It has been almost 8 months & all I have so far is an over sized denture screwed onto my gums. My first mistake was paying cash upfront. He is young around 36 & apparently doesn’t know what he he is doing. This dentist has been nothing but problems for me & won’t listen to anything I tell him. I thought zirconia was impossible to break. He keeps telling me they have to be that way to to keep from breaking. I hate these teeth because they are lots bigger than the dentures even & makes my upper lip look as if I had fillers put in. I paid upfront for the zirconia teeth, which he insisted I pay everything up front. The bottoms are not quite so large, but do come back way far behind the teeth & the front gum again is at the lip & gum line. The gum part covers about about a fourth or fifth of the upper palette & comes all the way up where my gum & upper lip meet. Just last week he put in my temporary teeth. Then it was another 2 months after calling him numerous times he finally did the 30 minute wax try ins & said they were perfect, although they didn’t feel perfect & 8 told him they didn’t feel right. When I would call to see him, he would see me in the office, (like where he has his desk & paper work).He didnt get any kind of scan, but when he went to put in the abutments there was so much bone overgrowth he had to remove bone to find the implants. for about 5 months when he did the abutments. I was never able to get the upper & lower dentures in together. Then I was given dentures that didn’t even fit my mouth. For some reason my mouth would not stay numb more than 20 minutes, so I was crying in agony & had to come back for the lower implants with the same issue occurring. He also had to do bone graphs on practically every implant & also did a sinus lift. First he extracted all my teeth, with only local anesthetic & then did the upper implants. I went to a local dentist who told me he could do implants much cheaper than a well known dentist in Va. An overdenture may be upgraded in the future to a fixed bridge.īottom line… A fixed bridge is the best and an overdenture is meant for people that already have dentures.ĭiplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology /Implant Dentistryįellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry The fixed bridge is the best long term solution and requires very little maintenance. If you are missing all of your teeth, a CT scan is almost always necessary to have a safe surgery. These are things I can only determine by evaluating you in person. Depending on your situation, bone grafting or bone leveling may be necessary. You typically need more bone and more implants to make a solid fixed bridge than an overdenture. Your face and lips can end up looking too bulky or caved in if this is not determined in the photographic assessment before anything is done. This is often overlooked by your average dentist. The position of your lips and how much space you have between your top ad bottom teeth is CRITICAL. What is right for you? It really depends on what you want, your budget, and how much bone you have.
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I do not commonly recommended over dentures for the upper unless there is extreme circumstances usually related to facial skin support. Over dentures are far better for the lower jaw that they are for the upper jaw. If you are missing a lot of gum and bone than more pink ceramic will need to be added to give you proper facial lip support. Having that little triangle of gum between the teeth makes all the difference when you smile. This will make it so the teeth don’t look too long and square. If you are missing a little bit of gum, I usually make pink ceramic porcelain near your natural gum line. More recent advances allow fixed Bridges to be made out of solid zirconia such as a Prettau style dental implant bridge. Hence the name “porcelain fused to metal.” Because they have gold they are very strong compared to their overdenture counterpart. Some fixed bridges have a gold substructure underneath them. It does not make them smaller or feel more natural. Overdentures can be made with porcelain teeth, but that only makes the dentures look better. The teeth “emerge” from the gums and are not plastic like dentures. You will not have anything touching the roof of your mouth going over your gums with a fixed bridge. Unlike dentures that have pink acrylic and plastic teeth, fixed bridges are porcelain fused to metal or monolithic zirconia such as the Prettau dental implant bridge. Fixed bridges are cemented or screwed to the implants and cannot be removed by you.
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