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Implant Retained Dentures

Cosmetic Dental Design are renowned for their implant restorative knowledge and expertise. Proudly preferring to use genuine implant components on their restorations, Cosmetic Dental Design has forged a trusted relationship with all implant companies for delivering quality, custom and genuine products to our clients. Accepting all implant systems from across the world, our decades of experience working with referring clinicians and specialists has exposed us to most systems on the market and we are here to help resolve any tricky cases that may arise. With multiple consignments from major implant companies, Cosmetic Dental Design can produce restorations without the disruptions of waiting for implant components to arrive in the laboratory. Whether it is same day temporaries, single crowns or full arch implant supported restorations, there is no limit to your possibilities with Cosmetic Dental Design. Cosmetic Dental Design also offers a wide range of implant components and drivers for the use of their clients in case there is ever a job that requires something outside the normal scope of your practice. This is all apart of the service we provide at Cosmetic Dental Design.

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Atlantis abutments for all major implant systems

Full Arch Implant retained restorations are a brilliant option for patients that have issues tolerating a traditional denture, and/or have biological factors that prevent a good fitting denture from being created. A common misconception is that implant retained restorations are only for people with full dentures. This is not the case, as there are solutions for patients that are both edentulous (without any remaining teeth), or with existing dentition to improve their current dental situation.

There are 3 typical treatment options that Dental Prosthetists use to construct your Implant Retained Dentures...

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Implant Overdenture - Gum Supported

The implant “overdenture” may look like a traditional denture from the surface, but it has a very different fitting surface. Once your dental implants have successfully integrated in the bone, your clinician or surgeon will place “Locator” abutments into the implants. These locators act as a fixation point between your Dental Implant and the Denture. The denture has a custom internal chrome framework that supports a Locator Specific “housing” that allows your denture to attach to the Locators that have been placed on your implants. The principal behind this denture is that the Dental Implant provides the fixation/stability point for the denture, instead of solely relying on the soft tissue, but still allows the denture to be removable for easy cleaning. Implant-retained tissue supported dentures are currently recognized as the minimum standard of care for fully edentulous patients.

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Titanium Bar Supported Overdenture

Unfortunately, sometimes nature dictates that we cannot have dental implants placed in the bone exactly where we would like. This could be from a lack of natural bone, contra-indicated health concerns or undetermined factors. However, this doesn’t mean it is the end of your dental implant journey.

The dental implants can be placed by the Dental Specialists to engage as much of your existing bone as possible, without needing to consider how you are expected to insert and remove the denture.

Instead of creating your overdenture to directly locate on the dental implants like Option 1, we can construct a custom titanium bar that screws into your dental implants. This titanium bar then has the “locator“ components designed on top of the bar to be perfectly parallel. This allows your new implant overdenture to engage the retentive attachments on the titanium bar. The overdenture, which is still removable, is secured to the bar through attachments fabricated directly into the denture. This technique helps to stabilise the implants in the bone, and allows out technicians to reduce the amount of coverage of acrylic in your mouth, This results in a more comfortable, stable and confident smile.

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Fixed Implant Denture or Ceramic Bridges

There may come a time where you no longer wish to have your denture be removable. There are multiple options to convert from a denture or a removable implant locator/overdenture to a device that is screwed directly into the implants and fixed into place. This type of restoration requires Cosmetic Denture Design’s Dental Prosthetists to work in conjunction with the Dental Specialists to coordinate your treatment. Think of the Dental Specialists as the biological and surgical architects that lay the platform for a perfect result. Whereas Cosmetic Denture Design are the project manager that ensure that your new dental prosthesis is made to the correct specifications and aesthetic requirements. Cosmetic Denture Design and our Dental Prosthetists will be here to guide you through the process and construct all the components that are used for your final fixed implant prosthesis.