Dental implants are fairly common today, especially for the person who just wants to replace one or a few missing teeth. Instead of a partial denture, many people opt for a dental implant that involves a post that runs into the jawbone with a false tooth attached on top. It’s a permanent way to replace one missing tooth or just a few throughout the mouth. But for people who wear dentures, implants are more common today, as well.
Upper dentures typically stay in better because of the suction against the upper palate. Lower dentures have nothing to grip onto and simply rest on top of the gum line. If that gum ridge isn’t very pronounced, it doesn’t give the denture is very much to grab onto. That can cause them to slip or come loose and make chewing very difficult. That can also keep a person from smiling very confidently because of fear of the dentures moving and drawing attention to the fact that they’re wearing false teeth.
Denture implants can help with this by holding the dentures firmly in place. One type of implant is called a bar attached denture implant. This implant involves three or more posts that run down into the gum into the jawbone and attached permanently. On the top of these posts, on the parts that protrude from the gum, a bar of metal rests there that runs in the same line as the gums. The dentures then rest on top of that bar which will hold them in place far better than the slightly lower gum line instead of snapping onto steel studs like ball-retained denture implants do.
These types of dental implants are the ideal solution for someone who doesn’t want to have individual teeth implanted but wants to be able to wear their lower dentures with more confidence. It can also eliminate problems people have with loose dentures that makes them rub the gums raw and makes chewing painful. For these reasons, and many more, many people decide it is well worth the financial cost of denture implants, as well as the time it takes to go through the denture implants procedure.