Your smile is among the first features people notice when they meet you. This means having a good smile makes you more receptive and confident when interacting with people. It is challenging for dental procedures to be regarded as essential as they are typically not life-threatening. This has discouraged many people from taking dental problems seriously as they do not affect how they go about their daily activities. There are many types of dental solutions, including dentures Bala Cynwyd. More about dentures and what they do is discussed in detail below.

What are Dentures?

These portable devices act as replacements for lost teeth and associated tissues. Complete dentures are used when you are missing all your teeth, and partial dentures are placed when a few of your original teeth remain.

Complete Dentures

This type of denture is also classified into immediate or conventional types. Conventional dentures are usually formed after you have had your teeth removed and the tissue of your gums has started to heal. It is typically ready to be used by the mouth eight to ten weeks after removing your teeth.

Immediate dentures, unlike conventional ones, are made before teeth removal and can be placed as soon as you remove them. Therefore, the healing period does not have to involve the patient lacking teeth.

Your gums and teeth usually shrink over time after removing teeth and during the following healing period. This gives immediate dentures a disadvantage over conventional ones in that, throughout the healing period, more adjustments to the dentures are required. Therefore, they are only a temporary fix until conventional dentures are made.

Partial Dentures

This removable partial bridge is made of a plastic base colored like your gum with artificial teeth fixed on them. A metal framework sometimes connects the plastic base to keep the denture in its place in the mouth. They are used when some of your natural teeth remain in the lower or upper jaw.

A fixed bridge replaces several teeth by putting crowns on the teeth of either side of the space and placing artificial teeth on them. The bridge is cemented down as the partial denture fills the spaces from the teeth, missing and inhibiting other teeth from moving around. A precision partial denture can be removed and contains attachments within instead of clasps placed on the adjacent crowns making it look more natural.

Creating dentures is a process that requires a few appointments over several weeks. Your dentist first examines your situation to determine the best. They then:

  •         Make multiple jaw impressions while measuring your jaws’ association and space between each other
  •         Wax forms, models, or plastic patterns in the same position and shape as the denture are created
  •         Adjustments for the model are made after several fittings, and a final denture is made

Dentures are typically made to resemble your natural teeth, and only keen observers will be able to notice the slight change in appearance. They may even enhance your smile and facial appearance. For any denture concerns, visit us online, or call our offices in Bala Cynwyd, PA.