With aging, we tend to lose our teeth gradually due tovarious oral health issues. It can affect our health as one cannot chew food properly due to lack of teeth.
Ingestion of improperly chewed food can cause various digestiveissues like·
- Indigestion·
- Constipation
- Protein/Vitamin Deficiencies or Overall Nutritional Deficiency
It can affect one’s health badly and can lead to rapid fall in body weight as well.As food is the basic necessity, not be able to eat properly can cause emotional and psychological disturbances. The person may feel irritable all the time.
Young individuals can also lose their teeth if they have certain dental problems like:-
DENTAL CARIES / CAVITIES- If one have the dental caries and doesn’t go for the treatment (filling/root canal treatment) at right time then the cariesmay cause the decay of whole tooth structure, which leads to loss of tooth.
PERIODONTAL DISEASES/ GUM HEALTH ISSUES-Periodontal tissue is a supporting tooth structure, Inflammation ofperiodontal tissue is known as periodontitis, periodontitis can cause the mobility of teeth and loss of surrounding bone structure, at advance stages teeth may fall.
PLACEMENT OF DENTAL IMPLANTS FOR MISSING TEETH
Dental implants are mostly made of titanium which is a very biocompatible material; it means it fuses with jaw bone easily. Dental implants mimic the function of natural teeth. It also prevent the loss of jaw bone structure which improve your looks as it gives support to sagging cheeks and give fuller and younger appearance to the face of elderly patient.
In young patients it prevents the unaesthetic look of face which is caused by loss of teeth.
HOW THE PROCEDURE IS DONE??
Patients are advised to have a 3D scan (CBCT scan),after the scan and a discussion the procedure is planned.
For medically unfit patients who have different co-morbidities special precaution is taken so as to all their physiological parameters should be normal before the surgery.
Generally the procedure is done, under local anesthesia by dental implantologist. Implants are placed in jaw bone through the surgical procedure.After the procedure pt. will be prescribed medication for infection control . This completes the whole surgical part.
After 3months in most of the cases and after 6 months in few cases where bone graft has been placed, it is checked with the x-ray if the implants have been integrated to bone properly or not.If the implant has been fused to bone then with few steps cap is made and fixed over dental implant.
This is the magic of implant dentistry where the dental implants are best choice of treatment for single to multiple missing teeth, be it a young patient or elderly.
HOW DENTAL IMPLANT HELPS IN IMPROVING HEALTH
With dental implant you can chew & have the variety of foods because dental implants are strong enough to withstand the chewing forces, when the properly chewed food incorporate with the saliva and goes into your gut it is digested properly and the gut lining is able to absorb the nutrients.this, in turn can improve your oral health to overall health.