Dental Implants & Self Esteem

Dental health, missing teeth, and poor dental hygiene can all have a big impact on self esteem, affecting your smile and changing how you feel about your appearance, as well as what you can potentially eat - so dental implant treatments and maintaining good dental health can have a big impact on restoring your self-confidence as well as your smile.

Dental implants can help restore self-esteem because they look and feel like natural teeth, providing permanent replacements. Implants are a permanent replacement for failing or missing teeth, as well as supporting and prolonging the life of your remaining natural teeth. Dental implant treatments can provide a number of options for patients, including single crowns, multiple tooth bridges and full dentures - giving you a second chance to enjoy a healthy, confident smile.

Dental Implants can also restore your ability to eat whatever you like. Gaps in your jawline and failing teeth can restrict your ability to eat certain foods, which can often be a source of embarrassment and concern for prospective patients - and dentures are not always a fitting solution that can potentially risk further dental issues, or even break. However, dental implants are strong, stable and function like natural teeth, helping to restore normal chewing power and allowing you to enjoy all your favourite foods - helping you to eat with confidence in public.

Missing teeth can also have an impact on speech, and in particular pronouncing words clearly and without any issues, and traditional dentures are not always effective at preventing problems from arising - resulting in you mumbling or slurring your speech. However, dental implants provide a fixed solution that allows you to speak clearly without the concern that teeth might slip. Replacing missing natural teeth with implants enables you to speak normally, and eliminates the worry that your teeth might let you down in social situations.

Smile-in-a-day dental implant treatments can also be particularly effective and minimise the effects that missing teeth can have on your self-confidence, as well as easing concerns about missing teeth in the long term. These dental implant treatments can enable a patient to avoid dentures or missing teeth, and cut down on the number of procedures required to fully restore your smile. 

Smile-In-a-Day dental implants have some advantages over traditional dentures and traditional implants;

• Treatment time - Traditional dental implants require several surgical procedures, taking place over a number of months including periods for healing between them.
• Fewer procedures - During a traditional dental implant procedure, implants are placed within the jawbone - which can then take between three to six months for the gums to heal. However, further surgery is necessary to attach the dental crown to the first stage of the implant, necessitating further healing time.
• Immediate results - Your implants and a full set of temporary fixed teeth can be placed on the same day.
• Reduced costs - Multiple missing teeth can often be replaced using a bridge on implants, thereby reducing the cost, as not every tooth being replaced requires its own implant.

The loss of all of the teeth in an upper or lower jaw can be an extremely debilitating experience for anyone who has to go through it. Unfortunately, a denture of the required size can have a significant impact on an individual’s confidence and quality of life - this is where Smile in a Day implants step in. 

Which solution is right for you depends on your dental needs and suitability for specific treatments, bone availability and the cost of treatment. Discuss your needs with our dental implant specialists today.