What are the pros and cons of dental implants rather than dentures please?

BIG DIFFERENCE!: Dentures are pieces of plastic with teeth on them that come in and out, collect food underneath, can fall out of your mouth, are uncomfortable and should be taken out when you go to sleep. Dentures should be relined every 3-5 years. Implant supported crowns and bridges stay in your mouth, feel and look like real teeth and can last a lifetime.

Dental Implants : Feel like real teeth. They can maintain your ability to function (laugh, sneeze, kiss, smile, speak, drink, and chew) comfortably and with confidence. You will will never have the embarrassment as one patient relayed to me of getting seasick and vomiting her denture overboard. Spent the rest of her cruise in her room or another patient having her son fish it from the bottom of a pool.

The differences: Dental implants act and function like your own teeth, preserve your natural bone and allow you to eat anything you want. Dentures will continue to damage and erode bone, your ability to eat things become limited due to dislodge meant of the denture when you bite into something hard or crunchy as well as an altered sense of taste.

Implants are Optimal: Dental implant are optimal if you are a good candidate (bone presence & good health) because they provide bone stabilization and are easier to keep clean, however, can be expensive. Your options are not all or nothing--consider an implant denture. This can provide you the stability you desire, while saving a few dollars. Implant supported dentures can use as few as 2-6 implants for stability.

Denture Vs Implants: I will assume the question is about conventional dentures vs implant retained dentures. Any time you can place implants it works in your advantage. Increasing denture retention, comfort and function. They also help to prevent bone loss, helping your dentures to stay stable longer. You will be able to eat w/o fear of your teeth flying out. You can try w/o imp 1st, if not happy, get implants later.

Substantial: Dentures have an effective biting and chewing efficiency of perhaps 20% of natural teeth. Implants can greater improve that efficiency to near normal depending on how many implants are place and type of prosthesis fabricated over them. If possible always consider implants to either support your denture or if possible replace all missing teeth.

Retention & comfort: Dental implants are the only treatment available which can most closely provide you with what god gave you. Implants can allow you to be comfortable, confident, look good, chew anything you like, and can last a very long time. Dentures will move, and you simply will not have the stability and retention with conventional dentures. The disadvantage is cost. However, what's that worth to you?

Implants = best: Tooth replacement on implants can be fixed -- not removable. The implants stimulate the bone and help you maintain it longer. Chewing can equal that of natural teeth. Esthetics, comfort, function, longevity -- all superior. Dentures accelerate bone loss, restore, at best, about 40% chewing function, are not fixed in position, do not last as long, often uncomfortable over time, and can be 'bulky'.