Fully functioning false teeth

If you have lost some teeth, or are on the way to losing some, you will know how important teeth actually are. Sure, they look nice, but they are also very important for chewing and therefore ingesting the right nutrients we need to be healthy.

The trouble with traditional false teeth in the form of full or partial dentures, or fixed bridges, is that they do not give us back our full chewing power. Indeed, when people start to wear dentures, they get a long list of foods that are now beyond their chewing capabilities. Dentures only have about a quarter of the chewing power of real teeth. This is one reason why dental implants in St John’s Wood are proving so popular. Food is increasingly being discovered to be as important as medicine for good health, and, unless you want to live on smoothies and soups for the rest of your life, being able to chew is vital to maintaining nutrient levels and therefore health.

How do dental implants work?

In St John’s Wood, dental implants at Aura Dental are giving people back the full functionality of their teeth. They do so because they replace the root of the tooth as well as the crown. Once stabilised in the jaw through a process called osseointegration, the dental implant can withstand multi directional chewing forces of up to 220lb or 97kg. This is more than the chewing force of the average adult male.

Having dental implants holding the crowns securely in place also means that biting is easy again. Denture wearers are advised to cut up their food before they eat it because there’s a good chance they might leave their teeth in whatever they are biting into.

At Aura Dental in St John’s Wood, dental implants are used to replace single teeth, several teeth in a row, or even all your teeth. Each implant can support up to 3 teeth on a bridge. When they are used to replace all the teeth, between 4 and 6 implants are strategically placed within the upper and lower jawbone to support a set of dentures.