Show your smile you care

Losing a tooth, or teeth, can be incredibly difficult and present you with a wide array of challenges both socially and in regards to your oral or general health – which is why we strongly advise anyone who has lost either a single or several teeth to get in contact with us here at Farnham Road Dental Practice and speak with one of our professionals about dental implants in Guildford. Adult teeth do not grow back, and are intended to last a lifetime – granted, however, accidents do happen and losses can occur for a number of reasons such as neglect, injury or natural ageing.

Rather than having to live the rest of your life with visible gaps in your teeth, or choosing cheaper alternative solutions like dental bridges, getting implants from us here at Farnham Road Dental Practice is a permanent and hugely effective solution that can completely restore both the way your smile looks and the amount you use it.

Why choose dental implants?

Your teeth and smile play a far more important role than you may first imagine. From steering all social interactions to the very shape and structure of your face, your teeth are hugely significant to how you look, speak and feel.

This is why when you lose a tooth or teeth the implications that this can have are massive – especially if the gap is left untreated for a significant length of time – and why choosing dental implants in Guildford is the best option in the long term. One of the most drastic implications of having a missing space in your mouth for a long period of time is a loss in facial bone density – which contributes to the way your face is shaped.

This happens when the area around a missing tooth remains inactive for some time, and the bone tissue is eventually absorbed by your body, resulting in a loss of your facial bone structure which can often make you appear older than you are. Another common problem that anyone who has an untreated gap in their smile may be faced with over time is a loss in your speech ability, or difficulty eating tough foods – both of which can impact your social life and cause embarrassment.

What makes implants special?

While the dental implants in Guildford which we offer here at Farnham Road Dental Practice are certainly not the only available solution for lost teeth – as options such as crowns, dentures and dental bridges have existed for years – they are however the only permanent solution for lost teeth you are likely to find.

The reason that dental implants are set apart from other options as a permanent solution is that they are surgically embedded inside a patient’s jawbone through a complex dental surgery procedure which is carried out here at Farnham Road Dental Practice. This surgery involves exposing the patient’s gums and jaw bone and making a small hole into their jawbone, into which a titanium-alloy tooth socket is placed.

This socket will then naturally merge itself together with the patient’s jawbone, resulting in it being permanently fixed in position. When this has happened the socket can then be utilised as a fixing point for a new denture to be attached – similarly to how a natural tooth is fixed.