Your smile is a significant aspect of how the world sees you, so gaps in your smile can hit your self-confidence and have physical repercussions. If you miss eating your favorite foods, avoid smiling, and skip activities you formerly enjoyed, our caring and skilled dentists can help. At Zenith Dental and Implant Center, we offer high-quality yet affordable snap-on dentures in Davenport, FL. No matter how many teeth you’ve lost, implant dentures will transform your smile and restore your oral function and confidence!
Snap-on dentures, also called overdentures, implant dentures, or snap-in dentures, provide a middle ground if you’re worried about conventional dentures slipping and irritating your gums and aren’t quite ready for full mouth dental implants. Snap-on dentures look identical to traditional dentures at first glance. Underneath the plate are unique locators that snap or clip onto a minimal number of fixed dental implants. When you press down onto the prosthesis, it slips into a clipped position onto the implant abutments.
Implant dentures eliminate messy adhesives while alleviating or significantly reducing slippage, gum irritation, and speech issues. Furthermore, dental implants assume the role of your missing tooth roots to help prevent bone deterioration, jaw shrinkage, and undesirable facial changes. The main thing to remember is if you decide to get implant dentures in Davenport, FL, the prosthesis must be removed at night and cleaned routinely, just like conventional dentures.
During your consultation for implant-supported dentures in Davenport, FL, our team will determine if any decayed or damaged teeth must be extracted and if you need a bone graft to create a strong foundation for your dental implants.
In addition to an oral exam, we use our cone-beam computed tomography scanner to assess the condition of your underlying jawbone and the position of nerves and sinuses to plan precision implant surgery. We’ll discuss several options, the timeline, and costs to help you make an informed decision.
We use a local anesthetic and sedation dentistry to ensure your procedure is as comfortable as possible during dental implant surgery. Small incisions are made in your gum tissue in predetermined locations, the implants are placed in your jaw bone, and the gum tissue is sutured closed.
Dental implants take 3-6 months to integrate with your underlying bone. You’ll wear a healing denture while you wait for your implants to integrate. After the fusion process, we’ll take impressions of your upper and lower dental arches and send them to a specialized dental lab to fabricate your new dentures. When you return to Zenith Dental and Implant Center, we’ll demonstrate how to snap on, remove, and clean your denture and discuss proper oral hygiene practices.
