The loss of a tooth or a group of teeth can be harmful to a person’s dental health and catastrophic to his appearance. Oftentimes people are afraid to smile or do not smile at all because they wish to conceal a gap in their teeth. Furthermore, tooth loss can also result to other undesirable things such as oral infection, gum disease, and discomfort in eating. Fortunately, cosmetic dentistry offers a solution to this ordeal in the form of dental implants.

A dental implant is a synthetic tooth root which is placed into a person’s jaw for the replacement of the tooth or series of teeth. It presents an excellent choice to people who have suffered tooth loss because of injury, disease, or other similar reasons. The person who presides over the entire dental implant procedure is called a periodontist. Furthermore, dental implants can either be placed in the jaw bone or above the jaw bone. The former is the more regularly used type while the latter is given specially to patients with a short bone height.

There are several advantages offered by dental implants. First, a dental implant can replace teeth without having an effect on other surrounding teeth. Second, it can hold a bridge and can prevent the need to acquire removable partial dentures. Third, given that implants are made to be permanent, only one or two visits to the clinic is required for a lifetime of great teeth and smiles. The last advantage of a dental implant is its cosmetic value. It looks and feels so natural that more or less no one shall notice that they are there.