Appointments
Our patients
Diagnosing implant suitability
Permanent replacement teeth
Anchoring dentures
How implants work
Low-stress, minimal access implant surgery
Pricing
For referring dentists
For referring denturists
Smoking and implants
 

 Providing retention for denturist's clients
Osseointegrated implants can help people dissatisfied with their lower dentures.
Implants can increase retention enough to make lowers secure even if there are no ridges at all, and the retention increase can often be made with people’s existing dentures, by modifying them to accept retentive studs.
We accept referrals for implant surgery from denturists who want to improve lower denture stability for their clients.
We insert implants, uncover them 2 months later if embedded, connect the appropriate retentive studs and have them return to the referring denturists for prosthetics.
Referring practitioners can then either provide new dentures to the implant recipients or modify their existing dentures to fit the implant studs.
 
 We offer referring practitioners 
A successful track record: 97% of implants we have inserted have osseointegrated 
Satisfied patients who have had stress-free, painless surgery and quick, painless recoveries 
An emphasis on convenience which allows people to book appointments in a timely fashion and to have all, or most of their implants inserted in one visit to the Centre, with shorter visits as necessary to remove sutures, uncover embedded implants and evaluate healing 
Assurance that the people referred will return to the referring practitioner for whatever denture modifications or new dentures they require
Reassurance to patients that lower denture problems occur, not because of inadequate efforts, skill or knowledge on the part of denture providers, but because getting enough retention to satisfy wearers without implants is often an impossible task
Information on how to modify standard lab procedures to incorporate implant retention into dentures
Help with questions about lab procedures
A responsive source for lab components needed to duplicate the implant studs in working models

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