When you receive a custom-designed denture to replace your lost teeth and rebuild your dental ridge, it can feel like getting a brand-new smile. With advanced imaging and design technologies, along with highly lifelike and customizable dental materials, your dentist can create a restoration that closely mimics the size, shape, appearance, and function of your healthy, natural teeth. However, conventional denture designs lack a critical component of your natural teeth and bite function – the roots that supported them and stabilized them. For many people, the overall function and quality of their dentures can be significantly boosted with help from a series of dental implant posts.
Make it more stable when you bite and chew
The stability of your denture is something that relies on its supportive system, rather than the quality of its material or its lifelike appearance. For conventional dentures, this involves utilizing the natural curvature of your upper or lower dental ridge to create the tension necessary to keep the restoration firmly in place. Safe, biocompatible adhesive may also be used for enhanced support. However, dental implant posts give your denture a series of anchors that mimic the way healthy roots support and stabilize your natural teeth. This means your denture will feel more stable whenever you bite and chew with it, allowing you to comfortably enjoy a wider variety of foods.
Allow it to integrate with your dental ridge
When dental implant posts are placed within your dental ridge, they’re designed for your jawbone to fuse to their biocompatible titanium surfaces as it heals. This integration, known as osseointegration, is the key to how dental implants work. They become semi-permanent parts of your oral anatomy, and create a vital connection between your denture and your dental ridge. This connection allows your denture to stimulate your jawbone through the implant posts when you bite and chew. Restoring this stimulation is also the only way to prevent the loss of mass and density in your jawbone that follows the loss of one or more teeth roots.
Stop it from shifting over time
When your denture doesn’t have root-like anchors to support it, it can gradually lose the grip for which it was originally designed. This can be due to both the natural wear of your restoration as you bite and chew with it over the years, as well as the changing shape of your dental ridge as it loses mass and density following the loss of your teeth roots. Dental implant posts can improve your denture by preventing this in two important ways. They provide anchors for your denture that act like natural roots, and they stimulate your jawbone to prevent it from losing mass and density.
Learn if dental implants can improve your denture
Modern, custom-designed dentures are more lifelike than ever, and with the help of dental implants, you can further improve their overall quality and function. To learn more, schedule a consultation by calling the Dental Centre of Conroe in Conroe, TX, today at (936) 441-4600. We serve patients from Conroe and all neighboring communities.
Make Your Appointment
Read Our Reviews