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Dental Implants, A Truly Worthy Investment
It’s hard to smile with confidence when you have missing teeth. Tooth loss will impact not only your appearance but also your oral health and lifestyle. New dental implants stand out among the various options for replacing lost teeth. Removable dentures and fixed bridges can only go so far in restoring your smile. Implants are a long-lasting solution for missing teeth, giving back the smile you lost when your teeth went missing. Riverside, California, residents can contact the office of Neal Edwards, DDS, for quality implant treatment.
Is Getting Dental Implants Worth It?
Your smile is more powerful than you think! A pleasing smile makes it easier to engage with others, make friends, advance your career, and face life with confidence. Tooth loss can rob you of your life and lifestyle quickly due to loss of confidence and self-esteem. Enter dental implants. Implants look, feel, and act like natural teeth to make your grin attractive and whole again. These artificial tooth roots are placed in your jaw surgically to integrate with your bone tissue and become the support system for your new teeth. After the implants have healed, Dr. Neal Edwards will attach a connector (abutment) and your restoration, completing your smile. Implants are the next best thing to having natural teeth. Yes, they cost more initially, but look at all the benefits you get in return:
- The Look and Feel of Real Teeth!
With implants, you get a reconstructed smile that replicates the structure of natural teeth – from the tip of the crown to the roots. Your restorations will be custom-made for comfort, function, and a natural-looking appearance. Upon completing your treatment, you’ll have a realistic smile you can show off proudly.
- Restored Tooth Functionality
Implants not only resemble natural teeth but also function like them. Due to being anchored by artificial tooth roots, they won’t accidentally slip or come loose (a common problem with traditional dentures) when chatting with friends, laughing, or chewing food. Implants will improve your chewing power, enabling you to supplement your diet with all kinds of delicious foods.
- Strength and Longevity
Implant restorations are made of durable, stain-resistant porcelain material that mimics the look and feel of natural teeth. The roots are biocompatible titanium screws, which are known for their strength-to-weight ratio and biocompatibility in medical applications. With proper care, implants can last the rest of your life, and porcelain restorations can last up to 20 years, giving you a long-term return on your investment. Â
- Better Oral Health & Hygiene
Tooth loss can trigger all kinds of additional oral health issues, like bone loss, dental drift, and increased risk of decay and gum disease. Implants help prevent these issues, promoting overall oral health. They support nearby teeth to keep them from shifting. They contribute to jaw health and stability and make oral hygiene easier to prevent decay and gum disease.Â
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Neal Edwards DDS, FICOI
Dr. Neal Edwards, DDS, FICOI, studied Biology at La Sierra University before earning his dental degree from the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. A practicing dentist since 2007, he loves meeting new people and helping them achieve their dental goals through pleasant dental experiences.Dr. Edwards holds memberships in the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, American Academy of Implant Dentistry, and International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI). He is very keen on continuing education and completed his ICOI Fellowship recently. He had also completed a mini-residency in implant dentistry from Loma Linda University. He is a Team Dentist for the Ontario Reign hockey team - LA Kings’ AHL affiliate.
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Erin’s Experience With Teeth Grinding
My name’s Aaron Phillips, and I’ve been a patient of Dr. Edwards for about seven years since he opened his practice. The treatment that I’ve received that’s made the biggest difference in my smile has really been addressing my grinding. So I grind a lot. I grind at night, I grind during the day. I’m clenching, and so I’ve cracked a molar and he’s had to fill another molar where I’ve just ground away. It’s down to dentin, and that’s made a big difference for me in terms of pain and coping through the day. So through his treatment, Dr. Edwards has really helped, I think, preserve and save my teeth because I just grind so hard. But he’s also helped me address pain that I have throughout the day. I have a lot of jaw pain. It creates headaches and tension in my neck, and it was really impacting my daily life.
And so with his help, I’ve been able to address that and save my teeth. So Dr. Edwards, his entire team make us feel really comfortable here in the office. They greet us, they know us, they know the details of our family and our kids. And because we’ve been patients for so long, they just really make us feel like we’re home. It’s a very comfortable environment for us. If folks are interested in getting dental treatment, I think they should choose Dr. Edwards because he’s honest and trustworthy and he’ll tell you what you need and then he’ll follow through. And his staff, they’re amazing. They make you feel very comfortable, very trusting, and they make you feel like family.
Erin’s Experience With Teeth Grinding
Kibra’s Experience With Dental Implants
My name is Kyra Men, and I’ve been a patient of Dr. Edwards for about 15 years now. So the treatment that I received with Dr. Edwards that made the biggest difference for me were my implants. I needed an implant. I needed a bridge. I mean, my confidence was shot because my teeth had a lot of issues. Your smile is everything. I’m an educator. I teach kids. I sing a lot, and so being nervous about what you’re going to look like on camera, it really is a thing. So I think just the implants, being able to regain that confidence, it was everything. I decided to get the bridge repair and the implants because my teeth, when he went in to try to repair them, they weren’t salvageable, and so we had to do something to replace my existing teeth. I just felt overall restored. I felt a lot more confident.
I was excited to explore the other treatments that he suggested as well. If someone is interested in a bridge repair treatment, I would say definitely choose Dr. Edwards because he takes time to make sure the small details are covered. For instance, the color of the teeth, you could tell the difference between their natural teeth and then the bridge repair. With him, that’s not the case. He takes the time to make sure that there’s a perfect color match. He maintains the integrity of the shape of the tooth, and even any of the spacing that your normal teeth would have.
Kibra’s Experience With Dental Implants
Lou’s Experience With Same Day Crowns
My name is Lou Monville, and I have been a patient of Dr. Edwards for seven years. So the treatment that I received here that made the biggest difference in my smile is these two things right here. So those teeth got broken in high school, plain water polo, like a lot of my dental work, and I had some old crowns. They were getting to the point that they needed to be replaced, and so Dr. Edwards says it’s time to replace those. But what blew my mind was it was done in a day. I was in and out of here in less than two hours with two brand new teeth that actually looked like my teeth. My wife was blown away. The technology now and the technology that Dr. Edwards has is phenomenal. I was always kind of cautious with my smile, real up close with those kind of big false teeth, and now you can’t tell the difference.
My kids noticed the difference. My family noticed the difference. So it’s been probably one of the best things I’ve done in a long time. Well, if you’re going to have a crown treatment, why would I tell you to go see Dr. Edwards? First off, the attention to detail that was super important. Then two, just the technology, the ability to not have to walk around with a false tooth or a temporary, two crowns in and out, two hours. I’ve never experienced that in my life to have that repair look phenomenal, but to be done, when you walk out and you’ve got your smile, you can’t beat it.