6 Key causes of jaw bone loss Jaw bone is the strongest bone in your facial skeleton and it provides the essential framework to your facial features. Besides forming the mouth structure, the jaw bone helps us in speaking, chewing properly. The loss of bone in one or more parts of the jaw will affect various aspects of your oral health.
Mostly, jaw bone loss does not exhibit any signs in its initial stage. As the bone resorption progresses, it shows various warning signals such as wrinkles around the mouth, loose teeth, facial appearance changes, hardship in chewing. Remember that bone loss in the jaw happens as a consequence of problematic oral conditions left untreated. Here our dentists have explained the common causes of jaw bone loss.
What causes bone loss in your jaw? Our bones undergo the process of remodeling constantly. It involves removing the old bone (resorption) and add new bone in the required regions (ossification). When the resorption process occurs at a higher rate than the ossification process, it leads to bone loss. Various factors that trigger such bone loss in your jaw are as follows:
1) Chronic Periodontal disease Our teeth are embedded in the jaw bone. The progression of infection in the gum tissues will affect the tooth-supporting structures like ligaments, etc, When the microbes responsible for gum diseases affects the bone tissues, it will end up in teeth loss. If the missing teeth are not replaced promptly, jaw bone resorption will happen.