Conventional dentures help you keep up with your eating regimes, but implant-supported dentures are more advantageous. These implants not only hold your artificial teeth like natural teeth but are also more comfortable over traditional dentures. You will have more chewing capacity and natural biting with denture implants compared to the conventional dentures.
Dentures with implant replace some of your teeth roots and thus preserve your jaw bone to a great extent. Conventional dentures are placed over your teeth roots which tend to deteriorate. Denture implants are more convenient compared to the conventional dentures and ensure a healthy jawbone, keeping it intact.
While you can chew all kinds of food with denture implants, it is difficult to eat hard-textured food using conventional dentures.
When it comes to maintenance, implants are far easier to manage. Under conventional dentures, chances are high that your jawbone might collapse leading to an unattractive smile. While with implants, due care is taken to preserve your jawbone as the implant will stand on these jawbones.
How Is A Denture Implants Undertaken?
Implants, which are like cylinders or screws, are placed in your jaw. It takes around 2 to 6 months to get these implants bonded to your bones, forming an anchoring for your artificial teeth. Over the implant sites, you can wear a temporary teeth replacement.
Once the implants are settled with your jaw bone, extensions are added to them. Multiple crowns could be attached to the implants with the help of the temporary healing caps and other connecting devices. This procedure takes a couple of weeks as your gums take considerable time to heal up.
Now the connecting device is placed which is tightened down on the implant to hold your new artificial teeth.
Full denture Implants created for you will be attached to the connecting devices and you are now ready to smile with a newfound confidence.
These are some of the common steps and your dentist devises an appropriate program, suiting your requirements.
Single Tooth Implant
If you are missing one or two teeth and your confidence has hit rock bottom, it’s time to consider single tooth implant. Your dentist generally fixes this implant to your jawbone and it acts like a ‘new’ root for the crown. There are two prerequisites for this procedure- your jaw must have enough bones and the bones must be strong enough to support the implant. In case your jaw bones are not enough, a procedure named Bone Augmentation is also conducted. The supporting tissues and the natural teeth located near the implant must also be in good health. Following are some of the relevant points to be considered for a single tooth implant:
The implant is made up of titanium which can be placed in the lower or upper jawbone.
The abutment which is attached to the implant and connects the crown can be made up of gold, titanium or porcelain. Initially shaped like a natural tooth, it is cut down to implant the crown.
Crown is the restoration part which looks like a natural tooth. Porcelain is fused to the metal alloy and it can be all porcelain or all metal to form a crown. The crown is cemented or crewed into the abutment.
However, the time taken for the process is largely governed by several factors which vary from five months to eight months. Nowadays, one stage implant procedure is preferred over the conventional methods and takes just one visit to complete the procedure.
You should visit an experienced a dentist or prosthodontist who has advanced training skills in the placement of implants as well as their restoration.
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