With tooth loss, a five-fold decrease in function occurs and the diet shifts to softer foods. Also, when bone is lost, some patients may develop numbness of the lower lip or even the possibility of fracture of the jaw rises. Since the bone is deteriorating, it may affect other healthy teeth and ultimately cause the loss of those teeth. Tooth loss has a domino effect on adjacent teeth, bone and gums. Once you lose a tooth, others shift forward or backward.
Bone surrounding that tooth is lost and soon affects others as well.
In addition, this progression will affect the ability to provide the same treatment in the later stages of bone loss than if treatment had been started earlier in the process. By waiting, you risk the possibility of not being able to provide the same, simple type of treatment that would have been possible earlier.