What are Dentures in a Day?
If you’re facing total tooth loss in one jaw or both and are evaluating your options for dental restoration, chances are you’ve come across advertisements for dentures in a day. So just what are dentures in a day? That rather depends upon who is doing the advertising. Since the term is a promotional term, not a clinical one, and is commonly used to promote two distinct types of dental restorations, many Indianapolis dental patients who encounter these advertisements are – quite understandably – confused.
CONVENTIONAL, REMOVABLE DENTURES IN A DAY
Immediate dentures are often referred to as dentures in a day in advertisements. These are conventional, removable dentures – the traditional type that you might have seen in a glass on your grandmother’s bedside table. What is different about them is that they are fabricated before your remaining teeth are extracted in order to be placed at the same time those teeth are removed, eliminating the long, toothless waiting period that is typical of the standard process of denture fabrication and fitting.
PERMANENT, IMPLANT-SUPPORTED DENTURE IN A DAY
Permanent dentures are a form of implant-based dental restoration that provides patients with a full arch of replacement teeth anchored firmly in place with dental implants. A fixed dental restoration, permanent dentures can only be removed by your dentist, and are designed to look, feel and function like natural teeth. Advertisements that describe permanent dentures options as dentures in a day are referring to procedures that use immediate load dental implants.
Unlike traditional implant placement, which requires months of healing time between dental implant placement surgery and the fitting of a patient’s new teeth, procedures done with immediate load implants – such as All-on-4® Indianapolis procedures – allow replacement teeth to be loaded onto implants immediately after they are surgically placed into the jaw bone, completing both steps the same day.
A WORD OF CAUTION:
One more thing about those advertisements you’ll see floating around is that many of them do not make it clear that neither of these options is a simple procedure that you can have done just anywhere. Immediate load dental implant procedures require extensive surgical planning to accomplish the very precise implant placement necessary for the long-term success of dental restorations. Immediate dentures aren’t simple either, since patients typically need extractions before they are placed, and many will need other surgical procedures, such as bone contouring, to prepare the mouth for their new dentures. For these reasons, if you’re considering either one of these dentures in a day options to restore your failing teeth, choosing a qualified and experienced oral and maxillofacial surgeon to handle these procedures, rather than a general dentist, is your best bet to ensure comfortable, complication-free and attractive dental restoration results.
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