There’s no getting round the fact that tooth loss is a horrible experience. Whether you had them one minute and lost them the next in a sporting injury or some kind of accident, or whether they’ve been failing for a quite a few years, once your teeth have gone, you are into a period of feeling lost without a vital body part and wondering how to replace it.
Thankfully, you no longer have to choose between two methods that both have drawbacks ie. dentures and bridges. For the last few decades, there has also been the choice to have dental implants in Harley Street. And here at Harley Street Dental Clinic, we are finding that dental implants in Harley Street are often the first choice for patients these days. And there’s a good reason for that, no tooth replacement method mimics natural teeth as well as dental implants.
Sturdy like natural teeth
One of the big complaints with other tooth replacement methods is that they just can’t cope with chewing really chewy things like steaks, or crunchy things like apples, but dental implants can because they are firmly anchored into the jawbone rather than relying on neighbouring teeth or adherence to the gums for stability.
Being anchored into the jawbone also means that dental implants in Harley Street aren’t ever going to start wobbling around and causing a great deal of embarrassment for their wearer.
Protecting the jawbone
Natural teeth provide a little-known service to the jawbone. The vibrations that come from their clacking together hundreds of times throughout the day, signals to the jawbone that it is in use and needed and this stimulates bone cell renewal. Without tooth roots to do this, the jawbone makes an assumption that it is no longer needed for chewing and starts to resorb, losing size and density rapidly. Dental implants in Harley Street take over the job of keeping the jawbone strong and dense, helping people avoid a look of premature ageing that comes with tooth loss.
Dental implants can last for at least 15 years, if not longer, with a simple maintenance regime to remove plaque.