Click-tite Dentures & Micro Implants

This is the best way to secure dentures and it involves placing several anchors in the jaw, which are then attached to the denture. The more implants placed the more secure the attachment. We can easily increase or decrease the retention for you to make them strong enough to stay in comfortably but easy to remove when you need to. 

These are dentures that you can take out to clean but will not come out and embarrass you at other times.

Click-tite™ dentures use several anchors (implants) placed in your jaw that attach securely to your denture. We can adjust the retention level to ensure your dentures are strong enough to stay in place comfortably while remaining easy to remove when needed. You’ll be able to clean them easily, but they won’t come loose during daily activities.

Typically, we can make and fit your final dentures just two months after placing the Click-tite™ implants. You’ll never be without teeth during the healing process, as we provide temporary dentures until your permanent ones are ready.

Yes! If you have remaining teeth that need extraction, we can often place the implants during the same procedure as your extractions. This streamlines the process and reduces overall treatment time.

Yes, you’ll be able to eat virtually any food because the dentures are much more secure with very little movement. Unlike traditional dentures, Click-tite™ dentures stay firmly in place while eating.

Click-tite™ implants help preserve your jaw bone and prevent facial profile collapse, which commonly occurs with traditional dentures. This helps maintain your natural facial appearance over time.

Yes, if you decide later that you’d prefer fixed teeth, it’s usually possible to upgrade your Click-tite™ implants to support permanent, fixed teeth. (This isn’t possible with mini implants as they’re too small to support the additional forces.)

Yes, VHI provides a contribution toward the cost of lower jaw Click-tite™ dentures if you have no remaining teeth and struggle with traditional dentures. The treatment is also tax deductible.

Yes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved micro-implants as a long-term item. As they are so small they are very easily placed and so cause very little discomfort. They are regularly placed in people of advanced age because they are gently placed.

Micro implants can function as long-term supporting structures. In fact, some have been successfully functioning in patients’ jaws for several decades. In the past several years, some clinicians have been using Micro Implants for single tooth replacements and in crown and bridge cases. We only use them for making dentures more stable, where they have the highest success rate.

Securing a lower denture is the most effective use of this unique dental product. There are millions of people worldwide who lack teeth or struggle daily with loose teeth. Uniquely, the micro-implants can be utilised to stabilise a denture in a couple of hours at Seapoint Clinic, with the patient leaving the clinic with a stabilised denture.

Micro implants are placed in a painless procedure and require only a mild local anaesthetic. The micro-implants, approximately the size of wooden toothpicks, are placed about five millimetres apart.

The patient’s denture is then carefully adjusted to clip onto the four micro-implants. The result? A tight-fitting, completely reliable system that allows a patient to speak and eat confidently.

The micro dental implants are placed in about an hour. Because of the unique, minimally invasive procedure, the minute size of the implants, and where they are placed, the typical micro dental implant patient could enjoy a light meal the same day as having the mini implants placed.

A denture patient who has had his or her denture stabilised with micro-implants can remove and replace the denture easily after a little practice and can easily maintain good dental hygiene.

The cost varies depending on the size, number and complexity of the case. If you have health insurance, you may well be entitled to treatment completely free of charge. Micro implants generally cost less than regular implants and are inexpensive to secure a denture. Have a look at our pricing page for details of the cost.

We have been placing micro implants (and regular implants) for years and have a great deal of experience and education in the area. We have changed many people’s lives with these remarkable devices. If you would like to talk to someone who has been through this procedure, please contact our Implant Patient Coordinators who can put you in touch with real patients who are happy to share their experiences.

When a tooth is extracted, there will be a hole in the bone. Often the bone has been damaged by infection before the loss of the tooth, and so will be thin or even have a hole present in it.

If we allow the socket to heal naturally, bone loss will occur in the area. The exact amount will vary depending on the situation, but it will happen.

If we place a socket graft at the time of the extraction, we can considerably reduce bone loss. This can mean the final tooth looks better, feels better and lasts longer.

Socket grafting is a simple procedure carried out while you are numb after the extraction. We clean out the socket and fill it with a bone substitute. Over time, this bone substitute is replaced with your own bone to preserve and maintain the bone.