When tooth loss is too severe for a bridge, you may need a partial or a full denture. These prosthetics will be custom-made to offer a lifelike appearance and a durable solution to advanced tooth loss. In today’s blog, your Kansas City, MO, dentist talks about our custom dentures.
The Causes and Dangers of Missing Teeth
As we touched on above, dentures are meant for people with more severe cases of tooth loss, situations too advanced for a bridge to tackle. When you have tooth loss so advanced, this could severely limit your meal options and deprive you of essential nutrients. Your missing teeth could also strain your jaw joints so complications like TMJ disorder and bruxism (teeth grinding) are more common. There could be issues speaking clearly, and your remaining teeth could shift to cause misalignment. But with our custom prosthetics, we can offer a full smile and help prevent these complications.
Full and Partials
To begin, we will examine your smile to understand the causes of your tooth loss. We may need to help manage issues like gum disease, and you could have teeth that require extraction. Our team will then take detailed images of your smile, which we use in a lab setting to design your dentures. If you have multiple gaps across your smile, we could offer a partial, which contains new teeth that fit in these gaps. The prosthetic is held in place with metal clasps that are invisible when your new teeth are in place. If you have lost most or all of your teeth, we could prescribe a full. The denture will contain a complete row of new and lifelike teeth, all set in an acrylic base that looks like gum tissue. Suction or adhesives will help keep your denture secretly in place.
Caring For Your New Teeth
We will provide detailed instructions for caring for your new smile. With a partial, you still have natural teeth that need to be brushed and flossed daily. With both options, you will need to regularly soak and clean your prosthetics to keep them strong and pliable. With proper care, they could last as long as ten years, requiring replacement when your jaw ridge changes shape. If you have any questions about how we tackle tooth loss with a custom dental prosthetic, then contact our team today to learn more. We want to help you smile without hesitation again, and enjoy your favorite dishes as well!
Learn More About Prosthetic Dentistry
We want to help correct your uneven smile and offer lifelike results, so you can enjoy optimal oral health and a beautiful smile. Schedule your appointment with Delightful Dental Care in Kansas City, MO by calling 816-942-7669.