Removable dentures are used as prosthetic replacements for lost teeth, and to provide support to the lips and face when underlying bone has also been lost. Using dental implants to retain dentures offers increased stability, comfort, retention and helps to retain your jawbone, thereby supporting an attractive and full facial profile.
With assistance from our exceptional technicians, we will meticulously construct your new dentures to complement your facial features. Typically, dentures rest on the gums and hook around remaining teeth. However, dentures will usually adversely affect these neighbouring tissues until eventually more teeth are lost. The jawbone under the gums loses bulk, and the gum covering the jaw reduces in quality. As these supporting tissues are degraded, the dentures become more unstable and uncomfortable to wear.
Your gums were never designed to support dentures. Placing implants to support and retain a denture will offer increased stability, improving comfort, retention, but most importantly helping to retain the jawbone. We believe that providing dental implants to support full dentures should ideally be the standard of care we would like to offer all our patients – although when teeth are still present, a partial denture may also be an effective way to replace a few missing teeth.
An important advantage of implant retained dentures is that good oral hygiene is easy to maintain. Brushing and flossing around implants is simple once the denture or bridge has been removed. This may be important where access is problematic, for example where there is a lot of bone loss, or when a patient has limited dexterity.
