All-on-4 Dental Implants: A Permanent Solution for Full-Arch Tooth Loss

Losing all of your teeth in one or both arches of your jaw can be debilitating. Ordinary dentures can fit badly, need constant revision, and make it impossible to enjoy foods you once loved. In contrast, implant-supported dentures can give you your life back.

At Bayside Dental Arts in Queens, New York, Dr. Andrey Ilyabayev and our team can give you a gorgeous, natural-looking and -feeling smile that you don’t have to take out and clean every night. 

All-on-4 dental implants are a permanent solution to toothlessness and can restore your ability to smile, talk, and eat everything from ribs to corn on the cob with ease.

Impact of tooth loss on your health and social life

Edentulism (having no natural teeth left) in one or both arches of your jaw can pose significant issues for both your physical and mental health. Without teeth, even if you have traditional dentures, you:

• May avoid smiling or laughing
• Can find it hard to speak clearly
• Won’t be able to bite or chew many foods

The results can be extremely negative. Many people who suffer from edentulism find that they:

• Start avoiding social situations
• Don’t want to talk in person or even on the phone
• Stop getting proper nutrition

These effects of toothlessness can cause isolation, depression, and weight loss.

All-on-4 implant-supported dentures

Dental implants are ideal for replacing one or more teeth at a time, A titanium post placed in the jawbone provides support for a realistic tooth restoration. But when all of your teeth are gone, you don’t need an individual implant for each tooth.

Instead, we can seat four carefully positioned implants in the strongest areas of your jawbone, where they can support a permanent set of dentures. Your All-on-4 prosthetic restoration will look, feel, and function just like (or better than) your original teeth.

You won’t have to remove your dentures nightly, and there’s no need for sticky adhesives. You just brush, floss, and otherwise care for your new teeth exactly as recommended for natural teeth. 

Are you ready for All-on-4?

Even if you’re not edentulous yet, it could be time to consider All-on-4. The more teeth you lose, the more the bone in your jaw deteriorates, and over time, you can lose enough bone that implants won’t have anything to anchor in.

Some of our patients choose to have their last few teeth extracted so they can move ahead with All-on-4 while their jawbone is still in good condition. Others find that their bone loss is already severe, but they can have dental bone grafts to allow implantation. 

For more information on All-on-4 dental implants, call us at 315-908-0804 or book an appointment online. We’re located in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens, New York City.