Up
Poznyaky
Hour Help *
Lukyanovskaya
Solomenka

How dangerous is a long absence of teeth?

How dangerous is a long absence of teeth?

A very large percentage of patients are faced with the need to extract teeth. Irregular visits to the dentist, injuries, treatment errors by an unqualified specialist, and much more, are the main causes of tooth loss.

The most common causes of tooth loss:

  • Periodontal disease. These can be inflammatory processes in periodontal tissues, various infections that can be caused by untreated pulpitis in time. Also, such processes can occur as a result of poor-quality and dishonest filling of tooth canals.
  • Advanced stages of caries. Tooth decay is one of the most common causes of tooth loss. Caries can rapidly destroy tooth tissue, damaging the nerve. In order to prevent caries, it is very important to carry out high-quality and regular home hygiene, not to ignore preventive examinations at the dentist, to carry out professional cleaning of the oral cavity by a specialist once every 6 months and not to neglect a timely visit.
The most common causes of tooth loss:
  • Mechanical injuries. Unfortunately, there are often situations when the patient does not notice the resulting damage to the tooth after an impact (trauma). For example, a fracture of a tooth root may not give any signals for a long time, but after a certain time it will still make itself felt, because over time a significant infection has already formed in the tissues. Therefore, it is important to be examined after any injury. Follow this.
  • Diseases that are associated with metabolic problems in the body. The health of our entire body is fully reflected and affects the health of the teeth. In many diseases, the exchange of calcium and potassium is often disturbed, as a result, the tooth tissues are destroyed, loosened, weakened and fall out. Therefore, in order to prevent such an outcome, it is important to monitor the overall health of the body.
  • Insufficient and poor-quality care of teeth and oral cavity. According to world statistics, most people brush their teeth incorrectly. That is, not enough time, they brush their teeth with a brush of inappropriate stiffness, do not use dental floss and brushes, make incorrect and traumatic movements with a brush, and so on. In order to work out and correct this moment, you need to contact a therapist, periodontist or hygienist - a specialist will show and tell you how to perform home hygiene and competently select for you individually hygiene products for your teeth and oral cavity.
  • Disturbed malnutrition and lifestyle (eg smoking). Excessive consumption of sweet foods, the contrast between hot and cold, drinking alcohol adversely affects dental health. Smoking also leads to dental problems. Therefore, if you have such habits in your life, it is recommended to get rid of them if you wish to have healthy teeth and avoid further tooth loss.

The most common and most common mistake of patients after the extraction or loss of teeth is that they are in no hurry to restore the resulting defect, while being unaware of its negative consequences. Most people think in this way: “no tooth, no problems”, but this is a fundamentally wrong approach, which can incur significant complications. Let's take a closer look at each nuance of this topic.

The biggest and most compelling “why” is the importance of restoring your chewing activity. Do not forget that teeth are not just a beautiful smile, they are also a function - providing nutrition. Read more about the functionality and aesthetics of our teeth

There are several important reasons why you need to restore chewing efficiency as quickly as possible:

  • Problems with digestion. With a long absence of chewing teeth, food is crushed poorly and is not sufficiently saturated with saliva. Therefore, the stomach has to produce more hydrochloric acid, which increases the risk of gastritis. That is, the absence of teeth will incur the result of not only the absence of an unaesthetic smile, but also serious problems with the body as a whole. If external issues are not so important for you, think a little more broadly: do you still need additional health problems?
  • Increased load on adjacent teeth. If the patient does not restore lost teeth for a long time, the load on the dentition will be unevenly distributed. As a result, the abrasion of enamel will increase and the risk of caries will increase. In such patients, the teeth are destroyed very quickly. The point is that the problem of already lost / lost teeth will spread to other (still) healthy dental units. But soon this issue will also be on your agenda, so it is so important not to abuse the long absence of teeth.
There are several important reasons why you need to restore chewing efficiency as quickly as possible:
  • Development of dental complications. Neighboring teeth are a support for each other, and when at least one tooth disappears, the dentition gradually begins to shift. Not just for orthodontic treatment extraction of the 8th teeth is recommended, because they need space and space to move. There is a similar principle, only the question is the right and wrong movement. With a long absence of lost teeth, the rest become mobile, gaps form between them, in which food debris and bacteria accumulate. This leads to a change in bite and an increased risk of developing diseases such as periodontitis, gingivitis, stomatitis, etc.
  • Bone tissues atrophy. Uneven chewing load leads over time to bone tissue atrophy, that is, its volume becomes insufficient for implant placement. Therefore, it is necessary to apply complex and rather expensive methods of bone grafting, such as sinus lift. This aspect suggests that it is desirable to carry out implantation in a timely manner, because the more the tooth is missing, the more difficult and problematic it will be to install the implant in the future. Of course, it is possible and will be real in any case, but the moment with the missing bone tissue will have to be addressed.
  • Aesthetics. In the absence of the frontal group of teeth, speech suffers, diction is disturbed, and the appearance of the patient also changes. The dentition is a support for the soft tissues of the face. When teeth are missing for a long time, sagging or “fallen” cheeks appear, facial asymmetry, mimic wrinkles appear, and facial features generally change. All this leads to psychological problems, isolation, self-doubt, fear of appearing in public, lack of desire to smile, laugh and rejoice. The longer the defect exists, the more pronounced these problems are.

Based on this, the issue of a long absence of teeth should be taken responsibly, seriously and with understanding. After all, as we have determined, missing teeth over a long period of time affect many areas of our life, affect it entirely and can bring additional health problems.

A timely visit to a specialist for examination and consultation will help you with this. We remind you that the consultation and examination with our implantologists and orthopedists is free of charge, so do not hesitate and take advantage of this opportunity! A specialist from the Sa-Nata clinic network will study your clinical situation in detail and carefully and select competent and effective solutions!

The absence of dental units in modern dentistry is solved by prosthetics on removable / non-removable structures and, of course, by installing an implant. The type of prosthetics that suits your individual case is selected professionally with a specialist based on the results of the diagnosis and general examination. A comprehensive individual approach to each patient in the network of clinics "Sa-Nata" allows you to study the situation from all its existing sides, to choose the best solutions, based on the experience and knowledge of dentists of various specializations in the field of modern dentistry.

The Sa-Nata team employs the best doctors - experienced and qualified specialists, who have thousands of successful operations and happy smiles on their account! The problem of a missing tooth can overtake anyone, but if you find yourself in the network of “Sa-Nata” clinics, then you are in good hands!

Share