Dental Implants in North Richland Hills

An implant supported bridge is a restorative solution for spaces where three or more adjacent teeth are missing. Two or more dental implants will anchor a sturdy bridge to replace multiple teeth in a row. The advantage to this type of bridge over a traditional fixed bridge is that we don’t have to modify your teeth to secure it. The bridge provides a functional and aesthetic replacement for a patient’s natural teeth.

Because of the natural look and feel of the porcelain and the functional stability provided by the implants, implant supported bridges are an effective solution to replace multiple missing teeth.

A traditional bridge uses teeth on either side of the gap where teeth are missing for support. An implant supported bridge uses two or more dental implants rather than the adjacent teeth. When a bridge uses natural teeth for attachment, the natural teeth must be prepped for crowns and are then subject to increased stress which may be damaging - particularly if the existing tooth, roots, or surrounding bone structure are already compromised. A dental implant supported bridge replaced your missing teeth and avoids putting any additional stress on your natural teeth.

For patients who are missing many or all of their teeth, implant retained dentures may be an alternative to traditional dentures. Our team can secure a set of dentures to your implants using a ball-and-snap system. These dentures offer superior comfort and stability over conventional dentures.

Traditional dentures rely on an acrylic base that sits directly on the gums, held in place by a paste or adhesive. Using implants as supports for dentures allows for a smaller and more comfortable base and less shifting of the prosthesis during use.

Implants can support both full and partial dentures as well as both fixed and removable dentures.  If a removable denture is selected, the denture will “snap” on to the implant rather than requiring the use of denture paste or adhesives. Removable dentures can be taken out for cleaning at night for good oral hygiene habits.

Implant supported dentures offer many advantages over traditional dentures.

Easy to care for, implant supported dentures can simulate the look and feel of natural teeth and stay fixed in place with the implants acting as anchors. Patients will not experience the typical rocking and movement or gum irritation associated with dentures.

Dental implant placement can also help alleviate the sunken look that can occur with bone loss in the jaw by stimulating bone growth in the area around the implant. This process can also help prevent future bone loss.

This solution is our most comfortable, most stable dentures option. They are similar to implant-retained dentures except that they anchor to a bar attached to your implants. This procedure is a unique implant solution that allows patients with a completely edentulous (toothless) upper or lower arch to replace all of the teeth in that arch using only four implants as anchors.

If you are not a good candidate for traditional dental implants, then mini implants may be a good choice. They look similar to standard implants but are smaller, require less invasive surgery, and allow for quicker healing. Small spaces or inadequate bone mass in the jaw may prevent the use of traditional implants. Mini Dental Implants are similar to regular implants but, as the name suggests, are significantly smaller in diameter. The placement of MDIs is minimally invasive, often requiring only local anesthetic and no sutures.  For this reason, MDIs can often be placed with the final replacement tooth in one day.