Full-mouth dental implants

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While a single dental implant may replace a broken or lost tooth, it also can serve as an anchor for multiple replacement teeth. Full-mouth dental implants are what they sound like: a long-lasting replacement for most or all of a patient’s teeth, also known as an All-On-4. 

With dentures, not only is there a risk of bone loss in the jaws, but the patient is opened up to potentially embarrassing situations at every meal. Advantages of dental implants include:

• Full-mouth dental implants are anchored to the jawbone with titanium, and the bone actually fuses to the implant through a process called osseointegration, reducing the risk of bone loss.
• Dentures will wear out over time and need to be replaced.
• Dental implants restore function on par with a patient’s original teeth. Eating with dentures can mean worrying about what’s on the menu.

A single dental implant is easy to imagine – it replaces the root of a tooth with the titanium implant with a crown on top. Full-mouth dental implants work differently. When replacing a mouth full of teeth, two or more titanium implants provide an anchor for the secure mounting of replacement teeth, preventing slipping and bone loss. 

Source: https://myoms.org/what-we-do/dental-implant-surgery/full-mouth-dental-implants/