Great new teeth

If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well and that could not be truer than for getting replacement teeth. The latest generation of replacement teeth is dental implants. In St John’s Wood, you can get them with us at Aura Dental.

We love fitting people with dental implants in St John’s Wood because we know they will be getting the nearest thing that modern dentistry can get to natural teeth. In comparison, older styles of replacement teeth, dentures and bridges, leave a lot to be desired in terms of how well they chew, how they affect the other teeth and how long they last.

Get the root

The big difference with dental implants in St John’s Wood is that they replace the root of the tooth and not just the crown. Being able to do this did not become possible until the 1950s when a Swedish scientist discovered how well the body bonds with titanium. It took a while for dental implants to be ready to be launched, but they have been increasingly available for the past 30 years and now they have become mainstream, and very versatile as dentists have experimented with them to increase their capabilities.

Dentures and bridges only replace the crowns of lost teeth. Dentures get their stability, such as it is, by trying to get suction onto the gums. It doesn’t always work very well, especially as the gums recede and the jawbone shrinks when there are no tooth roots to keep bone cells renewing themselves. Bridges get their stability by piggybacking on neighbouring teeth, which have to be ground down and made into buttresses. You kiss goodbye to even more teeth when you have a bridge.

With dental implants, you get roots. And roots mean you can get back all the chewing power of your original teeth. That means you can eat apples without having cut them up first. You can eat roast meats, roast potatoes, nuts. All the stuff that makes life worth living.

Along with all this freedom comes longevity. You can expect your dental implants in St John’s Wood to last for at least 15 years, maybe decades.