Dental Implants Stabilize Your Smile
Are you missing out on life because of missing teeth or loose dentures? When you don’t have normal, comfortable tooth function and a full smile, it’s difficult to eat a healthy, satisfying diet and often embarrassing to interact with others. As you lose teeth, the underlying bone can begin to recede, ultimately giving you an unhealthy, aged appearance. Dr. Kenneth Ackley is here to help you regain a healthy and confident life with implant supported dentures in Lansing, MI. Traditional dentures require suction or unreliable adhesives for support. Implant supported dentures stay in your mouth with dental implants that are fixed in your jawbone by an oral and maxillofacial surgeon or a periodontist. A highly skilled cosmetic dentist, Dr. Ackley has developed an artist’s eye for smile aesthetics through experience and training from esteemed organizations include The Dawson Academy, Spear Education, Kois Center, and AADSM. He can restore the beauty to your smile and the happiness to your life with custom-fitted, natural-looking, secure dentures that won’t slip.
Compare Conventional Dentures and Implant Supported Dentures
Traditional Dentures
- Removable
- Last 5+ years
- Eventually require adhesives
- Allow bone recession
- Limit food choices
Implant Supported Dentures
- Removable or fixed
- Last 10+ years
- Secured by 2+ implants
- Limit bone recession
- Expand food choices
The Implant Supported Denture Treatment Process
Your dental implant surgeon will verify your eligibility for implants through an examination and imaging. Once they determine you can receive dental implants, whether immediately or following some preparatory treatments, they’ll take impressions of your teeth that will become the basis of your dentures. On a subsequent appointment, you’ll have dental implant posts surgically inserted in your jaw. Healing after this procedure can take three months or more, during which time you may wear a temporary denture. Our office will coordinate the next phase of your care with your dental implant surgeon.
After you’ve healed fully, you’ll come to see Dr. Ackley to have your final, customized dentures. Depending on your unique case, your denture will be secured to these implants with either a ball or bar attachment and can be removable for cleaning or permanently attached. If you’re already wearing dentures, Dr. Ackley may be able to repurpose them by securing them to your new implants. With your implant supported dentures firmly in place, you’ll be able to:
- Smile without feeling self-conscious
- Speak and laugh comfortably
- Eat a greater variety of foods
- Stop worrying about embarrassing slippage
