All on Four Implant Treatment
All on Four treatment; It is a treatment system that provides the completion of edentulous patients with fixed restorations and requires a special technique. Extra surgical procedures such as sinus lifting and bone augmentation, which will increase the bone volume, are needed for implant application in cases where the resorption of the jaw bones is high, especially in patients who remain edentulous for a long time. These procedures have a long treatment time and high costs. It is precisely in these cases that ALL ON FOUR implant treatment plays a key role. This technique, in which fixed full restoration is applied on 4 implants surgically placed on the same day; It provides the highest level of patient satisfaction by combining function, aesthetics and speech.
In cases of complete edentulism, it is not possible to place implants in the posterior regions due to the resorbing of the jaw bones, the decrease in the distance between the nerve canal in the lower jaw, and the sagging of the sinus cavities in the upper jaw. Compensation for these situations is carried out either with removable prostheses supported by implants or by applying extra surgical procedures that will increase the bone volume with a high risk of complications. Thanks to the All-on-Four treatment, patients get fixed prostheses with minimal surgical procedures.
All on Four implant treatment can be safely applied to all patients who have sufficient bone volume and do not have any condition that may interfere with implant treatment. All on Four implant treatment, which has a high success in long-term follow-ups, has become one of the most frequently used methods today.
How is the All on Four treatment applied?
The number of implants placed, their positions and angles are the factors that make the biggest difference between traditional implant treatments and All on Four implant treatment. In cases of complete edentulism, in contrast to 6 or 8 implants placed parallel to each other in conventional implant treatments, All on Four treatment is completed with two implants placed parallel to each other in the middle of the jaw with an angle difference of approximately 17 to 30 degrees, that is, with a total of 4 implants. After the end of the surgical procedures, the prostheses prepared with the measurements taken from the patient are temporarily fixed on these implants, and the first stage of the All on Four treatment is completed. All these procedures are completed on the same day under local anesthesia. After 3 months, which is the minimum time required for the implants to fuse to the bone, the fixed prostheses that the patient will use permanently are prepared and the All on Four treatment is completed.
Advantages of All on Four implant treatment
- It offers a fixed prosthesis to edentulous patients with a single surgical procedure on the same day. This prosthesis, which will be used temporarily by the patients, allows them to spend the recovery period with fixed teeth, without interruption of speech and chewing functions.
- There is no need for extra surgical procedures such as sinus lifting or bone augmentation.
- It is more convenient in terms of cost, since there is no need for extra surgical procedures and the number of implants is lower.
- The treatment period is shorter than traditional implant treatments.
- Since the number of treatment sessions is less, it is a more suitable treatment system for those living outside the city or abroad.
- The loss of volume in the bone is prevented in the implant areas.