Did You Know Your Dentures Can Now Be More Secure Than Ever?
Denture stabilisation at Abbey Road Dental
Standard dentures can make such a huge difference in how your oral health functions and looks.
Compared to having missing teeth, dentures can truly transform your smile, filling out the spaces that your natural teeth once occupied. Dentures have many benefits including:
- Enhancing your smile
- Enhancing your smile-related confidence
- Stopping remaining teeth from moving and collapsing into the gap
- Improving speech
- Improving eating habits
- Maintaining facial structure that can be affected by missing teeth
However dentures can have many issues, regardless of whether they are partial or full, and whether or not they have been fitted really well.
Would you love to have secure dentures that feel completely natural? Now you can with implant retained dentures at Abbey Dental in St John’s Wood, NW8. Implant retained dentures are the ‘gold standard’ in denture treatment, providing you with a beautiful, functional smile without any of the mess and potential embarrassment associated with normal dentures.
Standard Dentures And Their Problems
Here at Abbey Road Dental we have exceptional diagnostics, processes and skilled team members to ensure dentures are fitted with precision. You can be sure that standard dentures are comfortable and look great when they are fitted with us. However, there are common issues with dentures that for some patients, never go away even if they have been fitted by a professional team.
Common issues include:
- Excess Saliva – As you have an object in your mouth that is not meant to be there, your saliva glands may make you create more saliva than you need. This can adjust over time, but sometimes there is extra saliva long-term and that is a problem.
- Mouth Sores – This usually only happens when dentures are first fitted, and can be corrected with good quality denture adhesive. However, it can be a regular issue for some denture wearers, causing daily discomfort.
- Embarrassing Incidents – Even if denture adhesive is great, accidents can happen. Dentures slipping out of place can be absolutely devastating in social situations and it can affect the confidence of the person it happens to.
- Issues With Eating – Because dentures can never be totally fixed with standard types, there are restrictions with the foods you can eat. Anything that requires a full bite, like crusty bread or crunchy apples, may be off-limits.
- A Full Mouth Feeling – Although your mouth often adapts to how dentures feel, sometimes patients can complain of mouth fullness long-term, which is really difficult to get used to.
As well as these common issues, even perfectly fitted dentures still don’t tackle issues below the gum-line. They do replace the missing teeth above the gum but below they haven’t replaced the tooth root. This means that your jawbone may degrade and change the shape of your face over time.
Dental Implants – The Modern Solution To Standard Denture Issues
Dental implants are considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for tooth restoration and they are a great solution to many denture issues.
They are made from titanium and serve as a firm replacement for your tooth root that then provides a secure base for tooth replacements such as dentures.
They are inserted into the jawbone and left to heal, after which a denture is attached but still remains removable for cleaning. Usually we need to place up to 6 implants to hold a full arch of dentures. With partial dentures it is usually a lot less.
The Difference Between Dental Implants And Denture Implants
For replacing a single tooth, we place an implant and then attach the crown above it. Having an individual implant for each missing tooth is possible but impractical and expensive; plus it isn’t necessary to do this to achieve a great smile restoration.
Implant retained dentures work like standard implants but in a slightly different way that usually costs less. Rather than one implant per tooth, we can usually place 2-6 implants per tooth jaw as required. The dentures are then attached to the connecting components of the implants that sit above the gum-line.
The Benefits Of Denture Implants
There are many benefits to denture implants including:
- A Secure Feeling
Great fitting standard dentures will fit the gums well and will offer some security. However as there are no natural teeth there, the shape of the gums change, and so denture slippage becomes more of a risk over time. This constant deterioration can mean you need dentures replaced regularly which is expensive. Implant retained dentures offer complete security as they are attached to the jaw. No need to worry about slippage or embarrassing incidents!
- Jawbone Preservation
The jawbone degrades when the tooth is missing and so the facial structure looks different and ages the person with the tooth loss. Dental implants can stop this process because they replace the missing tooth loss and help preserve the jawbone.
- A More Natural Looking And Feeling Fit
As there is no plate in the mouth, and no foreign object, dentures retained by implants will feel much more natural and comfortable compared to standard dentures. Your speech will be less affected too as the teeth won’t take up so much space.
- Comfortable
Implants hold your dentures in place which means there is no suction. There is also no bone degrading and no adhesive, leading to an all-round more comfortable fit.
- Improved Eating
Your full palette will be free but your dentures will still be secure. That means more taste and flavour to foods, and a more adventurous diet again because there is no chance of slippage.
- Improved Confidence
With fear that every time you smile or talk that your teeth will find their way out of your mouth, it makes sense that you might feel a loss of confidence with standard dentures. With a gorgeous complete smile that doesn’t slip or cause issues with speech or eating, the wearer is often much more confident.
Book A Consultation For Implant Retained Dentures Today
If you would love secure, natural-feeling dentures that provide you with a stunning smile, better speech and the ability to eat in the way you want to, please speak to us about implant retained dentures today. Please call us on 02076241603 and we will book a consultation for you, where we can check your suitability for treatment and provide you with all the relevant information.
A consultation with Abbey Road Dental is your first step to having an innovative treatment that provides you with the stunning, secure smile you deserve!