4 Great Cosmetic Benefits of Dental Implants

You may already know dental implants have health benefits. After all, they aren’t like dentures or bridges – they fuse with your jaw and prevent various oral issues. Still, these restorations do more than keep their surroundings healthy. There are actually several cosmetic benefits of dental implants. Indeed, treatment will make your face look far better than ever. If you’d like to learn more, your local Denton dentist is happy to explain. Here are four aesthetic upsides to getting dental implants.

A Full, Lifelike Smile

Even if they fuse with the jaw, you may worry implants won’t look great. “Perhaps,” you think, “treatment will make my smile seem unnatural.” Truthfully, though, there’s no real cause for concern. Implants’ features ensure they look truly gorgeous and blend seamlessly with surrounding teeth.

You see, each implant is custom-made for an individual’s mouth. That means a dentist will shape, color, and shade it to match adjacent teeth. (This customization is possible thanks to an implant’s being covered with a porcelain crown.) As a result, your friends and family won’t even notice the implant unless you tell them about it.

A Younger Face

When you get dentures or bridges, your face will start to sag over time. Losing teeth means your jawbone lacks the stimulus to maintain itself. Consequently, your jaw will shrink until you undergo facial collapse, which drastically ages your looks.

Fortunately, dental implants both reverse and prevent facial collapse. They act as substitute teeth that stimulate the jawbone, preserving its bone tissue. As such, your face will stay firm and full-looking instead of saggy.

Fixed Stability

While dentures and bridges can look lifelike, they often slip or fall over time. These shifts can occur at the worst times, too, especially during conversations and meals.  The overall effect is to create awkwardness in social settings.

Your implants, of course, won’t suffer from this issue. By fusing with the jawbone, they remain stable over time and don’t slip or fall. This feature means you can trust the restorations to help you eat and speak. The resulting lack of slippage will then add to your appearance.

Boosted Confidence

It’s easy to become anxious when you lose teeth. Because you see the smile gaps in the mirror, your body image can diminish even as your anxiety rises. From there, you may feel too nervous to interact confidently with friends or family.

Implants handily fix this confidence problem. By restoring your full smile, they let you feel more at ease and strongly boost your self-image. You’d then be able to speak confidently with friends, family, and others.

The cosmetic benefits of dental implants aren’t trivial. When you tally up the ones above, you see that treatment will make your grin gorgeous and functional.

About the Practice

Aguilar Family Dentistry is based in Denton, TX. Led by Dr. Jonathan Aguilar, our practice strives to give each patient the best smile possible. To that end, we offer preventive, cosmetic, and restorative work, as well as emergency dental services. Our office also takes pride in being a certified provider of Invisalign clear aligners. For more information or to book a visit, you can reach us at our website or by phone at (940)-566-5332.