman fell or the velocity of the car crash, the jaw may have to be reconstructed and allowed to heal before dental implants are placed. The devices may also have to be supported with additional bone grafts and titanium in order to secure the rods and maintain prosthesis use for years to come.
Sports injuries present some of the most common catalysts for the use of dental implants. Sports injuries range from ball hits, strikes with equipment, and stumbles to the ground or flooring surfaces for the various sports. Dental implants to come to the rescue in these cases with the three step implantation process of inserting the rod, allowing the jaw bone to heal around it, then sending the patient to a prosthodontist for crown fitting, shading, and shaping not only for smile appearance throughout the mouth but for chewing as well - both are necessities.
Regardless of how a man or woman has come to lose his or her teeth, dental implants both historically and to this day are for tooth loss by surgical and forced means. Traumatic injury is how your tooth or teeth may have come out but a skilled surgeon can offer you titanium inserts that can give you good teeth as long as there is enough useable jaw bone to secure it within.
