Full-Arch Dental Implants in Springfield, MO

When you think of the word security, what comes to mind? For some, it’s the comfort of a stable job and a steady paycheck. For others, security may resemble the click of your seatbelt locking in place or driving the familiar route back home. While nothing exciting or crazy, security evokes feelings of both comfort and confidence. But what about the stability of your smile? With missing teeth or loose dentures, security is often the last word you would associate with your smile. Fortunately, the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, offers full-arch dental implants to secure your smile in place! Using these implants to anchor your denture, we help provide the stability and comfort your smile has been missing.

What Are Full-Arch Dental Implants?

Full-arch refers to the entire row of teeth in either your upper or lower jaw. These arches follow the natural curve of your gums and jawbone, fitting together perfectly to allow your smile to function. Each arch distributes the pressure of your bite evenly across your jawbone, keeping your smile both healthy and happy. With a stable smile, patients like you break down foods and speak clearly, with little to no trouble.

Full-Arch Dental Implants in Springfield, MO | Secure Your SmileFull-arch dental implants refer to the use of innovative implant technology to replace a full arch of teeth! After losing all your teeth, it becomes difficult to eat and speak effectively, which creates problems with your overall function and health.

Fortunately, we can place several implants strategically around your jaw, securing a full arch restoration that replaces your smile. These implants provide incredible stability, keeping your artificial teeth secure in your mouth.

This stability is due to a process known as osseointegration. Because dental implants are made of strong titanium, they are biocompatible. Biocompatibility refers to the ability to interact well with living bone tissue. When placed inside your jawbone, titanium implants osseointegrate over time, bonding with the bone to form a stable connection. Gradually, your implants will be strong enough to mimic the natural security of your tooth roots, anchoring your artificial smile in place.

How Mini Implants Support Your Full-Arch Restorations

At the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, we utilize mini dental implants to restore your smile.

These implants are not only much smaller than their more conventional counterparts, but they also feature a unique one-piece design! Thanks to their sleek diameter and build, mini implants offer numerous incredible benefits that make restoring a full arch of teeth much simpler.

These benefits include:

  • Less invasive: Due to their small diameter, we use a minimally invasive procedure to place mini implants. Unlike conventional implants, which require incisions and large drills, we only need to make a tiny pilot hole in your jawbone to place these implants! Additionally, their one-piece design enables us to place mini implants in a single appointment, eliminating the need for healing periods between parts.
  • More accessible: Conventional dental implants require ample jawbone for stability, making many patients ineligible for treatment without additional procedures. Bone grafts and sinus lifts rebuild lost bone, but they often add to the price and length of your procedure. Fortunately, mini implants secure in less bone, reducing the need for additional steps in your full arch replacement process.
  • Quicker healing: By using a gentle placement procedure, we disturb the surrounding tissues near your implant less, allowing for faster healing. This, in combination with mini implants’ threaded design, allows us to secure a temporary, or even final restoration, the same day we place your implants! Rather than waiting at least 3 months for your implants to stabilize, mini implants begin the osseointegration process immediately and are usually secure within a few weeks.
  • More affordable: With fewer appointments, fewer components, and fewer additional procedures, mini implants are almost half the cost of conventional dental implants.

By using mini implants, we help restore a full-arch restoration to bring security back to your smile.

Full-Arch Dental Implants: Your Denture Options

With mini implants placed strategically around your jaw, we can secure a full-arch restoration in your jawbone. These full-arch dental implants anchor your denture in place, providing a stable and functional smile that is built to last.

However, at the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, we have many denture solutions to choose from. These full-arch restorations vary in both design and structure, allowing patients to find the perfect solution for their lifestyle.

Implant Overdentures

Unlike a traditional denture, an implant overdenture secures on 4 to 8 mini dental implants, rather than your jawbone. Not only do these implants provide better stability, but they also allow us to remove a portion of your bulky denture base!

Traditional dentures require a gum base that secures a full arch of teeth. These dentures rely on your jawbone for support, with the bottom arch fitting directly over your gums. The top arch, however, relies on suction to stay in place.

Using saliva and a large upper plate, this restoration sticks to the roof of your mouth. Unfortunately, the large upper denture plate covers key taste buds, preventing you from fully experiencing the taste and temperature of the foods you love.

With an implant overdenture, we can remove the bulky upper denture plate, providing a much more comfortable experience. Using full-arch mini dental implants to secure your overdenture in place, we’re able to mimic the removability of a traditional denture while providing enhanced stability and comfort.

Roundhouse Bridges

Roundhouse dental bridges are full-arch restorations with a much sleeker design than traditional dentures or overdentures. As their name suggests, these restorations resemble dental bridges more closely than dentures, as they don’t require a denture base. Instead, they’re a full arch of teeth bonded together to form a horseshoe-like structure that secures directly on your implants.

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A semi-permanent roundhouse bridge features a natural-looking design that secures on 6 to 10 mini implants.

At the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, we offer two kinds of roundhouse bridges.

A semi-permanent roundhouse bridge is anchored on 6 to 10 mini implants, providing excellent stability. With no gum base required, these dentures offer a very natural look, providing an aesthetically pleasing smile. However, it’s important to note that you never remove these dentures yourself. Only trained professionals, like those at the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, will remove semi-permanent dentures during routine dental check-ups.

A permanent (or fixed) roundhouse bridge is secured by 10-12 mini implants, offering the ultimate stability for your smile! Similar to a semi-permanent roundhouse bridge, this denture features a sleek design with no bulky gum base. Instead, it secures directly on your implants to provide a seamless and natural look.

However, these restorations aren’t just natural-looking, but also natural-feeling! Because we cement permanent roundhouse bridges in place, they provide the stability and feeling of your natural smile! With these full-arch dental implant-supported restorations, you can eat all the foods you love with no hesitation.

Full-Arch Dental Implants in Springfield, MO, Restore Your Smile!

Missing teeth and loose dentures don’t instill feelings of security. Fortunately, full-arch dental implants help restore stability to your smile! By anchoring your denture restorations in place, these implants enable you to eat and speak clearly again, without the hassle of traditional dentures.

If you’ve been looking for a way to stabilize your smile, book a free implant consultation at the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, today!

Frequently Asked Questions

Dental implants are often associated with high costs and multiple appointments.

Fortunately, we use mini dental implants, which are much less expensive than conventional implants! With fewer appointments and procedures, mini implants are almost half the cost of their conventional counterparts.

Additionally, the Mini Dental Implant Center of America in Springfield, MO, partners with third-party financing companies to help make your care more affordable! By breaking their costs into manageable monthly payments, more patients can afford full-arch dental implants.

The number of implants you need for a full-arch restoration depends on the type of denture you want.

A snap-in overdenture requires 4 to 8 implants, but we often use 4 to secure the lower and 6 for the upper. However, due to their added stability, a roundhouse bridge requires more implants!

A semi-permanent roundhouse bridge typically needs 6 to 10 implants, while a permanent bridge requires 10 to 12 for maximum stability.

Because we use mini dental implants, most patients report much less discomfort than those who use conventional implants.

Using a localized anesthetic at the beginning of your placement, we ensure your comfort throughout the procedure. Then, because we use a minimally invasive placement process, you’ll likely feel very little discomfort afterwards.

Additionally, any post-procedural pain is easily managed with over-the-counter medications!

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