Why Choose Dental Implants?

When it comes to replacing missing teeth and restoring your smile, you have a lot of options such as dental bridges, partial dentures, and full dentures, but no tooth replacement treatment option offers the myriad benefits of dental implants.  

Top 5 Reasons Why Dental Implants Are Superior to Other Tooth Replacement Options

1. Restore Your Smile and Quality of Life

Living with an incomplete smile can negatively impact your oral health. It can also affect your ability to speak naturally and enjoy all of the foods you love. This can impact your digestive system and general health in addition to taking a toll on your happiness and overall quality of life. Dental implants are an excellent option for restoring your smile to its complete form and full function so that you can smile freely, speak naturally, and enjoy any type of food you desire.  

2. Natural Form, Function, and Feeling

Dental implants are by far the most popular and widely recommended tooth replacement option because they are the most similar to a natural tooth. With a biocompatible metal anchor implanted directly in the jawbone, a dental implant tooth restoration is supported by a prosthetic root system. As a result, dental restorations supported by dental implants look, feel, and work just like natural teeth.  

With dental implants, there's no need to worry about biting into an apple or developing sores on your soft tissues as a result of friction from a poorly fitting dental prosthetic.  

3. Support Jawbone Health and the Health of Natural Teeth

Dental implants are the only tooth replacement option that provides direct stimulation to the jawbone. This stimulation is necessary for generating bone matter and maintaining the jawbone's strength, structure, and health.

Without dental implants, a patient's jawbone will deteriorate over time beneath the gaps where natural teeth used to be. This can harm the integrity of any natural teeth neighboring these gaps, as the teeth begin to shift out of place and their jawbone support begins to deteriorate.  

4. Preserve Your Appearance

As the jawbone deteriorates, it also impacts the physical appearance of a person's bone structure. Since dental implants maintain the strength and structure of the jawbone, they also prevent this deterioration from visibly changing your facial structure.  

5. Versatile Restoration Solutions

Dental implants offer a variety of versatile treatment options:

• Individual Tooth Replacement - Implants can be used along with dental crowns on a one-for-one basis to replace individual teeth.

• Consecutive Tooth Replacement - Dental implants can support a dental bridge to replace several consecutive missing teeth.  

• Multiple Tooth Replacement - Dental implants can support a partial denture to replace multiple missing teeth through the mouth.

• Full Mouth Reconstruction - Dental implants can support a full denture to replace one or both arches of teeth.

Experience the Loftus Difference with a Dentist in Rapid City

At Loftus Dental, we're proud to provide our patients with the highest caliber of comprehensive restorative and cosmetic dental care, including dental implants in Rapid City. Whether you need to replace one tooth or reconstruct your entire mouth, dental implants deliver superior treatment results that keep your jawbone healthy and look, feel, and work just like your natural teeth. With a full suite of implant dentistry, our dentists work with patients through the entire treatment process, from consultation through implantation to the final restoration placement.  

To learn more about dental implants and how they can restore your smile and quality of life, we welcome you to contact Loftus Dental in Rapid City to request a consultation with our experienced dentists today.

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