As your age gets older, your teeth are likewise taking a new phase that’s not ideal for your social need; they, specifically, enter the stage of decomposition. This is obvious, but it’s really bad to see a mouth without any tooth, right? And it’s even more embarrassing if the missing tooth is that which can be directly seen when you smile or laugh. In such a case, you may lose confidence, and then limit yourself from expressing the joy you felt deep within your heart just because you don’t want your friends or loved ones get offended, turned off, or laugh at you when they see the unfilled hole in your gum-line.

It’s strange, but many people have had a horrible experience as such. There’s no exception – from toddlers to older individuals have a fear of losing their entire teeth not primarily because they will have no means of breaking or biting their favorite foods, but because they don’t want to lose the gratefulness that a single and beautiful smile could give. But then, despite of this issue, nothing has been said and done by many when it comes to regenerating their treasured teeth.

Regeneration? Yes, there’s no “joke” about that. Your teeth can now be regenerated even before you lost them. The process, in this context, is not just limited in the interpretation you might have as that of bringing in life those teeth that died long time ago; it’s somehow absurd. The regeneration is a dynamic term, and as used here, it covers the procedure of restoring the authentic appearance of your teeth. But probably, it’s still worthy to focus the matter on how could you possibly regenerate your lost tooth. Hence, let’s take this scientifically:

According to several studies, the dental stem cells are now considered to be potential in regenerating dead tissues. Such, apparently, includes the use of cells in repairing damaged tooth tissues such as periodontal ligament, dentine, and dental pulp. It’s quite technical for a layman, but to simplify it, the main point for which the research had focused on is the possible repair or restoration of tissues responsible for tooth regeneration as it appears to be.

If only it’s possible now to regenerate the teeth biologically, it would be doubtless to say that the repair, restoration, and replacement would become inutile as there will be one irreplaceable process that can perfect what a patient desires to see with his entire teeth. However, this is just one of the possibilities of the current studies being taken to further enhance what the dentistry could remedy to the common problem of the old-aged people.

Thus, the current solution is the dental implant that usually resorted to by individuals who have no other option except to have an artificial tooth attached into their bones with a metal rod. This is the most amicable way of avoiding the nasty of having incomplete teeth that is ultimately unpleasant to the eyes and unfavorable for eating purposes.

Nevertheless, fighting tooth decay does not begin after you’ve already lost your teeth, it starts even before you experience a toothache. As you may probably know, it’s the bacteria that cause decay; hence, when you preclude them from evading and damaging any of your thirty-two “natural” dentures, then you’ll have nothing to worry about losing all of them before you die.

Stay healthy and your teeth will just “regenerate” naturally!

– Dr. Sherri Worth, a well-known California dentist has been providing a world-class aesthetic and reconstructive dental services. She has helped many celebrities, models and even sports icon achieve a great-looking smile. Dr Worth is also member of the American Dental Association, Academy of General Dentistry, Orange County Dental Society, Academy of Osseointegration and Association of Women Dentists.