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Dental implants are a groundbreaking way to restore your smile. If you’re missing teeth due to damage or decay, your daily activities like eating, drinking, and socializing can be awkward and uncomfortable. Dental implants don’t only look great, which raises your confidence, but they also preserve your oral health by holding proper tooth positioning and stimulating healthy jawbone growth.
Your Smile Mirrors Your Health
Your overall health is closely linked to your oral health. That means that conditions that damage your smiles such as gum disease and tooth loss will adversely affect your entire body. Dr. Herrmann practices holistic dentistry, which recognizes and acts according to the correlation between oral health and the health of your body.
Inversely, any conditions that hinder your health—mainly your immune system—will have negative consequences on your smile. The reasoning here is because a weakened immune system will increase your risk of dental diseases, such as tooth decay.
The Effects of Ignoring Missing Teeth
Teeth in a healthy smile brace each other. That means if you’re missing even one tooth, your gums, jawbone, and natural teeth are threatened. You should see Dr. Herrmann in Miami, FL as soon as possible if you’re missing a tooth or if you think you’ll lose one soon. He will discuss your treatment options and find a solution that best fits your needs.
At Assure a Smile, we understand the impact that tooth loss has on your everyday life and make treatment quick, simple, and stress-free. Thanks to supplemental procedures and dental implants, we can treat an assortment of dental issues such as:
- Difficulty speaking: When you talk, your teeth are a significant contributor to the sound that is produced. If you’re missing one or more teeth, speech can be difficult.
- Gum disease: Redness, swelling, and bleeding of the gums that is caused by infection.
- Jawbone depletion: The moment you lose a tooth, your jawbone begins to dissolve.
- Additional tooth loss: Gaps in your smile left by missing teeth allow your natural teeth to slide and shift around. This can accelerate gum disease and even lead to more lost teeth.
Tooth Loss & Periodontal Disease
In a healthy mouth, each tooth serves as a placeholder, preventing teeth from shifting and moving. If even one of those placeholders is lost, it can weaken the integrity of your entire smile. A tooth that shifts out of place can contribute to gum disease in two ways:
- Your gums can become irritated and inflamed, and thus more susceptible to infection.
- Plaque can grow in the spaces where the tooth has moved—the bacteria that causes gum disease lives by eating plaque.
Get The Help You Deserve
If you are missing one tooth or multiple, contact our office at 305-274-0047 to schedule a consultation with Dr. Herrmann today. He will decide what treatment(s) are right for your situation and make sure you get the care your smile needs. Additionally, you can fill out the submission form, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
