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Everyone knows the basics of good dental care. Brush your teeth after every meal, floss every day, see your dentist at least twice a year. It sounds simple. But what if you still don’t have strong, healthy teeth? Weak enamel can be a genetic weakness, or it can be caused by other conditions, like Celiac disease. I’ve always had weak enamel, so I started looking into ways that I could increase the strength of my teeth, and found that dietary changes could make a big difference. I started this blog to share my experience, and to talk about other ways you can make your teeth stronger and healthier. There are lots of things that you can do to improve your dental health. You just have to find them.

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How Losing One Tooth Can Become A Chain Reaction

9 April 2018
 Categories: Dentist, Blog

Having a tooth pulled or even having one fall out can be quite upsetting. Unfortunately, the problems don't stop there. If you've lost a tooth and haven't had it replaced, you could be triggering a chain reaction that ultimately causes even more teeth to be lost. Read on to discover how a single lost tooth can cause the losses of multiple teeth and what you can do to stop it.

Jaw Strength

Teeth don't just help you to chew up food and to smile. Teeth play an important role in keeping your jaw strong.

Your jaw bone, gums, and the roots of your teeth all play a part in keeping your teeth firmly in place. When you have healthy teeth, the pressure from you biting down on food travels down the tooth into the jaw bone. Here, the pressure activates a bone-strengthening process where new bone cells are made by the body. When a tooth is lost, this mechanism stops, and the jaw can weaken as a result. With enough weakening, other teeth may be in danger of losing enough support to become diseased or to fall out too.

Pressure on Teeth

Pressure is a two-way street. When you have all of your teeth, pressure is evenly distributed across them and beneficial for your jaw. However, when one or more teeth go missing, the remaining teeth have to pick up the slack.

Excessive pressure on teeth isn't a good thing. It can cause teeth to crack, break, lose enamel, and without dental support, ultimately fall out.

Gum Health

The process of chewing is also important to the health of your gums. Chewing stimulates blood flow in the gums, encouraging healthy tissue growth and helping to reduce inflammation and tissue puffiness. With a missing tooth, that area of your gums won't receive these benefits. In time, especially if you develop gum disease, it can cause the loss of the teeth surrounding where your now-missing tooth once was.

Solution

Thankfully, fixing these problems are fairly easy with the help of a qualified dentist. Dentists can help you by giving you dental implants.

Dental implants are designed to emulate the form and function of real teeth. Dental implants have a post beneath them that acts as a channel for pressure to travel through, just like with your real teeth. They also help to equalize how pressure across your teeth is dispersed, taking strain off of surrounding teeth. All in all, dental implants are the fix you're looking for if you don't want to lose more teeth.

Dental implants are a safe and effective method of having a missing tooth replaced. If you want to protect your remaining teeth, talk to your dentist about dental implants. Contact a clinic, like Sun Dental,  for more help.