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Restoring Your Smile With a Full Mouth of Dental Implants

Full Mouth Dental Implants in Sonora, CA | Free Consultations 🦷

Complete edentulism refers to the loss of all teeth. While adult teeth are meant to last you a lifetime, oral health issues interfere with their longevity. Problems like tooth decay, dental trauma, and gum disease are the typical causes of edentulism, which all result from poor oral hygiene. Without regular brushing, flossing, and routine dental visits, your smile may be at risk for any of these dental issues. If you find yourself facing total tooth loss, you need a fast-acting solution to restore your smile. With a full mouth of dental implants, Dr. Berger can do just that! Using these titanium screws, Dr. Berger in Sonora, CA, can restore your smile, allowing you to live life to the fullest.

Dental Implants 101

Full Mouth Dental Implants in Sonora, CA | Free Consultations 🦷Dental implants are titanium screws that we anchor into your jawbone. Once in your bone, the titanium material bonds with your jaw over time, creating an incredibly stable connection.

Then, using this connection as a foundation, Dr. Berger anchors denture restorations on your implants.

With conventional implants, the placement process takes multiple appointments over several months. Due to their large size and complex placement, many patients aren’t even eligible for conventional implants without additional procedures first.

But at Sonora Dentist, Dr. Berger uses mini dental implants, which provide a faster and less invasive alternative.

Understanding Mini Dental Implants

Mini dental implants are small titanium posts, about half the size of conventional implants. Thanks to their sleek design, mini implants offer incredible benefits to patients like you, including:

  • Less invasive: Mini dental implants require less bone support, allowing most patients to forgo bone grafting procedures. Thanks to their simple placement and sleek design, these implants use a minimally invasive process that doesn’t require any incisions or stitches.
  • Less painful: Due to their minimally invasive procedure, mini implants cause less pain than their conventional counterparts. If anything, the treatment is relatively gentle, creating less post-operative pain as well. If you do experience discomfort, over-the-counter pain medications will help.
  • Less time-consuming: Conventional implants require several months of healing before they can support a restoration. But with mini implants, Dr. Berger places a full mouth of dental implants in one appointment, and typically places your denture the very next day.
  • Less Expensive: Without multiple components to pay for, various appointments, and additional procedures, mini implants cost about half as much as conventional implants.

The Full Mouth Dental Implants Process

The full mouth dental implant process may sound daunting, but mini implants make it simple.

Consultation

First, we begin with a free implant consultation. There, Dr. Berger will assess your jaw and take a 3D digital X-ray. This information allows him to determine whether you’re eligible for mini implant treatment, which most patients are. If so, he’ll create a custom treatment plan, take impressions of your smile, and discuss pricing, insurance, and any available financing.

Placement

During your placement appointment, Dr. Berger will use a local anesthetic to numb your mouth. Additionally, for those who need it, he offers safe sedation dentistry to keep you awake but relaxed throughout the procedure.

Once you’re comfortable, Dr. Berger will make a small pilot hole through your gums and into your jawbone. Then he will gently screw the mini implant into place, where it’s immediately secure enough to support a temporary restoration.

However, if you have a current denture prosthetic in good condition, he may be able to convert it into an implant denture. By adding housings to the denture base and removing the bulky upper denture plate that covers your taste buds, he can effectively alter your denture into a snap-on denture. This prosthetic is fully removable, allowing you to “snap” it on and off your implants with ease.

Restoration

After healing, your implants will be stable enough to support a final denture. While Dr. Berger offers a variety of implant denture options, a snap-in denture is the most similar to a traditional denture, but with implants for stability. With this prosthetic, you can trust that your smile will stay in place, allowing you to speak and chew without hesitation.

Find Full Mouth Dental Implant Solutions in Sonora, CA

If you’re experiencing complete edentulism, or total tooth loss, you need a stable and effective solution. With mini dental implants, Dr. Berger in Sonora, CA, can offer one! With a full mouth of mini dental implants, you can permanently restore your smile with a functional, secure prosthetic.

Book a free implant consultation to learn if implant dentures are the best next step for your smile.

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Dr. Paul Berger

Dr. Paul Berger is the owner and founder of Sonora Dentist located in the beautiful foothill town of Sonora, California. Dr. Berger brings 36 years of experience and a passion for delivering the best quality of dental care for his patients and their families. Dr. Berger has maintained his dental practice in Sonora since 1989. A graduate of Loma Linda School of Dentistry, this Sonora dentist is a member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, San Joaquin Dental Society, the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and Academy of Computerized Dentistry. Dr. Berger has completed hundreds of hours of training at the prestigious Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. Dr. Berger is an avid outdoorsman and pursues the healthy lifestyle he stresses to his patients. Whether hunting, fishing, hiking, flying, skiing or golfing, he sets a high standard for himself by being outdoors and active physically and mentally. A father of six children, grandfather of five grandchildren, and married to his best friend and wife, Kathy, for 39 years, Dr. Berger will give you and your family the quality and service he would give his own loved ones-quite simply, the best he can deliver. Dr. Paul Berger is a well-educated, experienced dentist whose favorite part of dentistry is patient interaction. He has come to regard his patients like family and watched some of his youngest patients grow up with great smiles. If you need a Sonora California dentist, look no further than Dr. Paul Berger and his exceptional team.