When building a house, what is the most important factor to consider? Is it the thickness of the walls? The tiles in the kitchen floor? Usually, the most important factor to building anything is a good foundation. Building your house on solid concrete vs. building on shifting sand makes a world of difference regarding stability. The same is true for your dentures! Traditional dentures—much like a house on sand—rely on the ever-shifting foundation that is your jawbone. Unfortunately, this results in major instability issues, potentially negatively affecting your quality of life. Fortunately, St. Apollonia Dental has a solution! We provide snap-in dentures, secured by mini dental implants! Dental implants are the reliable foundation for snap-in dentures, allowing you to smile and live securely.
The Importance of Jawbone Density
When you lose a tooth, you lose both the crown and the root. While crowns are visible above the gum line in your smile, tooth roots do a lot of important work below the gum line. These roots are embedded into the jawbone to both keep your smile secure and to promote jawbone health!
When you chew or bite with your natural teeth, the roots press into your jawbone, stimulating it to keep it healthy and dense. When you lose teeth, you also lose the roots, allowing your jawbone to go unstimulated. Over time, your jawbone will lose mass and volume, changing the shape of your bone structure. Unfortunately, a shrinking jawbone doesn’t make for a very stable foundation, resulting in loose dentures! Ill-fitting dentures create many problems for patients, making it more difficult to chew and talk! The prosthetic often slides around your mouth, creating painful denture sores and getting food stuck underneath.
So, what is the solution? To restore the crowns of your smile and the roots, you need dental implants! These titanium posts work as artificial tooth roots, stimulating the jawbone while you chew and securing a beautiful set of pearly whites.
At St. Apollonia Dental, we offer two types of dental implants. Conventional dental implants are larger, and work better for patients with softer bone. In contrast, mini dental implants work better for those with less jawbone structure available, as they are much smaller in size! At your free consultation, we will perform a comprehensive exam and take X-rays to discover which implant would benefit your smile most.
To secure snap-in dentures, we use mini implants for their wonderful benefits.
The Benefits of Snap-In Dentures
Implant supported restorations like snap-in dentures provide many advantages for patients like you that traditional dentures just can’t. These benefits include:
- Faster healing: The conventional implant-supported denture process takes around 4-6 months, as the implants need a long healing period to stabilize in your jawbone. Mini implant dentures—like a snap-in denture—can be done in weeks, as these implants are instantly secure enough to secure a temporary restoration after placement. Additionally, these dentures tend to be cheaper than conventional implant dentures due to the affordability of mini implants!
- More stability: Unlike traditional dentures, snap-in dentures remain secure in your mouth over time, as they are held in place. Mini implants are important anchors, keeping the restoration stable while you chew, talk, and even laugh! With snap-on dentures, you can smile securely.
- Stronger bite: Because of the strong retention mini dental implants provide a snap-in denture, your chewing ability improves! Implant dentures like snap-ins allow you to eat foods you couldn’t chew through with traditional dentures, such as tough meats or hard vegetables.
- Healthier jawbone: Dental implants act as artificial tooth roots, stimulating your jawbone when you bite or chew. While your snap-in denture may not rely on your jawbone like a traditional denture would, keeping your bone healthy is still incredibly important! A healthy jawbone prevents the common consequences of bone loss, like excessive wrinkling, sunken cheeks, and an altered facial structure. With snap-in dentures, you can keep both your smile and jawbone stable!
Experience the Difference in Stability With Snap-In Dentures!
Traditional dentures aren’t made with a strong foundation in mind, therefore they aren’t made to last. However, snap-in dentures secured by mini implants, are built to stay in place for years to come! Mini implants remain stable in your jaw, creating a reliable foundation for your beautiful new smile. With these implant dentures you can live life securely, knowing that your restoration isn’t going anywhere!
Book a free consultation at St. Apollonia Dental in Sterling Heights, MI, today to learn if snap-in dentures are right for you!
