Rootz Dental Care and Implant Center: Missing teeth consequences

Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Missing teeth consequences

MISSING TEETH

Missing teeth can cause problems. Missing teeth directly affects your smile and esthetics of your face.

Consequences of missing teeth:

1) Speech - Teeth help us to produce sounds like f, v, s, z, ch, th, g. Missing teeth might make speaking difficulty.
Missing teeth affects the clear speech results in lack of confidence.

2) Unesthetic - Missing teeth results in missing confident smile.

3) Chewing - Missing teeth may cause trouble in chewing food. Improper chewing results in digestion problems.

4) Nutritional problems - Loss of balanced diet results in nutritional problems.

5) Adjacent teeth - Missing teeth results in drifting of adjacent teeth and supraeruption of the opposing teeth into that space.

6) Spacings - Drifting of adjacent teeth results in formation of spaces between the teeth.
Food lodgement increases followed by deposits formation and gum problem starts.

7) Dental cavities - Drifted teeth is difficult to clean & it leads to dental cavities.

8) Bone loss - Missing teeth results in resorption of the bone that supports the teeth.

9) TMJ problem - Biting won't be balanced if there is a missing teeth, this results in jaw joint problems and frequent headaches.

10) Loss of space for permanent teeth if there is premature loss of milk teeth in children.
In this case space maintainers to be given to preserve the space.

SPACE MAINTAINER PLACED TO PRESERVE THE SPACE FOR PERMANENT TEETH

CONCLUSION:

To minimize the possibility of these problems, your missing teeth should be replaced immediately.

MISSING TOOTH REPLACEMENT WITH IMPLANT

MISSING TOOTH REPLACEMENT WITH BRIDGE

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