Learn about the benefits you can enjoy by switching from traditional dentures to implant-supported dentures.
Despite all the advances in dental care, tooth loss remains a serious problem, especially for those who many not have taken excellent care of their teeth over the years. In fact, over 30 million Americans are missing all the teeth in at least one of their arches, with many of these individuals missing all of their teeth in both the upper and lower arches.
If you are one of these individuals, you may have been using traditional dentures as a solution. While dentures are certainly better than having no teeth at all, they do have significant limitations. Fortunately, many of these limitations can be overcome with a new procedure: implant-supported dentures.
What Are Implant-Supported Dentures?
Implant-supported dentures look very similar to traditional dentures. You will still have a row of replacement teeth set in an artificial gum. However, the important difference is that an implant supported denture is anchored in place on top of titanium dental implant pegs surgically implanted in your jaw.
Benefits of Implant-Supported Dentures
No More Slipping: Traditional dentures can move around in your mouth quite a lot. This can be embarrassing, especially when you’re first learning to wear dentures and there is quite a lot of movement. Implant-supported dentures will not move! You can wear them out in public confidently the very same day they are placed with no chance of embarrassing movement.
Speak Clearly: Even in experienced denture wearers, there is the potential for the dentures to interfere with normal speech. They might make the wearer lisp or they might make weird clicking noises. With implant-supported dentures, there is no noise and no speech impediment because there is no movement.
Eat All Your Favorite Foods: All too often, people who wear dentures are advised to change their diet to soft foods so it will be easier for them to bite and chew. A better solution would be to exchange their dentures for implant-supported dentures, which allow any food to be eaten confidently and safely.
Keep Your Jaw Healthy: Another extremely important benefit of implant-supported dentures is that the titanium pegs supporting the denture actually stimulate and bond with the tissue in your jaw. This not only creates a strong and stable base for the replacement teeth; it also stops the bone loss that would otherwise be occurring in your jaw. This bone loss is why regular dentures stop fitting properly every few years and need to be adjusted.
Want to Learn More?
If you would like to learn if you are good candidate for implant-supported dentures, please contact California Dental Group today.
