Dr. Mustapha Hotait on removable implant dentures
Removable implant dentures are dentures that are secured to the jaw with dental implants and they allow the patients to kind of, you know, eat different foods that maybe they can’t chew on with regular dentures. They also kind of give the patients the retention that usually it’s missing with a conventional denture and they don’t need to rely on any adhesive to hold them in place. It’s still easy to kind of remove in and out of the mouth when they need to.
It gets us as close as possible to what the patients used to have before they lost their teeth or before their teeth got compromised, meaning they’re able to function as close as possible to their own dentition eating foods that they maybe weren’t able to eat at a certain point. It also gives them kind of the security that, you know, there’s something there that’s fixed in that doesn’t move around that is secure. Also, another benefit is it allows them to taste the foods that they eat because there is no barrier over the roof of the mouth.
Also, they’re not as big as dentures. They’re a lot smaller and also when it comes to speech and talking, because they’re secure and they’re fixed in, the tongue kind of moves a lot more freely than with a denture that kind of usually has a tendency to move around with the tongue, you know, movement. As far as the procedure itself, what the procedure is involved is the placements of dental implants in either the upper or the lower jaw.
From there, we secure a kind of a fixed bridge of ceramic or titanium fused to ceramic on those implants and they become fixed in at that point.
