An implant-retained overdenture involves two or more implants along with a removable appliance. Dentists have said this is an upgrade from your typical denture.

These provide more support than traditional dentures. Also, implant-retained overdentures can improve your chewing better than a traditional denture.

You will need your dentist to reline this type of denture occasionally because, as your bone and tissues change over time, the fixture will need to be adjusted to fit. However, these are the most affordable option.

One big reason denture implants are a great option is because they help you preserve your jaw bone and prevent further deterioration. This is not only healthy for your mouth, but it can improve your facial structure

If you’re missing multiple teeth or they’re not in good shape, there’s less in the jawbone that will stimulate bone growth. This is because your body can sense if your jawbone doesn’t need to support teeth any longer, so it will begin to pull tissues from the mouth to use elsewhere.

Missing even one tooth with no replacement can lead to deformed lips, chin, and wrinkly skin.

Because you’ll look better and have a healthier jawbone and mouth, you’ll most likely feel better physically but also mentally. You’ll probably feel better about yourself and have much more self-confidence.

Once you get replacement teeth, you’ll be more comfortable, confident, and have an overall better quality of life. With teeth, speaking is easier, smiling is a joy, and eating is no problem.

Denture implants are especially beneficial because you don’t have to deal with messy adhesives or ugly clasps. Denture implants help preserve your jaw bone and help your mouth look more natural, which leads to higher self-esteem, confidence, and an overall better quality of life.

A series of scans are taken by your dentist to aid in positioning the implant and to ensure you have plenty of healthy bone structure. If the bone is diseased or missing, there is still a possibility of a bone graft in order to make an implant viable.

Two or four titanium implants are surgically placed in the bone of your jaw. They are then left for between two and six months so the bone can grow around the implants. During this time, you may wear full upper lower dentures.

If more extensive treatment is needed, for example bone grafts or many implants, then the post-operative course may require more time and medication.

Anaesthesia during the surgery should make the placement procedure pain-free.

Whether or not the dental implant can be placed immediately after extraction depends on the amount of available bone in the area and presence or absence of active infection.

Placing the implant at the same visit helps preserve both width and height of bone and may prevent the need for placing bone grafts when bone naturally shrinks back after teeth are extracted.

During the first year after teeth have been removed, as much as 40% of jawbone width can be lost.

Sometimes, infection from a tooth or periodontal disease has destroyed the bone to such an extent that it becomes necessary to do a bone grafting procedure prior to implant placement.

If it is possible to place the implant at the same visit as the teeth are extracted, this can save at least three months in healing time compared to waiting for an extraction site to heal before the implants can be placed.

Once the implants are securely fused to the bone, small ball shaped extensions are placed over the implants and the dentures receive housings with rubber rings to hold on to the ball extensions. That is how dentures are secured to theimplants which you can remove easily to clean.