It never pays to neglect the care of your teeth. Poor oral hygiene habits in your youth can have serious consequences later in life. Your teeth will be more susceptible to decay, tooth infections, and periodontal disease, leading to premature tooth loss. Once permanent natural teeth are lost, they’re gone forever. You can, however, reconstruct your smile with dental implants. For many people, dental implant prosthetics offer the next best thing to having natural teeth. If you live in Costa Mesa, California, or nearby communities, you can come to Smiles4OC for implant treatment.

How Implants Differ from Other Restorative Treatments

Modern dentistry provides you with numerous options for replacing lost teeth. Partial dentures and dental bridges offer a practical solution to replace two or more consecutive missing teeth. Full dentures can replace all of your teeth if they must be removed due to periodontal disease.

None of these treatments, however, are as effective as implants because implants replace lost teeth and their roots to function more like natural teeth. Implants can replace one missing tooth, multiple teeth, or all your teeth to restore your smile naturally.

If you’re replacing one or more teeth individually, Dr. Thomas Rolfes will surgically embed an implant into your jaw for every missing tooth. Over the next few months, the implant will fuse with your bone system to act like a tooth root. Once it’s healed, we’ll place a dental crown on top to serve as your new tooth.

To replace an entire arch or all of your teeth, we can use the all-on-4 (or all-on-6) dental implant system to support a set of custom-designed prosthetics for your use. Either way, implants become a permanent part of your bone structure to replace lost teeth permanently.

Restorative Properties of Implants

No other prosthetic can match the appeal of implants when it comes to appearance. Dr. Rolfes can customize your replacement teeth to match the color, size, and shape of your natural teeth or the contour of your mouth to give you an attractive, functional, and pleasing smile.

Implants look like real teeth and act and feel like the “real deal” as well. 

When you reconstruct your smile with implants, you can look forward to the following:

• Strong, durable replacement teeth that offer a lifetime of quality use. Your crown or prosthetic arch may need replacing after 10-15 years, but your implants can last a lifetime with proper care.
• Secure, stable replacement teeth that won’t slip, wobble or shift around when you talk, laugh or eat.
• Prosthetics stimulate jawbone growth, just like real teeth, to keep your face and jaw from sagging.
• Replacement teeth that support tooth alignment to retain your natural bite and keep natural teeth from shifting

Dental Reconstruction Near Me in Costa Mesa, CA

For the best that restorative dental treatments have to offer in replacing lost teeth, you can’t go wrong with dental implant prosthetics. To schedule a consultation for dental implant reconstruction in Costa Mesa, CA, contact Dr. Thomas Rolfes from Smiles4OC at (714) 557-0700. 

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