Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2007 | Page 89

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Having problems
with your dentures?
You do not have to continue
suffering embarrassment
and aggravation.
Imagine this!
In less than two hours
you can have dental
implants placed in my
surgery and leave with a
secure fitting denture.
This, of course, is performed only
after thorough and extensive
pre-surgical planning and
radiographic examination.
You will be able to eat
comfortably, have a pleasant
conversation, laugh and
talk with confidence.
Traditional dentistry has
focused on preventing tooth
loss but not on preventing bone
loss after tooth extraction.
Patients are often not aware of
the anatomical changes and the
potential consequences of the
insidious bone loss that continues
after teeth have been extracted.
This bone loss is accelerated
when patients wear poorly
fitting full dentures!
A tooth is necessary for the
development of alveolar bone
(the specific part of the jaws in
which teeth are embedded) and
stimulation of this bone is required
to maintain its volume and density.
A conventional removable
denture (complete or partial) does
not stimulate and maintain bone;
it often accelerates the bone loss!
The load from mastication
(chewing) with conventional
dentures is transferred to the
bone surface only, not the
whole bone. As a result blood
supply is reduced, and often
total bone volume loss occurs.
Placement of dental implants,

which are made from titanium or
titanium alloy is biocompatible
and should last your lifetime,
arrest bone loss and enhances
support, retention and stability
of your overdenture.

Implant-retained dentures
will allow you to:
0 Participate again in social

activities from which you
withdrew because of
your lack of confidence
in your dentures.
0 Speak better.
0 Do without messy
denture adhesives.
0 Eat whatever you want.
0 Smile with confidence.
0 Improve your nutritional
intake and thus improve
your general health,
especially the medically
compromised elderly.
It may be possible to use your
existing dentures and thus save
on costs and time to complete
the treatment. If your dentures
are not of an acceptable
quality ad fit, then a new set
of dentures will be required.
Several types of implants can
be utilized for this procedure,
however, each patient is
unique and an implant
treatment is tailored to your
specific requirements.
The implants are placed with
aid of computer guided implant
placement technology, using
data obtained from a ct scan.
This allows for the most accurate

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placement of the dental implants.
Computer guided implant
placement allows one to place
the implants into the jaws in a
minimally invasive manner i.e.
no scalpels are used to cut the
gums and expose the bone!
Small, precisely drilled holes
are made in your gums.
This has several advantages
such as reduced surgery time,
less trauma, faster healing,
no sutures, reduced costs.
Computer guided implant
placement allows analysis of
the density and volume of the
bone so that there is no doubt
as to the best position for the
implants and in order to ensure
that vital anatomical structures
such as nerves are not damaged.
the safety of implant placement
in this manner is therefore far

superior to free hand placement.
Implant placement is basically
a three dimensional problem
of the implant itself and the
anatomical site where the
implant is to be placed.
The advanced computer
guided implant placement
programmes allows the jaws
to be visualised in 3-dimension
to sub-millimetric accuracy!

An implant-retained denture
can be a life-changing
dental experience !
CONTACT: DR. A. SATTAR
Wootton Bridge Dental
Implant Clinic
2a Rectory Drive, Wootton, IW

Tel: [phone]
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