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Caring For Your Dentures

Not everyone's teeth are perfect. This is totally understandable. As a person goes through life, he or she may experience a certain chain of events that lead to deterioration in the natural teeth. Or in some other cases, accidents involving severe sudden impacts may result in the need for dental prosthesis to replace the unusable natural teeth.

Dentures are a device that has been around for a while now, designed to improve the life of those unfortunate enough to lose their own teeth. The two major situations that dentures can help with are eating and social interaction. In the former, denture users can chew allowing them enjoy solid food. As for the latter, denture users can smile widely with a complete set of teeth as supposed to facing the embarrassment of exposing their toothless gums to people.

The major disadvantage with ordinary dentures is their lack of fit on the gum. During use, they are simply placed directly onto the gums of the user. For the upper jaw, this is less of an issue, but for the lower jaw, the general consensus is that the dentures tend to move. The consequence of this is a certain level of discomfort whilst chewing - there is friction between the dentures and the gums. Also, there is a chance of them popping out if the user laughs too hard, which can be a very awkward situation.

A different technology was introduced to tackle this shortfall - denture implants. Rather than using dentures on the gums directly, metal posts are first implanted into the jawbone under the gums and then special dentures with sockets to match the posts are snapped in place onto the posts. As such, the fit is much better, reducing discomfort and therefore improving the user's quality of life.

Of course, this process, as you can imagine, requires surgery and therefore must involve a specialist dental surgeon. There are a number of steps required for the entire treatment including an initial visit the surgeon, analysis of dental history and current jaw structure (and nerves that may interfere with implants), and then surgery. Normally, there are two surgeries needed - the first is to place the implants into the jawbone; after the operated area has healed, the second surgery exposes the ends of the screws. All this could easily be around 6 months and this excludes any other surgeries that may be needed for the user's particular case.

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