Loss of teeth and what can happen to bite.

In the body if you don’t use you lose it. So, if the tooth is lost, the bone that surrounds the tooth will start to removed by the body, this is called resorption. It’s not needed so away it goes. Interesting, if the tooth is lost to gum problems that affect this “tooth” bone, the bone loss is faster and greater, than a tooth removed for other reasons such as decay.

A principle of tooth loss, the surrounding “fall” into the space. The teeth on either side of the space will tip into. A tooth above the space will move down if it does not meet another tooth on the way down. Even a lower tooth can move up into a space on the upper jaw. 

See even a tooth can defy gravity!

Teeth can rotate as they move into the space. The tooth next to the moving tooth does not have a tooth next to it stop it moving, so it also moves or rotates or tip. 

Occasionally, with teeth moving closer to the opposing jaw, the tooth causes jaw movements, especially forwards and backwards, to get locked up, affecting jaw joints. The movement of the joint becomes dysfunctional as it tries to do negotiate, this anatomical speed bump. Often biting the tongue and cheek, very tasty, leading to muscle spasms, bruising, ulcers and clicking jaw joints.

What a mess that continues for the rest of your life. 

But there’s more. The mess of teeth are now in positions that become difficult to clean and use. Decay, gum issues and jaw joint dysfunction increase greatly.

Not happy teeth, not happy life!!!