Tooth loss is a sad event with potentially dire consequences, including bone recession, impaired biting, chewing and digestion and poor self-image. To avoid these problems, Dr. Kristine Houck Morris offers innovative dental implant solutions for qualified Easton, MD, patients. Regain your oral health with these marvelous tooth replacements.
It's just a tooth...
But, really, each and every tooth in your mouth serves a unique structural, functional and aesthetic purpose. Remove one, and the others shift and weaken, and you simply cannot smile, eat or speak as you should. Lose more teeth, and the trouble escalates, making you look and feel much older than you are.
Enter: modern tooth replacements
Dental implants are today's preferred prosthetic teeth. Composed of a titanium screw, metal abutment post and porcelain crown, a single dental implant fully replaces a tooth from root to crown. Plus, because the root is made from biocompatible titanium, you're assured of a stable, strong tooth that appears, acts and feels just like the one you lost.
The secret to success
For the dental implant, it's osseointegration. Through osseointegration, the human body is attracted to the titanium in the implant device, literally wrapping jaw bone cells around the implant.
While this takes many weeks to accomplish, in the end, you have a root that readily accepts the loading forces of biting and chewing. Conventional tooth replacements are fine as far as they go, but dental implants provide a superior and decades-long replacement solution.
Other benefits of dental implants
1. Dr. Houck Morris does the entire dental implant procedure--from qualifying exam and imaging to device placement and restoration--right in her Easton, MD, office.
2. Getting an implant is comfortable, requiring no more local anesthetic than a filling or root canal procedure.
3. Most healthy adults and teens can receive dental implants. You just need sufficient jaw bone structure to support the devices. If your bone is weak, a graft can build up its strength and size.
4. Implants last for decades--even a lifetime, reports the Institute for Dental Implant Awareness (IDIA).
5. Dental implants support your remaining teeth, preventing additional tooth loss and bone recession. As such, you retain a more youthful facial appearance and good oral function.
6. One, two or more implants may anchor bridgework or even full dentures, giving patients secure, complete and attractive smiles that are easy to care for.
Find out more
In Easton, MD, the dentist to see about dental implants is Dr. Kristine Houck Morris. For additional information and to arrange your consultation, please call us at (410) 770-9211.