Implant cases including locators, hader bars, ball attach
Your oral health depends on the health, condition and hygiene of your teeth. Missing teeth can make you lose confidence and can have the effect of shifting your jaw alignment, creating problems with your chewing, speech, atrophy occurring with your bone, and gum tissue. Removable dentures can be a hassle for many patients due to constant movement, discomfort and pain at times. Unlike removable dentures, the implants are firmly joined to the patient’s jawbone to preserve gum tissue and bone. Implant dentures are well suited for patients missing both upper teeth and lower teeth. Implant over dentures may be supported and retained using hader bars, and freestanding abutment-based attachments including balls and locators( resilient stud attachments).
Various attachments for implant over dentures
The various attachments of implant over dentures depend on implant position, desire for cross-arch stabilization, size and condition of the prosthesis, oral hygiene, sore spot’s tendency, restorative space availability, and ease of fabrication or repair of the prosthesis.
Locator
Locators are designed to be cast, welded, or threaded (if recommended) on top of a bar connected to dental implants that are placed in the jawbone. Locators are popular attachments for implant retained or supported over dentures due to their low level of thickness (2.5 mm height) and ability to self-align, which can correct up to 40° of implant angulation. Locator attachments have 8 different retention levels for the easy customization to the patient’s needs. Locator attachments are available in various vertical heights, are resilient, retentive, durable, and also have some built-in angulation compensation.
Benefits of Locator attachments
- Greatly improves the retention and chewing ability.
- Compatibility with a high number of implant’s systems.
- Self-alignment 9-11 (making it easy for the patient to align and seat the prosthesis and also reducing the wear of nylon-retentive inserts because of improper prosthesis placement).
- Low profile (3.17 mm for external hexagon implant, 2.5 mm for an internal connection).
- Dual internal and external retention.
- Maintenance of oral hygiene.
Hader Bar
Hader bar is the most widely used bar retainer to improve the level of satisfaction of denture wearers by enhancing the stability and retention of prosthesis. The primary functions of bar attachments are connecting and guiding the prosthesis to implants, splinting the abutments together, even distribution of forces to the abutments and supporting areas.
Benefits of hader bar attachments
- Has a single axis of rotation.
- They are the shortest (10 mm from implant platform to opposing tooth) and narrowest (3 mm) bar solution.
- Cost-effective and most versatile depending upon the clip option you select.
- Needs less maintenance effort compared to other individual abutments.
Ball attachments
Ball attachments are an effective and trustable option designed to increase retention of (partial) over dentures, supported on implant treatments. The Sphero line provides the ultimate parameter of flexibility and functionality to the dentist and dental technicians. Depending on multiple diameters, Micro 1.8 mm and Normo 2.5 mm, each attachment is available in multiple gingival heights beginning with 0.5 mm up to 7 mm. The professional can choose from these attachments manufactured to be compatible with connections.
Benefits of Ball attachment
- Higher initial retention compared to other systems.
- Easy to replace in case of failure.
- Cost-effective and comfortable.
- Easy to remove and clean.
- Improved oral hygiene.
