YOU'RE HERE: Home > Implant Treatments > Implant Supported Dentures

Implant Treatments

Implant Supported Dentures

Over time, as you wear your dentures, you lose the bony structure that supports your soft tissue. Because your soft tissue actually makes contact with your dentures, this too will start to recede with the bone, leaving you in a constant state of adjustment, discomfort, and difficulty with everyday functions like speaking, chewing, and especially smiling. Denture stabilisation through implant supported dentures is a solution to this problem.

What is Denture Stabilisation?

Denture stabilisation is yet another means by which implants can improve your overall dental functionality enormously. Small titanium posts, with ball-shaped heads into a retaining fixture in the base of the dentures, which acts like a socket. These mini-implants serve in the same way as the natural roots of the teeth. When the dentures are seated, the retaining fixture snaps over the ball-shaped heads of the implants, holding the dentures in place securely.

Such implant supported dentures have several benefits:

Provide tremendous support and fixation so you can speak, chew, and smile comfortably.
Keep your upper and lower jaw bone from receding, which prevents facial shape changes (such as the 'shrunken' look).
Perfect option for patients with dentures who do not want to go through the expense required for individual tooth implants.

After having your implants placed, your dentures will be adjusted to attach to the implants. Even patients with some bone loss can benefit from implant supported dentures. In one simple procedure, all the discomfort of dentures can be eliminated.

There is overwhelming evidence that stabilised dentures should be the first choice standard of care for denture wearers.