What Is All on 4 Dental Implant?

To understand what All-On-4 dental implantation is, you must first know what an implant is.

A dental implant is a small screw, usually made of titanium, inserted into your jawbone in the space left by a missing tooth.

Once the implant is placed in your mouth, your dentist fixes a false tooth: the dental crown, to the screw. This helps replace a lost tooth.

Now multiply that technique by four and you get the All-On-4 (or All-on-four or AO4) dental implantation except instead of using one implant for each missing tooth you can just use four implants. at the top and four at the bottom as the main anchors.

Then our dentist can attach a full jaw prosthesis to these 4 implants. The All-on-4 technique therefore makes it possible to replace all the teeth in a jaw with 4 implants instead of placing one implant for each tooth, which represents a great saving. The translation of All-on-four is therefore: all in four.