Full Mouth Reconstruction Can Restore Your Smile

By Duke H. Kim, DDS, MAGD

Modern dentistry is now able to provide the most advanced treatment in modern dentistry, a long-term full mouth reconstruction. It consists of a complex treatment plan designed to completely restore all areas of worn down, broken, missing, or decayed teeth. Patients that need a full mouth reconstruction often suffered from trauma or years of neglect. In addition, when gum disease is severe, with extensive bone loss, it is not always possible to retain the natural teeth and full mouth reconstruction may be recommended. Due to its highly complex nature, full mouth reconstruction requires extensive experience, great knowledge, and skill.

When a person has lost, broken, or decayed teeth, it can be embarrassing and may cause them to stop smiling. This can have a great influence on everyday life, relationships, or career. Worn down, missing or broken teeth can cause problems with a person’s bite, resulting in imbalanced forces while biting. This can further destroy remaining teeth and cause gum disease that can cause loss of teeth.

Prior to full mouth reconstruction, your dentist will perform a clinical examination to evaluate your biting force with a high technology T-scan which will help him determine what cause deterioration of the whole mouth. A T-scan helps us determine tooth wear, stability, as well as pinpoint specific muscles with joint strain, ensuring the most accurate diagnosis and treatment.

Full mouth reconstruction treatment may include a combination of the various dental services such as crowns, bridges, porcelain veneers, dental implants, root canals, occlusal adjustments, or even orthodontic treatment. Each case is very unique and tailored by a person’s needs and medical capabilities.

Before committing to a dentist for your full mouth reconstruction, you should ensure that said dentist has and extensive background, many years of hands-on experience, and commitment to continuing education which allows him or her to treat even the most complicated cases. A dentist who continually works to be better can transform your smile and make a radical change in your life.

The final result is a patient who was perhaps hopeless about their tooth loss becomes full of promise with a brand new, gorgeous smile.