Dental Implants have provided a long awaited solution for Denture Wearers who suffer from Loose and Uncomfortable Dentures.
Combining Dental Implants with Well-fitting Dentures will allow:
- A significant increase in your ability to chew foods that you would otherwise be unable to do so with conventional dentures.
- No more need for messy and sticky Denture Adhesives.
In fact, the John Hopkins Univertisity published an article stating that of the ’10 Most Important Health Recommendations’, No. 4 was to Use Dental Implants instead of (conventional) Dentures.
When comparing the average person’s chewing pressure who has their own teeth, to those who wear conventional dentures:
- Typical forces (pressure) for someone with their own teeth might be around 150-200 pounds/square inch (psi).
- However for those who wear well fitting dentures are only able to generate around 50psi of chewing pressure.
- And for someone who has been wearing denture for over 15 years, it has been shown that the chewing pressure decrease to as low around 6 psi.
Fortunately Implant retained Dentures (also called Implant Overdentures) allow patients to chew with as much as 60% of the force compared to a person with their own teeth. Therefore a denture wearer of over 15 years could expect to regain chewing forces in the vicinity of 120psi !…. This is compared to 6psi.
Therefore those who upgrade their denture with dental implants would find it to be a life changing event. This is because with Dental Implant retained dentures it would mean the difference between being able to eat only a soft-food diet, to being able to eat whatever you want.
Imagine the health benefits if with Dental Implant Dentures you to could now eat a more healthy diet – fruits, vegetable and foods high in fibre.
It is also recommended that patients with advanced gum disease (also known as, periodontal disease) have their condition treated and any teeth that are beyond treatment to be removed. If Periodontal Disease is not treated, it has now been shown that this can also have an adverse effect on other aspects of our health, such as heart disease and diabetes.
Before Dental Implants, many people might put off having teeth affected by gum disease in the lower jaw removed because of the thought of battling with a traditional Lower Denture. However now, with Dental Implants, Dentures can be stabilised and retained with as little as 2 implants for a Lower Implant Overdenture.
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