Health and Cosmetic Benefits of Dental Implants

You may be wondering why more and more dentists are advocating dental implants over traditional bridgework and dentures. Perhaps you’re baulking at the cost and wondering "What exactly will a dental implant do for me?"

Dental implants have several benefits you might not be aware of:

Dental Implants Restore your Taste

With a dental implant you can chew and swallow foods without pain or discomfort. In contrast, a full upper denture covers your palette and reduces your sense of taste. Replacing your upper denture with dental implants allows you to once again taste and enjoy your favorite foods.

Dental Implants Improve your Confidence

With ordinary dentures your jawbone shrinks and the denture slips out of place, sliding and wobbling in the mouth and causing great discomfort and pain. Your facial muscles struggle to hold the dentures in place, resulting in muscle stress, more pain, and slurred or mumbled speech. The shrinking jawbone muscles give you a lopsided smile and aged face.

Because dental implants are anchored in the jaw itself, they don’t move. Goodbye forever, gum irritation and muscle stress! You can smile, talk and sing naturally. Dental implants feel like your natural teeth.

Dental Implants Protect your Remaining Teeth

If a tooth is removed without replacement, it causes your other teeth to shift and plaque to gather in the gap. Over the years, the situation becomes worse and worse, and you could lose all your teeth. Replacing your lost tooth with a dental implant prevents your other teeth from meeting the same fate.

Dental Implants Improve your Sex Life

Research published in the Journal of Dentistry suggests that adults between the ages of 35-65 fitted with dental implants experience greater comfort during kissing and sexual activity. Other patients fitted with conventional dentures reported their dentures became loose during kissing, eating and speaking. (J. S. Feine, G Heydecke, M. Thomason, J P Lund, Journal of Dentistry, 7 Jan 2005).

Dental implants help you look good, feel confident and stay healthy. What better reasons could you have for considering a dental tooth implant?

Article by Steff Green Freelance Writer