Loose lips might sink ships, but loose dentures will disrupt the dinner party. Snap-on dentures are here to stop the slip and keep the party going.
It’s not just annoying to have your dentures fall out of your mouth when you talk, eat, or smile. It also takes a toll on your health and well-being. When you’re unable to eat a wide variety of foods, your nutrition can take a hit. And if you’re struggling with embarrassment about slipping dentures and difficulty speaking, you might avoid social situations.
Fortunately, snap-on dentures offer a way to keep your dentures in place, making it easier to chew food, speak, and smile with confidence. And you don’t have to wait months and months to achieve the stability you deserve. We can often use mini dental implants to stabilize your existing dentures in a single visit, restoring your bite force without a long wait. If you’re looking to upgrade your dentures and want to know what options are available, snap-on dentures are worth considering!
The Problem With Traditional Dentures
You likely invested in traditional dentures that were custom-fit to your mouth. This makes it even more surprising and frustrating when they slip or fall out of your mouth.
To add to the frustration, you may notice that as you try to get used to them, they fit worse over time, not better. Why is fit such an issue with traditional dentures?
A key culprit of poorly fitting dentures is bone loss. When someone with all their natural teeth eats, their tooth roots transmit chewing forces that stimulate the jawbone. This pressure helps the bone stay strong. But once you lose teeth, your jawbone misses out on this healthy stress and starts to shrink. This process is called bone resorption. At this point, you’ll start to notice that the fit of your denture is progressively worsening.
When traditional dentures slip, it makes it difficult to eat hard foods and disrupts your natural speech patterns. Between these two significant limitations, traditional dentures can undermine your confidence in social settings, leaving you feeling isolated.
When we secure dentures with dental implants, you’ll enjoy restored bite strength and clearer speech. Implant dentures renew confidence in your smile, alleviating worries that your denture will slip out of your mouth. Soon, you’ll be back to enjoying gatherings and sharing meals with the people you care about!
How Snap-On Dentures Stabilize Your Bite
When traditional dentures are too much of a pain, it’s time to consider snap-on dentures. At Keider, DDS, we often use mini dental implants to anchor loose dentures.
Implant-retained dentures restore bite forces and offer the added benefit of preventing further bone resorption because the implants replace your missing tooth roots. We can even convert existing dentures to snap-on dentures if they’re still in good condition. And if you like being able to remove your traditional denture, we have good news: you can still remove a snap-in denture for cleaning and maintenance.
While they may sound intimidating at first, placing mini dental implants causes minimal stress to your gums and bone. The mini implant denture process is much less invasive than other implant procedures and requires less bone than traditional implants. That’s why most patients are candidates for mini implants, even if they were told they don’t have enough bone for conventional implants or can’t tolerate complex oral surgery.
To position a mini implant, Dr. Keider makes a small hole through the gums and guides the implant into the bone. The denture itself snaps on and off the implants with rubber O-rings. This system keeps the denture stable while you’re wearing it, while also allowing easy removal.
A significant benefit of mini implant procedures is that we can typically attach your restoration the same day we place the dental implant. This means there’s little downtime between implant placement and actually wearing your denture and chewing food.
After just one visit, you can leave behind sticky adhesives and the frustration of limited chewing. With a stronger bite and more stability, you’ll be able to enjoy a wider variety of foods and feel more comfortable eating with others.
Stop the Slip: Upgrade to Snap-On Dentures Today
Snap-on dentures are a major upgrade over traditional dentures. They expand the foods you can eat, make it easier to talk, and help you enjoy social settings with renewed confidence. With mini dental implants, Dr. Keider can use a minimally invasive technique to secure your denture, giving you a stable bite without extensive healing time.
Dr. Keider is excited to apply his decades of experience providing quality dentistry to upgrade your dentures at our Winston-Salem office! If you want to exit the slippery slope of traditional dentures, schedule a consultation today to start your snap-on denture journey.
