Dental Implants or Dentures?

Tooth Replacement Options in Las Vegas, NV

Traditionally, patients turned to dentures to replace missing teeth. Today, there are several alternatives to dentures available to provide more health benefits and long-term solutions for missing teeth. Dentures and dental implants can both cosmetically restore your smile, but removable dentures have some pros and cons that cause thousands of patients to turn to natural-looking, permanent dental implants.

When dentures are not fitted properly, they can slide around in your mouth, causing sores. Your dentures must be removed during eating and brushing, which can be embarrassing to have to go without teeth. Teeth implants, however, remain in your mouth at all times. Dental implants improve your eating or speaking abilities with no removable parts.

At Canyon Oral & Facial Surgery Dental Implant Experts, our board-certified oral surgeons will evaluate your smile and help you determine the right solution for your replacement teeth.

Your options for missing teeth in Las Vegas include:

• Dental Implants. Dental implants are designed to replicate the appearance and function of natural teeth. The implant post is embedded into the jaw bone and provides stimulation, just like a tooth’s root. This keeps the jaw bone strong and healthy.
• Implant-Supported Bridges. Traditional bridges require your healthy teeth to be reshaped in order to fit the bridge. Instead, a dental implant can support the bridge and protect your healthy teeth.
• All-on-4^® Treatment Concept. This is a full-arch restoration procedure that uses four implant posts to support a fixed complete denture in one or both arches. The results are a natural-looking, fully functioning smile that you can enjoy after a single surgical visit.
• Removable Dentures or Bridges. These options do not fuse to the jaw bone, leading to bone loss over time. Severe loss can cause dental shifting, facial sagging, gum disease, tooth decay, and extensive bone repair surgery. Removable oral appliances and partial dentures require special care and sometimes denture adhesive. They restore the appearance of your smile but do not protect the jaw bone.
• Socket Preservation. Bone grafting can be used to preserve the size and shape of the empty tooth socket for future restoration. If you’re not receiving a dental implant right away, we can place a grafting material inside the tooth socket to prevent bone atrophy and maintain the socket’s shape until you receive an implant.
• No Replacement. By not restoring the tooth or teeth your smile remains incomplete, and the jaw bone will atrophy where the teeth are missing. Nearby teeth can shift into the open space, causing bite problems and misalignment. Greater bone loss causes facial features to sag, and future restoration may be more complex depending on the extensiveness of the bone loss.

Find Us in Las Vegas, Nevada

Canyon Oral & Facial Surgery Dental Implant Experts has two offices located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our Centennial Hills office is on the northwestern side of the city and our Summerlin office is on the west side near Spring Valley. We proudly serve patients in Las Vegas and nearby areas, including: