9801 Dupont Ave. South | Suite 400 | Bloomington, MN 55431
Phone 952-888-2300 | 866-856-3774

Implant Restorations

Losing teeth can cause a lot of inconvenience. In addition to having your appearance disrupted by dentures or gaps in your mouth, it's obviously more difficult to chew. You're also probably aware of the discomfort of wearing dentures and the inconvenience of caring for them, but one problem that you may not be aware of is that your jawbone can deteriorate in places where you have lost teeth. That's because the bone in your jaw needs to be subjected to the pressure of chewing in order to maintain itself. For all of these reasons, a longer term solution to missing teeth makes a lot of sense. Fortunately, Smiles For Life can provide that solution in the form of dental implants!

Dental implants are precisely engineered pieces of metal that are set into your jawbone to serve as anchors for crowns, dentures, or bridges. Since dental implants will connect crowns directly to your jawbone, they have distinct advantages over conventional bridges, removable dentures, or leaving empty spaces in your mouth. For example, when bridges are anchored to your existing teeth, they won't exert any pressure on the jawbone beneath when you chew. In addition to being unnecessarily fragile, this means that the bridges will allow the jawbone underneath them to go unused and degrade! Dental implants counter this problem by evenly distributing the pressure of chewing across the jawbone, while providing a more solid foundation for the bridges!

In addition to being healthier, dental implants will also be easier to care for than the alternatives. Unlike your natural teeth, you won't get cavities in your implants, and caring for them is much easier than caring for dentures. After all, crowns and bridges that are mounted on dental implants can be brushed just like natural teeth! Also, dental implants have the attractive feature of a very impressive success rate of up to 95% over the course of 5 years!

Call us today at 952-888-2300 and set up a consultation with our doctors to see if dental implants are the right option for you!