In addition to replacing missing teeth with dental implants, we can also create maxillofacial prosthetics that can address portions of the inner and outer structure that have been lost to disease or congenital issues. In today’s blog, Modern Dentistry of Shrewsbury talks about helping smiles in Shrewsbury, MA, with a custom maxillofacial prosthetic!
Treatment for Tooth Loss and Serious Injuries
With dental implants, including All-On-Four, we can replace every tooth in your smile and create a new smile, one that looks and functions like natural teeth. This helps keep your jawbone and facial structure intact, so you maintain your youthful facial features, even if you have lost your natural teeth. But what if the same issues with tooth loss also leads to lost tissues and structures in your face? If so, this could impact how you chew, speak, and swallow, and make you feel very self-conscious. These cones could be caused by birth defects, or severe accidents. Our team can provide a way to replace these structures and rebuild crucial portions of the lost smile with intraoral and extraoral prostheses.
Our Intraoral Prostheses
If you have lost oral structures to congenital defects, cancer, or neuromuscular conditions, we can create an intraoral prosthesis that fits within your mouth, and helps rebuild what has been lost so you can chew and swallow with ease again. Our team will craft them based on detailed, digital images we take of your bite, and we may conduct surgery alongside this to prepare your face and smile. Since this is located within your mouth, the process tends to be more complex and involved, but we can help restore your smile to better function and beauty again!
An Extraoral Option
The extraoral option is mainly used to help improve the appearance of your smile, so you can feel more confident and enjoy a social life again. We plan the process in detail to ensure a lifelike appearance, and the process tends to be less complex for the extraoral option, so you can see results quicker. We want you to feel good when you laugh and smile, and be able to enjoy interacting with others again.
If you have any questions about how our team will plan and implement custom prosthetic devices to address tooth loss and lost structure, then reach out today. We can also create devices that help protect your smile if you are undergoing more extensive radiation therapy, then reach out to our team today to learn more and get started!
Schedule an Appointment to Rebuild Your Smile
The team at Modern Dentistry of Shrewsbury in MA can help you enjoy a healthier and more attractive smile with maxillofacial prosthetics. To schedule an appointment with us, call our office today at 508-842-8838.
