Only you need to know they’re not real

People really rather dread other people finding out that their teeth are not real. There is quite a stigma attached to having false teeth that look like false teeth. Maybe it’s because false teeth on dentures have in the past been liable to behave badly and embarrass their owners, and the crowns didn’t look very real either.

Both pitfalls can be avoided, provided the crowns are made by a good dental technician, like those here at Aura Dental, skilled in crafting lifelike teeth for each person, and the foundation for the crowns will remain stable.

This second requirement is what sets dental implants in St John’s Wood apart from other tooth restoration methods.

Strong and stable

It’s the way that dental implants in St John’s Wood are embedded in the jaw that makes them much more stable and strong than either dentures or fixed bridges.

Dentures only offer about a quarter of the chewing power of natural teeth because they rely on suction to the gum for stability. Bridges rely on neighbouring healthy teeth which are fitted with crowns that act as buttresses to the bridge. Trouble is, the teeth have to be ground down to take the buttress crowns and can never be whole natural teeth in their own right again.

Dental implants in St John’s Wood are tiny titanium posts or screws that replace the root of the teeth and then have porcelain crowns fitted on top, once the implants have integrated over several weeks into the jawbone.

Once integrated, dental implants provide as much chewing power as natural teeth, and can be very long-lasting, even for decades. As long as you look after them well, and avoid gum disease, there is no reason why they should start to wobble around and give the game away. Plus, they will prevent you getting a pointy chin and collapsed face, which come with jawbone loss.

The implants help preserve the jawbone, which starts to dissolve once it’s missing tooth roots. The jawbone needs the tremors of tooth roots to renew itself and without them it actively starts to melt away, losing as much as 25% of its size and density in the first year alone after tooth loss.