If you have lost several or all of your teeth, whether from periodontal disease, tooth decay or injury, dentures (false teeth) can substitute your lost teeth and give you your smile back. Substituting missing teeth with dentures will help both your look and your health. Without help from the denture, facial muscles sag and make a person seem older.
Dentures
With dentures, you will be able to take pleasure in food again and speak much more clearly, two things regularly taken for granted until natural teeth are lost. When you have missing teeth, it is vital to substitute them to preserve a healthy smile and not avoid remaining teeth from wandering into the empty spaces.
Advances in cosmetic dentistry have made a lot of developments in dentures. Dentures are now more natural-looking and much more comfy than they used to be.
Dentures can be full or partial; complete dentures cover your entire upper and lower jaw and partials substitute one or a few teeth.
There are different types of complete dentures. A usual full denture is made and positioned in the patient’s mouth after all the remaining teeth are detached and tissues have healed; this procedure may take quite a few months. An instant complete denture is put in the mouth as soon as the remaining teeth are detached. Your cosmetic dentist will take measurements and create models of your jaws during the preliminary visit. With instant dentures, the patient does not have to be without teeth during the healing period.
With full dentures, as with your natural teeth, you must perform outstanding oral hygiene. Brushing your gums, tongue and palate every morning with a soft-bristled toothbrush before you put in your dentures is needed.
If you are missing just a few teeth spread over either arch (upper or lower teeth) or if you have a minimum of two teeth on both sides of the arch, then you can substitute the missing teeth with a detachable partial denture (RPD).
A half-done denture is a detachable dental machine that substitutes numerous missing teeth. A partial can be fastened to the teeth with clasps or it can be fasten with crowns and hidden clasps. Both types have a metal framework and plastic teeth and gum areas.
Dentures significantly accelerate the aging process of the face because the distance between your nose and your chin begins to lessen as natural teeth are extracted. The bone that previously held your top natural teeth begins to move back up toward your nose, and the bone that held your lower teeth goes down, allowing both the top and bottom false teeth to follow in the same way.
Dentures don’t last forever, and patients must revisit every two years for what is called a “reline.” The longer you wear dentures, the more your gums change underneath the denture and the looser the dentures become. In order to rebuild the denture and to prevent flabby gum tissue under it, you should have the denture professionally relined every two years. Dentures typically need to be substitute every five to seven years.
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