What causes a missing tooth? Dentist Çağatay Kavaz gave valuable information about the subject. Lack of teeth is one of the health problems that are often underestimated and lack of knowledge about the problems it will cause in the long run. While our patients try to quickly eliminate the missing tooth in the area that we call the aesthetic zone, which appears when laughing or talking, the same care may not be shown in the posterior area where we chew.
I view the missing tooth as the loss of a critical organ that is used at least 3 times a day. Gum diseases, dental caries, trauma..etc. I strongly recommend that our patients who have lost their teeth for various reasons should also take care of it!
What can happen to us in long-term missing teeth?
If the loss is unilateral, our patients always tend to chew with the non-lost side. In the long run, this will create tooth and gum problems due to the multi-function of the chewing side and the very passivity of the side with missing teeth. If the loss is bilateral and not resolved, our patients tend to chew with their bones. Unfortunately, this will mean new tooth loss due to the destruction of the bone in that area. Of course, every condition of missing teeth is a harbinger of advanced jaw joint disorders that the dentistry world has not been able to solve completely now!
The teeth adjacent to the toothless area are knocked down, and the opposite teeth are getting longer. These undesirable movements completely disrupt our chewing connections, while at the same time causing significant irreversible damage to the surrounding bone. Stomach problems are very common due to foods that have been swallowed for years without being completely ground. Yes, a problem that starts in the mouth is wreaking havoc on your stomach!
Our real teeth slip into the areas where there are missing teeth, and gaps are formed in the middle of the teeth. This results in new caries, dental plaque formation and bad breath due to nutrient accumulation!
If we try to explain all the damages caused by the lack of teeth, directly or indirectly, to our mouth and general health, we can write volumes of books. I think that even the parts I have mentioned here are enough to understand that this is an important problem.
So what is a test?
The analysis of missing teeth is bridge prostheses or dental implants. Since bridge prostheses are eroded on neighboring teeth and 3 or more teeth are designed in a combined manner, meaning to damage neighboring healthy teeth, implants are now our first choice.
Dental implants are titanium cuts that are painlessly placed in the jawbones under local anesthesia. These cuts will completely fuse with your bone after an average of 3 months and serve as your tooth root. After this process, they will eliminate both aesthetic and functional deficiencies with one or more porcelain teeth to be placed on them.
Dental implants, which were a treatment that was difficult to reach with their astonishing costs in the past, can be made at very affordable prices due to the technology and increased production in this field, as well as the competition created by hundreds of companies entering the global market again.
In order not to risk both your oral health and your physical health, I suggest you take care of your tooth deficiencies. While your teeth are your most valuable make-up in terms of aesthetics, they are the gateway to your body in terms of health. Let’s not forget that everything starts in the mouth!
