Did you know that when your teeth fall out, the jawbone around where the tooth roots were starts to dissolve itself? Without the tiny vibrations that get transmitted into the jawbone via the teeth every time they clang together, the bone thinks it is no longer in use. Rather than let all that useful calcium go to waste, the bone cells resorb and send the calcium back into the bloodstream for use elsewhere.

In theory, you can’t fault the body for being good at not wasting stuff. In practice, what you end up with, in just a few short years, is a much smaller, less dense jaw and that pointy-chinned, sunken-faced look associated with premature old age.

This alone is one of the main reasons we at Broadway Dental Clinic recommend dental implants in Loughton. You will stay looking younger longer.

The advantages of dental implants

In Loughton, dental implants also give you back your freedom of choice around food, and your dignity. They do so by being permanently fixed into the jawbone, creating a firm, solid anchor for the crowns, which will be able to cope with more than enough chewing force to enjoy whatever you want to eat, from crunchy roast potatoes to a chewy steak. As well as this, crowns supported by dental implants are never going to take a life of their own and start wobbling around in your mouth like dentures can do, even if they were really well fitting when you first had them.

This wobble is a consequence of the shrinking jaw, which we talked about earlier in this article.

In Loughton, dental implants do carry a higher initial cost, but the good news is that, once they are integrated into the jawbone, they should stay in place for the rest of your life. So, if you are planning on being around for more than, say, the next few years, they are well worth the investment. Dentures and bridges only have a lifetime of 5–10 years, so when you are doing your cost comparisons, you need to factor in that you might need to pay for dentures and bridges several times over, whereas you will only have to pay for dental implants once.