If you’ve lost one or more teeth through decay, gum disease, mouth cancer or as a result of traumatic injury, it can affect your quality of life in many ways.
If the teeth are not replaced it can make it difficult to eat and speak. Changes in your appearance cause you to age prematurely. Confidence, self-esteem and social outings can wither.
The good news is that dental implants can solve all your problems in ways you have only dreamed of.
Dental implants are artificial roots, usually made from titanium, with a crown, bridge or denture attached. They behave just like normal teeth, restoring the function of your teeth and the way you look. Enriching and enhancing your happiness and well being.
In this article, we explore some of the many ways in which dental implants will improve your life.
Table Of Contents
1 – Restore your Incredible Smile
There is a stigma attached to having a missing tooth and it really affects your appearance, especially when it’s at the front. Let’s face it, it looks a bit odd when an adult talks or smiles when they have a gap at the front of their mouth.
It causes those with a missing tooth to hide their smile and limit talking in public. Due to embarrassment and shame, many avoid social occasions altogether.
Dental implants restore your dazzling smile. They look completely normal. You can smile with joy, jump with delight in front of the camera and happily chatter away to the masses with enthusiasm. You can become a social butterfly once again!
2 – Live Without Pain
When you have a missing tooth or two on one side it alters how you chew. People often chew on the other side of the mouth. The jaw muscles are not used equally.
This can lead to pain when chewing and a condition called temporomandibular joint disorders or TMJ. Ongoing pain has a detrimental effect on almost every aspect of an individual’s life.
With dental implants, you will chew on both sides equally, preventing a life with permanent pain in the mouth.
3 – Stay Wrinkle Free For Longer
The teeth help to fill out the skin around the mouth and cheeks. When teeth are missing the skin becomes saggy and can lead to the appearance of wrinkles.
Missing teeth also causes changes in the muscles around the lips, leading to even more wrinkles.
The more wrinkles you have, the older you look.
Dental Implants support the skin, helping to keep you wrinkle-free for longer.
4 – Eat what you Want
It can be really challenging to eat some fruits and vegetables, lean meats, nuts or chewy sweets when you have missing teeth or dentures. These foods are required for a healthy diet. Without a wholesome balanced diet quality of life may be limited.
Dental implants allow you to eat any food you fancy, meaning you can eat your favourite food, consume a healthier diet and have a better quality of life.
5- Speak Without Slurring
The teeth are essential for the articulation of certain sounds. Some words become distorted when teeth are missing. It can lead to hissing, slurring, lisping and spitting when you talk.
Those with dentures often clack when they talk.
Individuals with these issues avoid social outings and it can prevent them from performing their job. It negatively affects their life.
Dental implants allow you to talk normally without clacking, hissing and lisping. They allow you to live a life where you’re not embarrassed to talk.
6 – Beat the Bloat and Stay Healthy
The teeth play a huge part in the digestion of food. Without teeth, it’s hard to chew food easily.
Enzymes are produced when food is digested. When food is swallowed without adequate chewing, the enzymes can’t break food down fully. This can stop nutrients and energy from being released from the food.
Other parts of the digestive system have to work harder and it can lead to digestive issues such as bloating.
Dental implants allow you to chew food properly and break it down into small parts, and get the maximum amount of nutrients and energy from the food. You will have more energy and you’ll be healthier as your body reaps the benefits of getting the full amount of nutrients from the food you eat.
Dental Implants Will Change your Life for the Better
If you are living with the challenges that tooth loss creates, you can change your life for the better with dental implants. Become content with your appearance and find your confidence again.
Smile Stories are an implant clinic providing dental implants in Bournemouth.
