Denture Facts and Tips

Here at Margolian Dentistry, we often see patients with missing teeth and who choose to replace them with dentures. Dentures are a tried and tested way to restore a person’s smile and ability to eat confidently. It’s incredibly common to wear dentures lots of people need to wear dentures, and there are two different types.

Full or Partial Dentures

A full or complete denture can replace all the natural teeth in a person’s upper or lower jaw. If you have a partial denture, it fills in the spaces left by one or more missing teeth in either arch. Dentures are designed to give the right support to your cheeks and lips, preventing facial muscles from sagging inwards, which can be prematurely ageing.

Custom-Made to Fit Your Mouth

Each denture is custom-made to fit your mouth, so it fits securely around your gums, providing the maximum amount of retention, so they stay firmly in place. Dentures in Oshawa are made using impressions of your mouth, and we also take detailed measurements to ensure they are the right size, restoring the correct amount of space between your upper and lower jaws. We have a huge range of denture teeth in all sorts of different shapes, sizes and shades to choose from, and often denture teeth can look better than the originals when replacing broken down and decayed teeth.

Restoring Your Ability to Eat Properly

We take considerable care to design dentures, so it is easy to eat properly, making sure they function correctly. While dentures in Whitby do not have the same biting strength as natural teeth, it is still possible to enjoy a good range of foods.

Tips for Taking Care of Your Dentures

It is important to care for your dentures properly as if you fail to keep them clean, it can lead to poor oral health. For example, one problem caused by a lack of cleanliness is denture stomatitis, where fungus or yeast called candida builds up over the denture surfaces.

Dentures must be cleaned each day mechanically, using a special denture brush and denture cleaner that is nonabrasive. Using toothpaste is too abrasive for a denture and could damage it. Your dentures can break if you drop them, so always clean them over a towel or bowl of water. They also need to be soaked every day in a denture cleaning solution, which helps disinfect the denture and eliminate remaining dental plaque. Finally, it is important to leave your dentures out overnight to give your gums a chance to rest.

As your dentures get older, you may notice they fit less securely than before as your gums and the bone underneath change shape. Although one solution is to use denture adhesive to help improve retention, another option might be to reline the fitting surface of the denture so it hugs your gums more securely and is easier to keep in place.

When you take care of your dentures properly, they should last five years or longer before you need to replace them. However, it is still important to visit your Ajax dentist regularly for checkups, even if you have no remaining teeth. We can check the condition of your denture and check your oral health to make sure your mouth remains healthy.

What are the Alternatives to Dentures?

If you can’t get on with wearing dentures and find them increasingly difficult to use or have failing teeth and dislike the thought of wearing dentures, an alternative might be implant teeth. We can use dental implants to eliminate dentures, replacing them with a fixed dental bridge. Another option is to secure a denture in the mouth with dental implants, increasing your biting strength and ensuring the denture cannot move.

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