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Multiple Missing Teeth

Patients we treat who have lost more than one tooth often wear dentures or partial dentures.

Common complaints include mouth discomfort and increased difficulty eating or speaking.

Did you know that if you wear dentures you have to eat soft foods for the rest of your life?

Loose dentures can affect your overall quality of life and cause many other serious oral health issues and complications.

These consequences often result in physiological and psychological issues.

As experts in restorative and implant dentistry, The Perfect Smile recommends dental implants to restore the mouth to a healthier state and improve function.

Call 01992 552115 to consider all your available options.

Advances in dentistry

1. Dental implants can easily replace multiple missing teeth, using just one implant that connects teeth. The strong titanium implant screws can support a bridge of up to four teeth (in a row). The best solution to replace missing teeth, the procedure is long-lasting and requires little maintenance. See All-on-Four.
2. Depending on the bone mass in the jaw bone (this can deteriorate quickly in the presence of missing teeth), implants can be implanted the same day or over a few months. Implants look, feel and operate exactly like regular teeth. See the benefits.
3. Implants require some healing time – this process is where the titanium screw fuses with the jawbone (this can take a few months). Once this short period is over, the dentist can then fit your new implants with a porcelain crown, which will be specially crafted to blend flawlessly with the remaining teeth.

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Ignoring gaps in the mouth

There are multiple oral health consequences and issues that occur due to having lost multiple teeth.

When gaps are left ignored, chances of the jaw bone receding grow, which results in your face appearing sunken.

On top of this, gum disease can form quickly, which will also erode bone and gum.

Overall issues include:

• Cosmetics: The aesthetics and cosmetic aspect of your smile can directly impact your confidence and well-being.
• Function: Your chewing ability can be affected in various ways depending upon which teeth are missing. If the spaces are left unrestored, the remaining teeth will have to take more pressure from chewing. The remaining teeth are under strain, which can lead to excessive tooth wear affecting structural integrity.
• Bone Resorption: When more teeth are missing, then bone augmentation and grafting procedures are often required. This is especially true when the missing teeth are alongside each other. Also, if the missing teeth are at the front of the mouth, it can be challenging to achieve the correct aesthetics if an excessive bone loss occurs. Bone and gum grafting procedures may be required. Learn more.

Teeth missing from the mouth can result in physiological and psychological issues. Read more on the effects of missing teeth here.

Comprehensive Treatment Planning is Critically Important

It is important to note that proper attentive planning at the initial stages is critical when replacing multiple teeth.

There are essential aspects to consider and integrate into the final plan, such as correct, harmonious and stable bite and proper structural integrity of all the teeth.

A comprehensive assessment followed by detailed treatment planning will ensure the longevity of the resulting treatment with dental implants.

We work together with any referring dentist so that you can achieve a result that is both aesthetic and functional.

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We work with your dentist.

We are able to collaborate with your current dental practice.

At The Perfect Smile, we often refer patients to complete cosmetic and restorative work their current dentists cannot perform.

So any patient referred to us for the implant treatment will be directed back to their dentist to complete the vital aspect of the implant.

It is essential, especially during treatment planning, that both dentist and implantologist fully understand the aims of the treatment so that the appropriate selection of implant system.

Treatment Solutions for Multiple Missing Teeth

Implant-Supported Crown

If single teeth are missing from different parts of the mouth and your natural teeth in between, then the dentist may advise you to have a single dental implant in those areas supporting a single crown.

Using single implants result in the neighbouring teeth not being overburdened.

Single implants are also helpful in cases where the neighbouring teeth are unsuitable for traditional dental bridges.

The treatment method allows you to have multiple missing teeth replaced around the mouth. Our dentists can do the surgical placing of all the implants at one time.

Implant-Supported Bridge

When several teeth are missing next to each other, then an implant-retained bridge is a great solution.

Implant support bridges are often the treatment of choice when your natural teeth on either side of the gap are not strong enough to support a traditional dental bridge.

Two or more implants can support and anchor a bridge of multiple artificial teeth.

The bridge is made of a metal alloy framework with porcelain to give both strength and aesthetics.

In a similar respect, an innovative technique called all-on-4 is used in cases where there are no teeth present.

A fixed prosthesis is placed on top of four implants strategically placed in the jawbone in this technique.

When choosing this treatment, they can use their new teeth typically 24 hours after surgery, and the patient does not have to wait for osseointegration to occur.

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