Friday, January 29th, 2010
As dentists, when we get the teeth to the right position in the facial structure, it purses the lips, makes them look fuller, and it gets rid of a lot of the initial wrinkles that form early in life around the mouth…And also the most important part of dentistry, as it relates to facial beauty, is in people who have a bad bite or have tmj problems. These individuals always have a tenseness in the muscles of the face because of chronic pain, or as they wear their teeth-their mouth over closes. If you restore health and comfort, the muscles relax and the face takes on a totally different youthful appearance.
In the teeth that are worn – that’s when you start getting the profile where the chin sticks out too far and the lower third of the face appears too short. This makes people look like they are wearing dentures even with their natural teeth. So for restoration done on the mouth, with a proper bite that opens right to the level where the muscles work best, tis will also add greatly in the facial beauty and rejuvenation of the face. We recommend for individuals who have a dental issue, to get that fixed before they consider doing a face lift or any cosmetic surgery. You can reduce the amount of surgery that is needed and, sometimes that eliminates the need for a face lift for some of the problems around the mouth. If there is someone who does need facial work, having a beautiful smile to go with it dramatically increases the effectiveness of the results.
When someone looks at a person for the first time, they notice their eyes, then they notice their smile, then they notice their other facial features. The smile is an incredible part of projecting beauty and youthfulness. For anyone who has had the misfortune of having to have gone to dentures, it’s important that those dentures get relined or replaced frequently enough to maintain the support of the lips and the height of the teeth to keep them from looking old before their time. In some cases you can tie that into implants because, to keep the dentures in the right place and to keep the gums from being sore, implants become necessary.
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
If you have an abscess tooth, and its not hurting too bad, it could be draining in to the sinus, causing chronic sinus irritation. When you look at an x-ray of the upper tooth, the roots are visible up there and the sinus comes down – usually following a pattern of that root. In other words, the roots are holding that up and when you take the tooth out, there is constant gentle pressure there inside the sinus. The bone reacts to pressure and the bone in the maxilla is softer bone. So it does what we call numatizes that area.: the sinus starts enlarging, getting bigger because it is gently pushing that bone and the bone is resorbing (losing substance).
We see a many individuals who, when their teeth are out, have paper thin bone between the ridge and the sinus. If it’s a denture, then that can be tender all the time when they have sinus problems, and the bone goes away so we don’t have a place to put the implants. If the teeth have been removed and left our for a long time, you can still get implants, but you have to go through a grafting procedure to raise the sinus floor and grow new bone to put implants in. The other thing that is particularly prominent when you have a tooth on the side but the middle teeth are missing, is the sinus comes down and now you have a low spot where the fluids are always sitting. This makes the individual more prone to get infections.
What are some symptoms that may indicate that the sinus problems you are having may be related to your teeth? If you had a tooth taken out and you want to have it replaced you should do it sooner rather than later so that the sinus doesn’t numatize and you don’t require an extra surgery.
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