ANARROW-DIAMETER IMPLANTS WITH SCREWRETAINED PROSTHETICS ARE SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR LIMITED SPACES
The Dentatus Anew narrow-diameter implant system and the Atlas Denture Comfort Implant System from Dentatus offer patients of all ages minimally invasive, practical solutions for single implants and implant-retained dentures. Whether a patient’s bone structure is borderline sufficient, or he or she is lacking in time or budget, Dentatus Anew and Atlas are easy to place, and patients can leave with immediately loaded restorations and removable dentures. Dr. Tera Greene of Meridian, ID, has placed about 7,000 implant-retained or -supported prosthetics during her 18 years as a practitioner and says that switching to the Dentatus systems was the best thing for her practice.
I have the largest dental practice in Idaho, and I’ve probably placed more implants than anyone in the Northwest. It’s a very big denture practice, and I do a ton of these implants. Eighty percent of my patients are partial to full-mouth extractions who need an implant or an implant-retained removable prosthetic. When I needed to switch systems and researched what was out there, I found Dentatus, and it’s made treatment success so much simpler and more predictable.
Dentatus Anew is unique in that it is a narrow-diameter implant with a screw-retained prosthetic system. I have patients who don’t qualify for conventional implants because they don’t have enough bone, or they’re diabetic or smokers, or are elderly. You can place Anew implants in just about anybody. There’s an ease of use for both the dentist and patient, it’s less expensive, and it makes it so almost anyone can get their tooth replaced with an implant.
Simple Technique
After I remove the teeth, I let the extraction sites heal for 2 to 6 months before placing the implants. Because these are small-diameter implants, you are removing a very minimal amount of bone, and you can place them in almost any given clinical situation. Taking out the least amount of bone possible, I make a little pilot hole, go about halfway down the length I want to go, and then the implant threads itself the rest of the way. That’s a major advantage: They disrupt much less tissue and bone, and rarely require a flap, so healing is faster and there is less postoperative pain. Anew implants can be used in patients with limited interdental space, even as narrow as 3.5 mm. I’ve placed them in 20-year-olds and 95-year-olds. With this system, you don’t need to use cone beam or guided surgery. The technique is so easy, and patients have their teeth right away.
For implant-retained dentures, the Atlas system is unique. There are no O-rings, housings, locators, or adhesives, which reduces or eliminates bacteria buildup and peri-implantitis. The silicone liner lasts much longer than a soft reliner. When these dentures are in, they stay in. My patients wear them 24/7, but can easily pop them in and out for daily cleaning.
Satisfied Patients
It’s a very tough thing to get people comfortable in dentures, but my patients love the feel of the Dentatus soft liner. In fact, of the patients who are in both the system I used before and the Dentatus system, every single one prefers Dentatus. They are so happy, it’s resulted in my schedule being freed up, and I’m doing more cases. If you are doing dentures, you absolutely have to have this as part of your arsenal.
About Tera Greene, DDS
Dr. Greene has always believed that without dental health, an individual is not healthy. Her practice, Accure Dental & Dentures, Meridian, ID, offers extractions, dentures, partials, and implants, and all forms of general dentistry. The practice makes its own brand of dentures in its onsite dental lab, providing custom dentures the same day as tooth extractions.
