Patent ID: 8764445

Claim:
A dental appliance for application to a jaw of a dental patient for specific use as at least one of a denture, a prosthetic, and an aesthetic function, comprising: an appliance base having a unitary construction formed as a “U” shape comprising an exposed base portion replicating at least a partial compliment of teeth for one of an upper jaw and a lower jaw of a dental patient and a contact side of said appliance formed to adapt to said one of patient's upper jaw and said patient's lower jaw, said contact side being segmented into a teeth receiving section and a toothless section, the “U” shape being defined by a front lower edge of each tooth of said at least partial compliment of teeth and a rear lower edge of each tooth of said at least partial compliment of teeth; said teeth receiving section includes at least one tooth receptacle, each tooth receptacle comprising a recess extending inward from a contacting surface of said contact side of said appliance base, shaped for receiving and concealing a natural, generally healthy shaped tooth and a snap-over teeth engaging interface, where, when installed each tooth receptacle conceals each respective natural, generally healthy shaped tooth of a dental patient and said snap-over teeth engaging interface that having an surface conforming to the tooth including a tooth base section wherein the snap-over feature detachably with a tooth base of each respective natural, generally healthy shaped tooth of said dental patient to removably retain said appliance base in engagement with said one of an upper jaw and a lower jaw of a dental patient; said toothless section includes at least one removable retention component carried by a patient toothless gum section contacting surface; a mating fixed retention component for implanting into one of a patient's jaw and a patient's tooth root; wherein each said removable retention component and said mating fixed retention component comprise detachable engaging attachment features to removable engaging with one another.