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SPECIAL NOTE...
You may be asking yourself, “What is my smile going to look like while my dental implants are healing?”
Rest assured, we won’t let you walk around “toothless,” or with gaps in your smile.
Temporary dentures, crowns or bridges can be placed into your mouth, which allow time and space for your implants to heal, or “integrate.”
These temporary pieces are milled by our 3D printer directly in-office, to ensure that every patient walks out with “teeth.”
In the cases of temporary dentures, these can
be removed when your implants are ready to be loaded with permanent dentures – and then kept as a “back up” set of dentures should you suffer any mishaps with your permanent set.
For example, if the dentures attached to your All-on-Four® Implants get chipped in a fall or an accident, then the permanent dentures can be sent in for repairs – and the temporary dentures (that