Dental Implants for Dentures
Linda, a dental implant patient, asks us:
Does anyone experience any problems with dental implants used to hold lower dentures firmly in place?
Are they supposed to be sensitive to cold air or cold foods? What should one do when one has a problem with these types of dental implants, even years down the road? Thanks.
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Alejandro Berg
1/24/2006
Dear Linda:
Implants that are used to support removable prosthesis are the most succeptible to fail, but within the 90% success rate atributed to implants arround the world.
In terms of sensibility they should be your best friends ... this means no sensitivity or pain at all, any other condition means you need to see your denstist asap.
Take care, hope you dont have any problems
Darryl
1/24/2006
Dear Linda,
A very simple treatment is to place 2 free standing implants with some form of attachment on top(either ERA or locator are good). This treatment can improve the quality of life substantially.Provided the implants are placed reasonably well being approx.in the middle of the denture and the middle of the bone you should get many years of service.Any risk to the implant is extremly low but the nylon clip in the denture does wear slowly and this is easily changed.
yianni
1/24/2006
I have fabricated a lot of lower overdentures and they are very predictable. You usually have problems with prosthetic complications (an attachment can be loose, or tooth breaks off, or wear and tear of components) but all of them can be replaced or fixed. The survival rate can be over 90%. I think is not normal to have pain with cold. You should propably visit your dentist
Anon
2/12/2006
Linda, A lot depends on the placement and amount and type of attachment used in reference to wear rate. But there should be no thermal sensitivity See your dentist.
