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For some patients, getting dental implants to replace their teeth just isn’t an option. This could be because of health issues, like a systemic disease that makes dental implantation impossible, or it could be a personal aversion to oral surgery or having foreign materials in their body. These patients can be sure that dental implants are not the only way to replace a missing tooth, and other options for tooth replacement exist, albeit with a twist. Read on to find out what can be done instead of getting dental implants.

The incredible popularity of dental implant mounted denture stabilization is changing the way dental implant manufacturers are thinking of their industry. Using four small diameter dental implants to stabilize dentures to the lower jaw have become a quite normal and routine thing to do, and are now gaining popularity like never before. Because of this, special dental implants, ones that are even more adept at fulfilling their task have been manufactured.

The most common and most popular way to stabilize a denture is to affix them to dental implants. These dental implants are usually inserted into the jaw bone in the manner and place where regular dental implants are inserted. To replace an entire arch of teeth, a patient needs to get four implants. A bridge that covers all of your teeth will be made, with four insertion sites that connect to the dental implants in the jaw. This way, the entire arch of teeth is stabilized, and the result is the same as having a denture, except instead of having the bridge be fixed in some type of resin or other artificial gum, it is housed in dental implants that connect to the jaw.

Dentures are rows of artificial teeth. When most of a row or all of a row is replaced, the product is considered a denture, but the line between what is a large bridge and a partial denture is arbitrary and meaningless. You can choose to think of everyone crown as a partial denture, but it is not very practical. Usually, the word “denture” is reserved for when most of the teeth are missing.

HI there, I am Dawn, and I have a very unique problem. My dentures are making me gag! It’s not all the time, but if I just speak, eventually if I try to make glottal sounds, it feels like someone is sticking their hand down there! What do I do to stop this from happening? Any help is much appreciated!

Dentistry, and specifically the branches of dentistry that deal with dental prostheses is full of little gadgets and knick knacks that seem to have a very large overlapping areas, the same thing is done with a slightly different name and gets to be treated (and priced) like a whole different prosthesis altogether. A great example of this is the partial denture versus bridge debate. At what point is a partial denture a bridge? Why is a bridge so much more expensive than a partial denture?