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The
male part of the stud attachments are fitted onto the
dental implants.
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Within
the dentures are fitted the corresponding female parts
that contain small rubber rings that allow the two parts
to act like a press stud.
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Mrs
A was referred by her own dentist to CDIC as she found difficulty
in wearing her full upper and full lower dentures. She did not
mind wearing dentures but she found it impossible to keep them
from moving round and was always embarrassed when they dropped
down when she laughed or was eating. As there was only a small
amount of space available for some form of attachment to allow
her dentures to be held in position it was decided to place two
dental implants in her lower jaw and four in her upper jaw and
to fix stud attachments to these so that the denture could be
“press studded” onto these. The dentures are simply
pushed into placed and the attachments hold the denture in position.
The dentures can only be removed by a forceful tug, sticky foods,
hard foods or laughing with your mouth as wide as you can open
it cannot dislodge the dentures.
