When you lose your natural teeth, this can impact multiple facets of your daily life, including how you eat and your ability to speak clearly. Dentures can address your missing teeth, but with dental implant dentures, we can offer results that are ready to last for years to come. At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, we’re talking about restoring the function, health, and beauty of your smile with All-On-Four fixed dentures. The Impact of Advanced Tooth Loss Losing the vast majority of your teeth could lead to serious trouble for your oral health and your quality of life too. Edentu ..read more

When a tooth is impacted, this could mean it only partially erupts, which can lead to issues with your smile’s health and appearance, and complicate orthodontic treatment. But our team can offer a solution, and one that doesn’t involve extracting the tooth! At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, we can bracket impacted teeth into their proper positions. The Causes and Dangers of an Impacted Tooth As we grow, our primary teeth fall out and in their place, the permanent teeth arrive. But if the primary teeth don’t fall out in time, due to factors like lack of root dissolution, then the ..read more

As teens approach adulthood, wisdom teeth could soon erupt. For adults, this may have already happened, leading to major complications. To help restore the health and appearance of your smile, we may need to extract these teeth. At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, you can protect your smile by extracting your wisdom teeth. The Impacts of Your Third Molars As we reach adulthood, new teeth could erupt in the rear of our mouth. These are wisdom teeth, and for some as many as four could arrive. At one time, these served a purpose but over the millennia our mouths have evolved to ..read more

Our team offers oral surgery to address serious concerns, from rebuilding smiles with jawbone grafting, or replacing missing teeth with dental implants. To ensure these procedures are comfortable, even for this with dental anxiety, our team can help with dental sedation. At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, we can offer calming medications with sedation dentistry. When Do You Need a Calming Solution? Oral surgery allows our team to treat complex and advanced oral health concerns, such as tooth loss, the need for a tooth extraction, or even jawbone grafting or a sinus lift. But we w ..read more

When you lose your natural teeth, this could leave your jawbone vulnerable to loss of mass and density. A breakdown linked to additional missing teeth and an aged appearance. This weakened structure could also be unable to support dental implants, limiting your tooth replacement options. At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, we can help with jawbone grafting and implant placement! Tooth Loss and Weakened Jaws The body will take notice of your missing roots, and in response will suspend or divert the flow of calcium and phosphorus to the area around the missing roots. Which means the ..read more

When you have lost the majority of your teeth, you may need a complete set of dentures. For a fixed version, and one that can help people who have lost jawbone density due to tooth loss, we can offer All-On-Four. At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, we can secure All-On-Four implant dentures! The Loss of Your Teeth When we lose our teeth, this impacts how we eat, how clearly we speak, and can even lead to complications like misalignment, TMJ disorder, bruxism, and tooth decay and gum disease. That’s a lot of concerns! But the most severe complication is the loss of mass and density ..read more

As people approach adulthood, there could be a change to their smile. For some, up to four new molars could erupt, which makes a number of negative changes to your smile. At your Metairie, LA, oral surgery clinic, we can protect smiles by carefully extracting the wisdom teeth. The Dangers of Wisdom Teeth There simply isn’t room for these teeth in most cases, so once they arrive in early adulthood, they could cause severe issues for our oral health. The lack of room could mean a painful partial eruption known as impaction, which in turn damages nearby teeth to increase the risk of tooth d ..read more

If you have feelings of anxiousness or unease about an upcoming dental procedure, we could use sedation techniques to enhance your comfort. We understand that more advanced dental treatments can seem intimidating, and will do everything in our power to help you feel at home before your care. By learning more about the types of sedation available to facilitate your comfort, you can plan the service you receive when pursuing dental work. We would hate for you to put off or even forego a critically needed treatment because of your feelings about the procedure itself. At your Metairie, LA, oral su ..read more

Dental implants don’t need crowns, suctions, or adhesives to secure new teeth. Instead, we insert them to the jaw, with implant posts that act as new roots. We then attach a restoration or denture. But what makes these durable teeth look so natural too? At our Metairie, LA oral surgery clinic, we can offer new and long-lasting teeth that last for years to come! The Causes of Your Tooth Loss As we age, the risk of tooth loss increases. Missing teeth often occur due to factors like injuries, accidents, or even untreated cavities or infections. The most common factor is periodontitis, the advanc ..read more

There are more than just cosmetic consequences to the loss of teeth. Even one missing tooth impacts how you bite and chew food, with awkward jaw movements causing disproportionate wear and tear to remaining teeth and putting more strain on your joints. Fortunately, you can take on these functional issues as well as the effect of tooth loss on your smile thanks to implant dentistry. At our Metairie, LA oral surgery clinic, we can discuss the role implants play in your smile restoration. Whether you need to replace one tooth or have an entire row that needs to be restored, the added stability of ..read more