All-on-4 Alternatives: Discover the Stability of Fix-on-Six!

At Fine Dental Care, we recommend using dental implants to support your denture. While traditional dentures do replace teeth, they only replace the crowns of your teeth, leaving the roots unreplaced. Tooth roots are essential for a stable smile, as they keep your jawbone healthy through stimulation! When missing roots, your jawbone often undergoes bone resorption, resulting in loss of mass and volume. Dental implants are the only tooth restoration that replaces the tooth root, providing an amazingly sturdy foundation for your smile. Unfortunately, traditional dental implants are often large in diameter and may not be suitable for every patient. This makes implant denture placement systems, like All-on-4, impossible for many patients with limited bone structure. However, we offer incredible All-on-4 alternatives that provide great stability with less hassle. Introducing: the innovative Fix-on-Six!

Understanding All-on-4

The All-on-4 placement system involves using four traditional implants to secure your denture in place, providing a stable smile. By using only four implants, we preserve a large amount of your bone structure while maintaining stability!

Using innovative 3D X-ray technology, we can precisely determine where to place the implants for the absolute best possible outcome. We place two of the four implants at the front of your smile, towards the middle. The other two go on either side of your smile in the back, at a 45-degree angle. Angling the implants allows us to use more of the existing bone structure without damaging critical structures, such as the sinuses or nerves. With the All-on-4 system, we rely on these strategically placed implants for security, allowing us to reduce the number of implants needed.

Unfortunately, many patients are still ineligible for the All-on-4 system, as traditional implants require ample bone structure. Even with just 4, many patients lack the necessary jawbone to support these implants due to bone resorption. Thankfully, Fine Dental Care has a more accessible solution!

All-on-4 Alternatives: Meet Fix-on-Six

Fix-on-Six is one of the alternatives to All-on-4 that we offer, using mini dental implants instead of traditional implants.

Mini implants are the sleeker and smaller version of dental implants that are just as effective. With their narrow diameter, mini implants require much less bone structure for placement! Often, without the need for a bone graft, we place mini dental implants strategically around your jaw to create a very stable foundation for your dentures.

Because of their smaller size, we use a minimally invasive procedure that preserves the tissues surrounding your implant. Not only does this facilitate faster healing, but it also offers various benefits for patients like you!

Fix-on-Six utilizes around 6-10 mini implants to stabilize your smile. While 6 is a big increase from 4, these titanium posts are much smaller, allowing us to fit more implants for better security.

Additionally, in the uncommon event that one of your implants fails to stabilize, the Fix-on-Six placement method is better equipped to handle it. With only four implants securing your smile, one implant failure creates a large burden for the other three.

We would have to remove your prosthesis, take out your implant, replace the bone with a bone graft, and attempt to place another implant in a different area of the bone. This process is incredibly time-consuming and expensive, as it takes months of healing and multiple appointments.

In the rare event that a mini implant fails to stabilize in your jawbone, there are still at least five incredibly stable implants supporting your denture! This allows your false teeth to remain stable without the hassle of invasive procedures, bone grafts, and expensive replacements.

Using just six mini implants, we can secure your smile at a lower price, with a more comfortable and just as effective procedure!

Ready for the Mini Implant Difference? Try All-on-4 Alternatives like Fix-on-Six!

To keep your jawbone healthy and your smile stable, dental implants are the best solution for total tooth loss. At Fine Dental Care, we offer common procedures like the All-on-4 system with traditional implants, but we recognize that they may not be suitable for everyone. Fortunately, we also provide innovative All-on-4 alternatives with Fix-on-Six. Utilizing mini implants, we can revitalize your smile at a lower cost, with less risk, and with a much more comfortable procedure.

Book a free implant consultation today to learn if you’re eligible to secure your denture with All-on-4 alternatives.

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