06 Jan Supporting A New Smile With Four Dental Implants
When you have lost most or all of your teeth, your oral health can suffer, and you could develop an older appearance. But we can offer a full smile with only four dental implant posts and a set of new teeth! Our team at our dental implant center in Stillwater, OK, explains how All-On-Four can provide a full smile in only one visit.
How All-On-Four Works
How does All-On-Four work? With traditional dental implant dentures, you would need between six and eight implant posts per arch. If your jaw has weakened due to tooth loss, it may not be able to support them, and you could require grafting or a sinus lift beforehand. There could also be a long waiting period of weeks or months in between the placement of the post and the attachment of your dentures. But with All-On-Four, we take a different approach. We insert only four small and unique posts per arch, with no need to fortify the jaw beforehand. We then attach a new set of custom teeth in the same visit, so you leave with a complete smile! No dentures, and no need for a lengthy waiting period.
Preparing Your Smile for Placement
To get started, we will numb your smile and may need to gently extract the last few teeth from the jaw. Next, our team will take detailed digital images of the smile so we can choose the best angle, position, and depth to insert the post, ensuring they can stimulate jawbone growth and support a new set of teeth for years to come, possibly decades! When the time comes for placement, we will again offer anesthesia and sedation to ensure you are comfortable as we insert the post into the jaw surgically. Then in the same visit, we will complete your smile!
Attaching Custom Teeth
We will have taken images and impressions during previous visits to design and craft your new set of teeth, which are lifelike in appearance and able to support daily bite forces and pressures. Which means when we place your new posts, in the same visit we will connect the new teeth to them so you can leave with a full smile, one that looks great and functions like natural teeth too. If you have any questions about how we address advanced or total tooth loss, or if you want to get started now so 2025 is the year you obtain a full smile, then contact our team.
OUR STILLWATER, OK, DENTAL IMPLANT CENTER TREATS YOUR TOOTH LOSS
You deserve a complete smile, and we can offer this in one visit! To schedule a consultation and get started, give us a call at our Stillwater, OK, implant dentistry center at (405) 624-1300 or (800) 352-8685!