Missing Teeth in Grand Rapids

Why Replace Your Missing Teeth?

Beyond aesthetics, leaving a gap in your smile or anywhere in your mouth can spark a ripple effect of oral health problems. Your teeth may be straight today, but just one missing tooth can cause surrounding teeth to gradually shift and tilt out of alignment. This can disrupt your bite, make brushing and flossing less effective, and increase your risk of several oral health conditions.

What If It’s Just One Tooth?

Just one missing molar can make it more challenging to chew your favorite foods.

Just one missing front tooth can make it difficult to bite into foods you enjoy.

Craft Dentistry restores your ability to chew!

Have Multiple Missing Teeth?

Multiple missing front teeth can change the shape of your face and alter pronunciation. This negatively impacts the clarity of your communication. If you no longer look or sound like yourself, restorative dentistry can help.  

The Ripple Effect of Missing Teeth

Even if your missing tooth is in the back of your mouth where no one will see or know, it’s best to replace it to:

•         Maintain bite alignment
•         Eliminate tooth shifting
•         Eliminate tooth tilting
•         Maintain speech
•         Maintain facial structure
•         Maintain chewing ability
•         Prevent bone loss
•         Ensure ease of brushing and flossing
•         Reduce the risk of oral health problems

If your teeth have gradually begun to shift and are disrupting your speech, oral health, or self-confidence—Craft Dentistry is here to help!

We Replace Missing Teeth in Grand Rapids

After a comprehensive exam that may include both X-rays and a 3D scan, Dr. Szymanski will present you with your options. This may include:

Dental implants: We surgically implant a titanium post into your jawline and screw a restoration on top. Tooth implants look and function like natural teeth.

Whether for a single tooth, overdentures, or implant-supported dentures—the titanium post acts like a natural tooth root. This stimulates the bone preventing the bone loss that can occur with traditional dentures.

With proper care, implants last a lifetime!

If your implanted tooth is damaged, we can replace or restore it.

Implant-supported bridge: If you’re missing teeth are next to a dental implant, your implant provides a stable option for supporting a bridge.

Overdentures: If you’re missing multiple teeth, we may discuss a series of strategically placed dental implants that attach to removable overdentures.

Being attached to implants, overdentures are more stable than traditional dentures.

Implant-supported dentures: Similar to overdentures, the primary difference is that you can’t remove these dentures at home.

Conventional dentures: Conventional dentures are more comfortable, stable, and life-like than ever before.

Partial dentures: With full dentures, all or most of your upper and lower teeth must be removed.

Partials provide a better fit if you don’t need to remove as many teeth.