Whether you're missing one or all of your teeth, living with an incomplete smile can reduce your quality of life. Missing teeth can make it difficult to speak naturally, eat your favorite foods, and smile with confidence. Thankfully, modern dentistry offers several restorative treatment options that can be used to rehabilitate a damaged smile to restore its form, function, and beauty in addition to your confidence and quality of life.
For patients who are missing all or most of their teeth, the most highly recommended restorative treatment option is All-on-X.
All-on-X is a revolutionary restorative dental treatment that uses a number (usually four, six, or eight) of strategically placed dental implants to support a permanently fixed set of dentures. All-on-X can be used to replace all or most of a patient's teeth by with full or partial dentures supported by dental implants.
All-on-X treatment restores the form and function of a person's smile by replacing their teeth with securely attached dentures.
Dentures supported by dental implants look and feel completely natural. Modern imaging and CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) technology have made it possible to completely customize our patients' treatments and their prosthetic tooth replacements. This results in highly comfortable dental prosthetics that look completely natural, work like natural teeth, and feel like natural teeth inside your mouth.
Since dental implants are inserted into the jawbone, All-on-X stimulates the jawbone. This stimulation is vital to the ongoing generation of bone matter within the jaws which prevents the jawbone from deteriorating as a result of tooth loss. This prevents worse oral health problems from developing while also maintaining the patient's natural bone structure and facial features, which would otherwise change over time due to the loss of jawbone matter.
All-on-X represents a vast improvement in quality of life for patients who are currently wearing traditional dentures or who currently have no replacement for their missing teeth. Smile restoration with All-on-X will boost your confidence, ease oral pain and discomfort, enable you to enjoy all of your favorite foods, support your ability to speak normally, and help to improve and maintain your physical appearance.
Patients who restore their smiles with All-on-X experience increased confidence and feelings of self-love. They are able to eat anything they want comfortably and confidently whether at home or at a restaurant. They can speak with confidence and never have to worry about showing off their smiles.
Maintaining your oral health and taking steps to prevent periodontal disease is important for your well-being as well as the integrity of your restorative dental treatments. However, All-on-X is easy to care for and maintain.
We recommend that patients continue visiting the dentist every six months for a routine checkup in addition to brushing and flossing as normal, using a soft-bristled toothbrush and non-abrasive toothpaste. Introducing a water flosser to your oral hygiene routine can also be extremely beneficial for keeping your gum tissues clean in the areas surrounding your dental implants.
Modern traditional dentures have come a long way in terms of comfort, customization, and ease of wear. However, they still don't compare to implant-supported dentures, like All-on-X. With All-on-X, patients do not need to use sticky dental adhesive to hold their dentures in place, and their dentures will not need to be adjusted for an ongoing good fit. All-on-X dentures will never shift around in the mouth, feel unstable, or cause sores by rubbing against the soft tissues.
Dr. Decker of Decker Dental has extensive experience in restoring patient smiles. If you're missing all or most of your teeth, understand that you don't have to let the consequences of an incomplete smile diminish your happiness, confidence, or quality of life. Our team at Decker Dental is here to help you address your dental care needs and restore your smile's form, function, and beauty along with your quality of life.
Whether you're missing one, several, or all of your teeth, we can create a customized treatment plan designed to restore your smile. To learn more about treatment with All-on-X or other smile restoration treatment options supported by dental implants, we welcome you to contact our dental office in Enumclaw today.
Call 360.825.3191 or click the link below to schedule an appointment online.