The Significance of Tooth Loss
| The bone between your nose and your chin is there because your teeth are there. The bone in your jaws is much like a muscle in that the bone needs exercise to maintain it’s shape, again, much like a muscle. When teeth are lost, the jaw bone stops getting any exercise, causing the bone to melt away or atrophy. This bone melting away is the major cause of facial aging in people that loose their teeth and also is the cause for dentures to continually become loose and need to be relined. |  |
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