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Restoring Function and Confidence with Prosthesis

Missing teeth can significantly impact your oral health and overall quality of life. Prostheses, such as dentures, bridges, and implants, are designed to replace missing teeth and restore the function and aesthetics of your smile.

How Prostheses Can Improve Your Life

  • Improved Chewing and Speaking: Prostheses help you chew food properly, improving digestion and nutrition. They also aid in clear speech and pronunciation.
  • Enhanced Aesthetics: Replacing missing teeth with prostheses can enhance your smile and boost your self-confidence.
  • Preservation of Jawbone: Prostheses, particularly implants, help stimulate the jawbone and prevent bone loss, which can occur when teeth are missing.
  • Support for Facial Structure: Prostheses provide support for facial muscles, preventing a sunken or aged appearance.
  • Improved Oral Health: By replacing missing teeth, prostheses can help prevent remaining teeth from shifting and becoming misaligned.

Types of Prosthetics

Traditional Dentures

In-office dental restorations utilize advanced technology to design, fabricate, and place dental restorations, such as crowns, inlays, and onlays, within a single appointment. This streamlined approach eliminates the traditional waiting period associated with lab-fabricated restorations, offering patients unparalleled convenience and efficiency. By using digital scanners, CAD/CAM software, and in-office milling units, dentists can create precise and durable restorations while the patient waits, significantly reducing the overall treatment time and enhancing the patient experience.

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Sliding Dentures

Sliding dentures, sometimes called "precision attachment dentures" or "snap-on dentures," offer a more stable and secure alternative to traditional dentures. Unlike conventional dentures that rely solely on suction or adhesives, sliding dentures use special attachments that connect to remaining natural teeth or dental implants. These attachments act like anchors, providing a more secure and comfortable fit. This allows for improved chewing efficiency and reduces the worry of dentures slipping or moving during speech and eating. Sliding dentures often provide a more natural feel and appearance compared to traditional dentures.

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Traditional Fixed Prosthesis

Traditional fixed prostheses, often referred to as "bridges" or "dental bridges," are a time-tested solution for replacing missing teeth. They consist of artificial teeth that are anchored to adjacent natural teeth, literally "bridging" the gap created by missing teeth. These prostheses are typically made from a metal framework covered with tooth-colored porcelain, providing both strength and a natural appearance. While they offer a reliable and durable option for restoring smiles and chewing function, they require the preparation of the adjacent teeth, which involves removing some of their natural structure.

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Full Arch

Full arch rehabilitation is a comprehensive approach to restoring the entire mouth, not just individual teeth. It addresses complex dental issues like extensive tooth loss, severe wear, bite problems, and jaw pain. This treatment involves a combination of procedures, including dental implants, crowns, bridges, and even orthodontics, to rebuild the entire upper or lower arch of teeth. The goal is to restore proper function, improve aesthetics, and create a healthy, balanced bite for long-term oral health and comfort.

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Maryland Bridge

Maryland bridges, also known as "resin-bonded bridges" or "adhesive bridges," offer a minimally invasive approach to replacing missing teeth. Unlike traditional bridges that require significant preparation of adjacent teeth, Maryland bridges utilize metal or porcelain "wings" that are bonded to the back surfaces of the neighboring teeth. This preserves more of the natural tooth structure and often requires less enamel removal. Maryland bridges are typically used for replacing front teeth where biting forces are less intense. They provide a natural-looking solution and are a popular choice for patients seeking a more conservative approach to tooth replacement.

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Implant-Free Solutions

While dental implants are a popular and effective solution for missing teeth, they're not the only option. Implant-free solutions offer alternatives for those who may not be suitable candidates for implants or prefer other approaches. These options include bridges, which attach artificial teeth to adjacent natural teeth, and dentures, which are removable appliances that replace multiple missing teeth. While these solutions may not offer the same level of permanence as implants, they can effectively restore smiles, improve chewing function, and prevent further dental problems.

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Screw-Retained Prosthesis

Screw-retained prostheses are a type of dental restoration attached to implants using screws. These prostheses, which can be single crowns, bridges, or even full-arch dentures, offer several advantages. The screw connection provides a secure and stable fit, allowing for easy removal and maintenance by the dentist if needed. This design also facilitates easier cleaning around the implant and restoration, promoting better oral hygiene and reducing the risk of complications. Screw-retained prostheses are known for their durability and long-term success in restoring function and aesthetics to patients with missing teeth.

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Bar-Retained Dentures

Bar-retained dentures offer a more stable and secure alternative to traditional full dentures for patients who have lost all their teeth. Instead of relying solely on suction or adhesives, these dentures attach to a custom-made metal bar that is supported by dental implants placed in the jawbone. This bar provides a strong and stable foundation for the denture, allowing for improved chewing function and confidence while speaking and eating. Bar-retained dentures offer a comfortable and reliable solution for restoring a complete smile and improving quality of life.

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