The trouble with losing your teeth is that you lose your chewing ability. Yes, you might be ok to keep on eating the same good, healthy foods if you’ve only lost a couple of teeth, but the more you lose the harder it becomes to eat tough, bitty or chewy foods, and your diet becomes more and more comprised of soft foods that do not require chewing.

That’s alright for a while (if you love soup and ice cream!), but after a while your body will start to suffer if you are not getting the nutrition you require from a balanced and healthy diet. That’s where dental implants near Mirfield come in.

At Greenside Dental Care near Mirfield, dental implants give you back the wide range of foods you need to stay healthy. They are the only tooth replacement solution that restores the root as well as the crown of your teeth.

The root is the firm anchor with which you chew; it stops the crowns wobbling around, as you no doubt remember from when your baby teeth were falling out all those years ago.

Other tooth restoration solutions, such as dentures and bridges, almost always require a change in diet. Chewy foods, such as toffees and gloopy spreads, will stick to them. Bitty foods, such as nuts, end up stuck between the plate and your mouth. Tough and crunchy foods are hard to bite into without leaving your teeth behind (never a good look).

Dental implants get around these embarrassments and inconveniences by giving you a firm chewing anchor that can withstand multi-directional forces of up to 97kg or 200lbs. That should be enough for any toffee apple or sirloin steak.

To have dental implants near Mirfield fitted, you will need to undergo a small surgical procedure to insert the implants into artificially created sockets in your jawbone. You do not need to have one implant for each tooth lost. One implant can support up to three teeth. Or, if you have lost all your teeth, you can have the whole lot replaced using between only four and six implants per jaw.