Anchor Your Floating Dentures With Mini Implant Solutions

Life is all about balance. A balanced diet keeps you healthy, a balanced budget is responsible, and a good work-life balance is essential to maintain motivation. Even your smile needs balance, especially when you have dentures. While your natural smile has tooth roots to anchor your teeth in place, traditional dentures lack this support. Instead, they rely solely on your gums and bone. Unfortunately, your jawbone makes for a poor foundation, as it tends to lose mass and volume over time without the stimulation of tooth roots. With a shrinking jawbone, your smile loses its perfect balance! The prosthetic will begin shifting around in your mouth while you chew and talk, making everyday function much more difficult. Loose or floating dentures are a common issue that traditional denture wearers face. Fortunately, dental implants help anchor your smile to your jaw, providing a stable solution to tooth loss.

The Consequences of Floating Dentures

Floating dentures are prosthetics that have lost their custom fit to your jaw and gums. A loose fit causes them to slide around in your mouth whenever you move, creating major functional issues. These issues include:

• Chewing difficulties: To break down foods effectively, you need a strong bite. Loose dentures, however, struggle to chew certain foods, typically leading to dietary changes that alter your nutritional intake. In the worst cases, patients may experience malnutrition due to their restricted diet.
• Speaking problems: Clear speech requires the use of your tongue and teeth to form certain words. If your teeth won’t stay in place, it may disrupt your speech and cause your words to slur.
• Infection risks: As your prosthetic lifts up when you chew or speak, food can slide underneath it. If not cleaned, these foods will attract bacteria, potentially leading to infections. These infections may spread, eventually affecting your gum and bone tissue.
• Painful sores: When your restoration slides around on your gum tissue, it irritates your gum tissue, potentially creating painful denture sores.

If you’re experiencing any of these unfortunate consequences, it may be time to find a more stable solution than your floating dentures.

Anchoring Floating Dentures With Mini Implants

While traditional dentures can’t have your natural tooth roots for support, they can use artificial ones!

Dental implants are titanium screws we place in your jawbone to take the place of your tooth roots. Thanks to their titanium makeup, these screws secure in your bone through a process called osseointegration. The biocompatible nature of dental implants enables them to interact with living bone, creating a remarkably stable connection between your jaw and the implants.

However, at Sonora Dentist, we use mini dental implants rather than their conventional counterparts. These small titanium posts are almost half the size of standard implants and have only one component to their structure. Thanks to this sleek design, we’re able to use a minimally invasive procedure to place your mini implants!

By simply creating a small pilot hole in your gums and jaw, we can gently screw your implant in place. Once inside your bone, your implant will immediately begin to stabilize! Amazingly, a fast-acting osseointegration enables patients like you to experience a rapid healing process. In most cases, we secure your final denture restoration the very next day, securing your smile with implants in just 24 hours.

Our Mini Implant Denture Options in Sonora, CA

Sonora Dentist offers three distinct implant denture options. These include:

• Snap-in dentures: Like traditional dentures, this prosthetic is removable. Unlike a traditional denture, however, a snap-in denture is supported by mini implants! Rather than resting directly on your jawbone, these dentures are able to “snap” on and off mini implants for convenient cleaning and maintenance!
• Semi-permanent roundhouse bridges: A roundhouse bridge is a sleek denture that requires less of the traditional bulky denture base. With its horseshoe-shaped design that follows the natural curve of your jaw, this prosthetic creates a much more natural look and feel. A semi-permanent roundhouse bridge is never removed by you; instead, it is only removed by us during routine dental cleanings.
• Permanent roundhouse bridges: Amazingly, permanent roundhouse bridges are even sleeker than semi-permanent dentures, as they need even less of the traditional denture base. In many cases, we can secure a bridge of natural-looking teeth bonded together in a horseshoe shape directly on your implants, forgoing the denture base altogether. Additionally, the bridge is cemented in place, never to be removed. For those looking to replicate their natural teeth as closely as possible, we recommend a permanent roundhouse bridge.

Secure Your Floating Dentures With Mini Implants

Sonora Dentist understands the need for balance, especially with loose or floating dentures. If you have unstable dentures, you don’t need to settle for the problems they bring! Using mini dental implants, we can anchor your smile in place to create a stable solution for tooth loss.

Book a free implant consultation today to discover if mini implant dentures are the right choice for your smile.

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