Recovering from most common oral health concerns often means treating a tooth with a custom restoration in order to preserve its remaining healthy, natural structure. The ultimate goal is usually to help you prevent losing the tooth and improve its chances of avoiding any more trouble in the future. However, recovering from the loss of a tooth is different. Without any natural tooth structure remaining to restore, addressing the problem and restoring your smile will require replacing all of the lost tooth’s structure.

Restoring its healthy appearance

When it comes to replacing one or more lost teeth to restore your smile, there are several important goals your treatment must accomplish. The first and most noticeable of these is often restoring your smile’s healthy, natural appearance, especially if your lost tooth was highly visible whenever you speak or smile. The change in your smile’s appearance can have a substantial impact on your overall self-confidence, and many people choose to replace their lost teeth mostly to regain their smile’s healthy and more confident appearance.

Regaining your bite’s function

When you show off your smile, the appearance of it is one of its most obvious features. Yet, your teeth have several vital functions that make them much more important to your oral health than just filling out your smile. For example, your teeth are the most-often used parts of your body, and their health and integrity are important to them being able to perform as they’re supposed to each day. When you experience a tooth loss, it can have an increasingly more negative impact on your oral health and, particularly, your bite’s ability to function properly. Stopping this impact and restoring your bite’s proper function are among the most important goals that your replacement teeth are responsible for.

Reestablishing your smile’s foundation

When you bite and chew your food, the immediate functions of tearing and breaking it down are easier when your smile is whole. However, the action of biting and chewing is also an important function in preserving your smile’s foundation, which consists largely of your dental ridge. The roots of your teeth, which rest within the bone structure of this ridge, are responsible for stimulating your smile’s foundation when you bite and chew. This promotes the flow of minerals and nutrients that your dental ridge relies on to support itself and your teeth. For many people, this function can be reestablished with the help of one or more dental implants, which replicate the functions of healthy teeth roots and can be used to support a custom tooth replacement.

Recover from tooth loss with a custom restoration

Tooth loss can be devastating for your smile, but it can recover from it and its consequences with the right custom-designed dental restoration. To learn more, schedule a consultation by calling the Dental Centre of Conroe in Conroe, TX, today at (936) 441-4600.