The Innovative Solution for Missing Teeth
Snap-In Implant Dentures are custom-made dentures that securely attach to dental implants installed by your dentist. This innovative solution offers stability and comfort, allowing you to enjoy the following benefits:
- Improve Your Dining Experience - By securing your dentures with dental implants, you can enjoy your favorite meals with enhanced stability and confidence.
- Fixed Solution - Unlike removable dentures, this option remains securely in the mouth.
- Laugh and smile confidently, assured that your dentures are firmly in place.
- Enjoy enhanced comfort with dentures that offer reduced movement and minimize rubbing and chafing.
- Improve your nutrition by chewing food more effectively.
- Suitable for patients with limited bone for implants.
- Prevent bone loss - Dental implants help stimulate the jawbone, reducing the risk of bone loss after tooth extraction.
- Reduce or eliminate gag reflex - In some cases, removing a portion of the palate can reduce or eliminate the gagging sensation caused by your dentures.
- Enhanced comfort - Dental implants minimize or eliminate the discomfort caused by denture movement.
- Improve taste - Some patients with implants may have part of their upper denture's palate removed, enhancing their taste perception.
Comparing Snap-In Implant Dentures to Traditional Dentures
- Reduced chewing ability: Movement of lower dentures limits chewing power, typically to 10-20% of natural teeth, with constant destabilization from tongue and cheek movements.
- Speech difficulties: Movement of lower dentures can make speaking challenging.
- Embarrassment: Fear of dentures slipping out can hinder eating, laughing, and speaking comfortably in social situations.
- Pain: Shifting of traditional dentures, especially lower ones, often leads to gum irritation and discomfort.
- Poor nutrition: Reduced chewing power may prevent patients from eating a balanced diet and properly digesting food.
- Bone loss: Tooth extraction commonly results in significant bone loss, making wearing traditional dentures increasingly difficult over time.
- Gagging: Traditional upper dentures covering the roof of the mouth can induce gagging, with attempts to reduce this resulting in decreased stability and suction.
Snap-In Implant Dentures offer significant improvements in addressing these challenges.
Is Snap-In Implant Dentures Right for You?
Most patients are eligible! A brief consultation is needed to confirm. During this appointment, we'll take a 3D scan of your jawbones, perform an oral examination, and review your medical history in detail with you.
Determining the Number of Implants Needed
Upper | To ensure adequate stability and support, a minimum of four implants is necessary for an upper implant denture.
Lower | Although a lower implant denture can operate with just two implants, incorporating three or four implants usually enhances retention and stability considerably.
Frequently Asked Questions
For an upper implant denture, a minimum of four implants is required, whereas a lower implant denture typically requires at least two implants. Generally, increasing the number of implants enhances the stability of your denture. This is especially significant for the lower denture, where having three or four implants is typically preferable to just two.
