I like to call it all-on-X because sometimes we try to put five implants or six implants, whatever the case needs. I like to have more implants in there. It’s better long term, so in case of failure of one, since we’re just having four, I like to have five or six implants in there. I always plan for long term. Why are these better? Why do patients prefer an all-on-X prosthesis? It’s that it comes closest to their natural teeth, so if they’ve lost all the teeth on the upper jaw or on the lower jaw, we put in four to six implants.
And if everything goes well on the day of surgery in terms of, like, how well the implants are torqued into the bone, we can then look at giving them a same-day, teeth-in-a-day type of treatment where they wake up and walk out with a denture that’s fixed to the implants. They’re advised to have soft diets and patients like this because this is the closest that comes to their own natural dentition, you know, they don’t have to deal with taking the dentures out at night. They don’t have to worry about it flip-flopping in their mouth and they feel secure.
