If you are considering replacing your dentures with implants, it is well worth considering at all on 4 dental implants. They offer several advantages over traditional implants, which makes them well worth choosing.
Less Anchor Points Means Faster Fitting
With most replacement tooth systems, several visits to a dentist are necessary. The layout of your existing teeth and palette needs to be noted and in some cases mapped. Your dentist needs to do this to assess your suitability for the replacement teeth you are considering having fitted. If you opt for dentures castings of your mouth, need to be taken to ensure a good fit.
However, if you are going down the implants route the dentist just needs to work out if you are a viable candidate. They need to check for gum disease and other infections. Most people can have implants fitted, but the dentist needs to be sure that they can carry out the necessary work safely and that the implants will take properly and remain stable in your mouth.
When dental implants were first invented, each tooth had its own peg. This meant drilling a hole for each tooth and inserting a peg for every tooth. As you can imagine this process takes a lot of time and there is quite a bit of swelling. Using this technique means people have to go home with a set of pegs in their mouth. After a week or two, they can return to the dentist and have the pegs capped with their tooth implants.
With all on 4 dental implants there is no delay. An entire set of upper or lower teeth can be fixed permanently to the gum using just four pegs for each set, i.e. four pegs for the upper set and four for the lower set. This means that the teeth can be installed along with the pegs. You can leave the dentist with a full set of teeth after just a few hours. They are just as secure and durable as single tooth implants and look just as good, so are a great choice if you want a new set of teeth.
