When you have minor tooth loss, we may suggest a dental bridge. But if you have lost a number of your natural teeth, you may need a dental prosthetic. With full and partial dentures, we can address tooth loss with lifelike results. In today’s blog, your Kansas City, MO, dentist talks about how we create custom dentures.
The Impact of Tooth Loss
Losing the majority of your teeth could lead to serious trouble in your daily life. You may feel embarrassed and avoid social interactions, which harms your overall quality of life. Missing teeth could limit your meal options, depriving you of nutrients as you subsist only on soft foods. Tooth loss could also complicate your ability to speak clearly. To avoid these complications, we want to offer replacement for your missing teeth. To begin, we will examine your smile to assess the cause and severity of your tooth loss. We can offer care to manage the underlying factors, and then create custom prosthetics, such as full and partial dentures.
Partials
If you have a complicated case of tooth loss, which could include multiple gaps in your smile spread out across the arch, you have a situation too severe for a bridge but not severe enough to require a full set of dentures. We can help with a partial. Our team will take detailed digital images and measurements of your smile, using the information to design and craft a set of prosthetics. Your new teeth will be made from lifelike ceramic and shaded to blend with the smile. They will be fixed to an acrylic base that looks like gum tissue, and metal clasps will attach to natural teeth to secure your new ones firmly in place. They tend to last about 5 to 10 years before replacement is needed as the jaw ridge changes shape.
Full Dentures
What if you are missing most of your teeth? In this situation, our team will gently extract the last few teeth and take detailed images and measurements of your smile, which we again use to design and fabricate your new teeth. The full will contain a complete row of new teeth set in an acrylic base. Suction or adhesives will keep your new teeth secure, and we will provide instructions for soaking and cleaning them properly. If you have any questions about dentures, or if you want to start the journey to a full smile, then contact our team today to learn more. We want you to smile without hesitation again!
Schedule An Appointment for Our Dental Prosthetics
We want to offer a solution for your advanced tooth loss with custom dental prosthetics. Schedule an appointment with Delightful Dental in Kansas City, MO, today at 816-942-7669 today.