My lower plate snaps into two implants. It is now loose on one side. My dentist tightened one time. Now the are loose again. Can this be repaired without replacing the lower plate
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Occasionally, the implant is exposed during the healing process and depending on the amount of exposure, should pose no real problem. The amount of exposure that I see in your photo would not concern me. The movement is another story however. If the movement is simply coming from a loose healing...
It is completely normal for that adjusting. It is sometimes a little more tedious to adjust a crown over an implant to get it just right but once it's adjusted, a little polishing of the porcelain and it's no problem!
The greatest concern with wearing a partial denture and delaying implant placement is with the bone. You really want to have at least ten millimeters of bone to support an implant for long term success. Once teeth are removed, bone gradually deteriorates or "resorbs". So the answer to your...