Total tooth loss makes eating the foods you love a significant challenge. While traditional dentures do replace your teeth, they are also meant to stay secure in your mouth and improve chewing ability. Unfortunately, they often fall short of that promise. In fact, many who wear traditional dentures report problems with biting, chewing, pain while eating, reduced flavor perception, and a limited food choice. Thankfully, Dr. Zirakian provides an alternative to dentures using mini dental implants. These posts create a stable foundation, strong enough to eat the foods you love again! Using mini implants, Dr. Zirakian anchors a snap-on denture in place, helping patients like you have the smiles they deserve! Trust East Longmeadow Family Dental Center with your dental care for a functional and beautiful smile.
The Limitations of Traditional Dentures
When people think of dentures, traditional ones are often the first to come to mind. These dentures have two forms, depending on your needs.
An upper traditional denture is a big plastic puck that covers the roof of your mouth, with an upper arch of teeth attached. Thanks to saliva in your mouth, your denture plate suctions to your upper palate. Unfortunately, this plate is often uncomfortable in your mouth and blocks the taste buds of your upper palate, preventing you from tasting the foods and drinks you love!
Lower traditional dentures rest on your jawbone and are made to fit the contours of your mouth perfectly. However, they don’t fit for long.
A natural tooth has two main sections: the crown, which rests above your gumline, and the root, which lies below. Unfortunately, these dentures only replace the crown, leaving your new set of pearly whites without a root!
Your tooth root is embedded into the jawbone, stimulating it every time you chew or bite. When you lose a tooth, you lose this stimulation, causing your jawbone to shrink, losing mass and volume. Bone resorption disrupts the stability of your denture, as it no longer fits perfectly on your gums and jawbone. This causes many problems, including denture sores, difficulty chewing, and food getting trapped below the denture.
These issues make mealtime significantly more difficult for those with traditional dentures. Chewing tougher foods is often painful, so many will change their diets to eat comfortably. However, a change in diet often results in missing important nutrients and losing the ability to eat what you love. So, who has a better, more stable solution? Dr. Zirakian at East Longmeadow Family Dental Center restores smiles using snap-on dentures secured by mini dental implants!
The Benefits of a Snap-On Denture
Snap-on dentures are the most similar kind of implant denture to traditional ones, as you can remove them any time and pop them back in place just as easily. However, that is where their similarities end! Snap-on dentures provide many incredible benefits that traditional ones just can’t. These benefits include:
- Increased stability: Mini implants secure your restoration in place, ensuring that your prosthetic no longer slips on your gums. With this stability, you won’t have to suffer denture sores or embarrassing mishaps. Your teeth stay firmly in place, providing you with the confidence to smile proudly!
- Better flavor perception: Because the mini dental implants anchor your denture, it stays in place. As you no longer need suction to keep your upper denture in place, your tastebuds can be free! This allows you to fully enjoy your favorite foods and drinks again!
- More food options: Snap-on dentures are incredibly secure, so you can chew the foods you love without fear of pain or discomfort. This security allows for better chewing ability, so you can eat the tough foods you have been missing out on with traditional dentures.
With snap-on dentures, you can say goodbye to the stress and instability of traditional dentures! Mini implant-retained dentures will keep you smiling and eating freely, but only if you care for them properly. Just like natural teeth, you need to brush and floss your implant dentures. It is also important to visit East Longmeadow Family Dental Center for routine checkups to ensure the health of your smile!
Enjoy Eating Again With a Snap-On Denture!
Dr. Zirakian believes you shouldn’t have to sacrifice eating the foods you love or change your diet to restore your smile. He provides snap-on dentures as a stronger, more stable alternative, allowing you to eat and taste foods you couldn’t with traditional dentures. Don’t let the limitations of traditional dentures control you or your diet!
Schedule a free consultation and complimentary exam today at East Longmeadow Family Dental Center to restore your ability to enjoy the foods you love!
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