Wearing traditional dentures often results in the frustrating challenge of a floating denture—or a denture that won’t stay in place. When artificial teeth don’t fit the contours of your mouth perfectly, they slide around, leading to gum irritation and painful sores. Instability makes everyday activities like speaking and eating more difficult and allows food to get trapped beneath the prosthetic. Chewing tougher foods can also become uncomfortable, resulting in changes in your diet and nutritional intake. With all these drawbacks, traditional dentures often negatively affect a patient’s quality of life!
Thankfully, Bivona Family Dental provides a much more comfortable and stable solution: mini implant retained dentures! These implants keep your restoration secure, ensuring you can smile and live confidently.
What Causes Floating Dentures?
When you lose a tooth, it’s more than just the visible crown above the gumline that’s affected. The root, hidden beneath the gumline and anchored in the jawbone, is also lost. That creates some new challenges since the root has important oral health functions. One of those is providing stimulation to your jawbone.
When you chew or bite, the root transfers pressure to the jawbone, helping to keep it healthy and strong. Unfortunately, that means when you lose a tooth, you also lose this essential bone stimulation. Without it, your jawbone loses mass and volume. Eventually, your facial structure will change, causing sunken cheeks and excessive wrinkling around the mouth.
While traditional dentures do replace your missing crowns, they don’t replace the roots. As your jawbone diminishes and changes shape, your denture will stay the same. The result? An ill-fitting denture. Floating dentures don’t stay secure. Instead, they rest loosely on your gums and shift when you speak, laugh, or chew. The constant rubbing of the prosthetic in your mouth creates irritation and denture sores, making mealtime painful!
So, are there any tooth replacement solutions that stay in place without messy adhesives or frequent adjustments? There are! With mini dental implant retained dentures, we can secure your smile.
We Use Mini Implants To Stabilize Floating Dentures
A dental implant is a titanium post that acts like a tooth root. They not only maintain jawbone health but also secure restorations like dentures! At Bivona Family Dental, we use two popular types of dental implants.
One is a traditional implant, which is about 5 millimeters in diameter and has multiple components. To place these implants, we first make an incision into the gums to reveal the bone beneath. Then, we use a series of larger and larger drills to create a hole that can fit the implant. After carefully securing the implant in place, we then stitch up the gums and wait for them to heal.
Traditional dental implants involve multiple pieces, each placed in stages with healing periods in between, which can extend the overall treatment time. Gradually, the implant integrates fully with the bone, and once healed, we secure your restoration on top. While traditional implants may be ideal in certain cases, many patients find that mini implants offer a more efficient and beneficial solution.
Mini dental implants are less than 3 millimeters in diameter and have only one piece. Their compact size and streamlined design allow for a gentle, efficient placement process. Using a small pilot hole in the gum and bone, we can place the implant without the need for incisions or stitches. Once positioned, the implant is immediately ready to support temporary restorations. These implants securely anchor your denture, much like traditional implants, but with added convenience and benefits.
The Benefits of Mini Dental Implants
Mini dental implants come with many benefits beyond providing a stable foundation for your dentures. These advantages include:
- Small size: Mini implants are less than 3 millimeters, so they need very little bone for successful placement. In contrast, traditional implants require a lot of bone, which makes those with diminished bone density less eligible. The smaller size of mini implants makes them a more accessible tooth replacement option that rarely requires a bone graft.
- One-piece design: Traditional implants have a multi-piece design that creates small seams between parts where bacteria can gather. This increases the risk of infection or peri-implantitis, which can cause the implant to fail. Mini implants significantly reduce this risk due to their single-piece design.
- Immediate results: Because mini implants are immediate loading implants, they can instantly support temporary restorations like dentures. You only need to wear these temporaries for a few months before your implants can anchor your permanent dentures.
- Faster healing: Mini implants require much less healing time due to their minimally invasive process. In just a few months, your implants will be secure enough to support final denture restorations, and if you don’t need any extractions, the healing time will be even faster!
- Affordable price: Because of their one-piece design and fewer appointments, these implants are much more affordable than traditional implants.
Secure Your Smile With Mini Implant Retained Dentures!
You don’t have to settle for the hassle traditional dentures bring. With mini implants, you can say goodbye to floating dentures and hello to a brand-new stable smile! Using these narrow-diameter implants, the dentists at Bivona Family Dental provide comfortable and effective solutions to total tooth loss.
Ready to restore your stable smile? Schedule a free implant consultation to learn if mini implant retained dentures are right for you!
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