Lower Implant Dentures Do Away With Traditional Denture Frustrations

If you’re like many people with traditional dentures, you started with the best intentions. You were happy with your dental restoration and fully intended to wear your dentures every day. After all, who doesn’t want a full set of teeth? But over time, you discovered that traditional dentures for your lower jaw weren’t the perfect solution you’d hoped for.

The Problem with Lower Dentures

Traditional dentures are professionally designed and fabricated to fit over the jawbone ridge and, if done correctly, can be comfortable for many people. For others, however, they just don’t fit quite right, or they never become comfortable. Some problems individuals run into with lower dentures include:

• Long adjustment times getting used to the denture, which fits over the gums and can interfere with the tongue.
• The tendency of the lower denture to slip and shift because it doesn’t suction into place on the gums.
• Irritation and sore spots on the delicate gum tissue due to rubbing or food debris caught beneath the denture.
• Having to periodically get lower dentures refitted because the jawbone ridge resorbs or deteriorates due to lack of stimulation because of missing teeth.

Have You Stopped Wearing Your Lower Dentures?

You are not alone if you’ve stopped wearing your lower dentures after months of trying to get used to them. You may only wear them for special occasions or have given up on them entirely. Unfortunately, there are consequences to going without lower dentures. Bone deterioration may accelerate, your face appears more hollow, and you trade the discomfort of dentures with the inability to eat certain foods.

Lower Implant Dentures are the Solution

The Denture Center understands that some of our patients never get used to traditional lower dentures, so we offer implant supported dentures for the lower jaw. Lower implant dentures solve all the potential problems experienced with adjusting to and wearing conventional dentures that sit on top of the gums.

Lower implant dentures are permanently attached to dental implants surgically placed in the jawbone to provide stable support for the arch of replacement teeth. The implant dentures can either be permanently attached using abutments or snap onto bars or balls so that they can be removed for cleaning.

Both options result in lower dentures that do not shift, move, or irritate the gums. You can eat anything you like without worrying about debris getting caught under lower implant dentures, and you do not have to remove them at night. In fact, they look, function, and feel like your natural teeth. Because lower implant dentures are precisely fitted and fastened to implants, they do not interfere with your tongue and are less bulky for greater comfort.

If you have stopped wearing your lower denture because it is uncomfortable or annoying, don’t resign yourself to going without teeth. Lower implant dentures can give you back a complete set of functional, attractive lower teeth without the hassle, discomfort, or disappointment of traditional dentures.