Permanent teeth are the last teeth on the jaw. If lost for unexpected reasons, no other teeth will grow to replace it. So is there any danger in losing permanent teeth but not replanting them? And how to fix it? Let’s find out through the article below!
1. Common causes of tooth loss
Each tooth on the jaw plays a different role. If incisors are used for biting and canines are used for tearing, molars are responsible for crushing all food before entering the body. This means that teeth all have the task of supporting each other, so missing one of them is impossible.
However, tooth loss is a completely unavoidable condition due to many different reasons such as:
- Regularly eating sweets and drinking sweets but having poor oral hygiene, not using dental floss and supplementary mouthwash will easily cause problems. oral diseases such as tooth decay, gingivitis, periodontitis… When you have dental diseases but do not detect and treat them early, the disease will become worse, tooth loss is a condition that will happen sooner or later.
- Fracturing teeth, losing teeth due to injury or accident at work, participating in traffic or playing sports is something that can easily happen to anyone in every day life. day. Especially when playing sports, just one attack on the face with great force will make the opponent vulnerable to damage to the maxillofacial area. Therefore, it is necessary to wear a tooth protector when playing sports to protect your teeth well.
- Tooth loss also originates from bad habits such as using teeth to bite, chew or open hard objects such as ice, bottle caps, etc. Because although the tooth structure is hard, if it is continuously subjected to force, after a while, cracks will begin to appear on the surface. Over time, teeth will be chipped, broken, or even broken or lost.
- Age also affects tooth loss. Osteoporosis in older people causes bones to become porous and brittle. At the same time, the elderly’s resistance is also weaker, no longer able to fight harmful bacteria like before, so they are susceptible to dental diseases or bad complications leading to tooth loss if not taken care of carefully.
2. Serious effects of tooth loss
Tooth loss comes from many different causes. Whatever the cause, it causes many health consequences. However, not everyone is aware of this problem. Many people are even indifferent, seeing it as understandablein life and don’t want to fix it for fear of cost. Or some others still don’t really understand the horror of losing teeth.
In fact, tooth loss not only makes the teeth look less aesthetic but also causes many other serious consequences, affecting the patient’s health and quality of life. Specifically:
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Affects the digestive system
Teeth are the tools responsible for biting and crushing food before entering the body. If you lose teeth, food that is not crushed when entering the stomach will cause indigestion. At this time, the digestive system is forced to secrete more gastric juice and contract more to be able to metabolize and absorb all nutrients.
Working at full capacity and continuously will cause the stomach to overload; thereby causing stomach pain, colitis… These diseases not only make the patient always feel pain and discomfort in the abdomen, but over time also weaken the body due to nutrients not being fully absorbed or creating a feeling of loss of appetite, making the patient always tired and no longer want to eat or drink anything.
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Premature aging of the face
When teeth are lost, the chewing force in that area will gradually weaken. When there is no more force to impact and stimulate the jaw bone, after a while the jaw bone will disappear. If many teeth are lost in the same location and not treated early, it will cause the cheeks to become sunken and the skin around the mouth to wrinkle and sag. This leads to premature aging, the face looks older than its age.
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Misalignment of the remaining teeth
When a tooth is lost and If not restored, after a period of time the surrounding teeth will tend to tilt and shift toward the missing tooth space. At the same time, the tooth opposite the missing tooth loses its support and will gradually bud up. As a result, it will hinder chewing activities due to misaligned bite and cause a number of other diseases such as temporomandibular dysfunction, jaw pain, jaw fatigue…
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Loss of facial aesthetics
If teeth are lost in the inner molars, the person who loses teeth at first will not notice a major aesthetic impact. However, when teeth are lost for a long time, the surrounding teeth tend to drift into the empty position, causing the face to skew toward the missing teeth, causing loss of aesthetics.
As for the caseIf the front teeth have a large gap in the mouth, the patient will feel shy and lose confidence when communicating. From there, it seriously affects life and work.
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Inaccurate pronunciation
Losing teeth, especially front teeth, will lead to poor pronunciation. inaccurate, easy to lisp, hindering foreign language learning.
3. 3 common solutions for tooth loss
From the scary consequences that tooth loss brings, it is necessary to fix it early to prevent and protect your health.
Currently, in the market for replacing lost teeth, there are three methods that are considered the most popular, receiving the attention of a large number of patients. That is:
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Removable denture is a method of replacing many lost molars with a denture with a jaw base (or jaw frame) made of flexible plastic, pale pink in color like the gums and the porcelain tooth on top, fixed with clasps made from Titanium. |
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Ceramic dental bridge is a fixed dental implant solution, used to replace one or more missing teeth. Porcelain dental bridges are made by grinding 2 adjacent teeth to make posts, then using a series of porcelain bridges consisting of many porcelain teeth crafted together, tightly attached to the supporting cement posts in dentistry. |
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Advantages Better chewing ability than removable jaws Aesthetics almost like teeth real Cleaning is as easy as usual thanks to fixed teeth Prevents teeth from running when there is a gap |
Disadvantages Two adjacent teeth must be ground down to bridge the porcelain The two teeth next to the missing tooth must be healthy and strong Cannot prevent jaw bone loss and gum recession Use time is only about 7 – 10 years The cost is relatively high compared to removable jaws |
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Dental Implant is a solution to help restore one or more lost teeth on the jaw using tooth roots. artificial for replacement. |
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Advantages Independent tooth implantation, does not invade adjacent teeth Prevents bone loss, so the mirrorAvoid premature aging Suitable for treating all cases of tooth loss Materials are extremely safe and benign to the body The chewing ability and aesthetics are equivalent to real teeth Cleaned like real teeth because it is a fixed dental implant Save costs because it is only planted once but it can be used for life |
Disadvantages Patients must meet health requirements before undergoing dental implants. |
Of the 3 forms of restoring missing teeth above, dental implants are considered the most optimal solution today, overcoming most of them. The disadvantages of the remaining two methods are removable dentures and porcelain bridges.
4. Dental Implants – Done once and use for life
Implants are the most superior solution for replacing missing teeth today with many outstanding advantages, most notably the ability to prevent jaw bone loss. At the same time, this is also a solution that can effectively and safely fix many types of missing teeth such as losing one tooth, two teeth, many teeth or the entire jaw.
This solution is done by placing a Titanium pillar into the jawbone to replace the tooth root; Then use a porcelain crown with the same shape and color as a real tooth to cover the implant. Once completed, we will have a complete tooth with full crown and root.
Losing teeth is something no one wants. It not only affects facial aesthetics and distorts your smile, but it is also harmful to your health. So, if that unfortunate thing happens to you, don’t ignore it and find a solution as soon as possible to avoid future consequences for your health.
Please contact us immediately to learn about this latest dental implant solution!
