Dentures

Complete, partial and hybrid dentures

Dentures are prosthetic devices constructed to replace missing teeth, and which are supported by surrounding soft and hard tissues of the oral cavity. Conventional dentures are removable, however there are many different denture designs, some which rely on bonding or clipping onto teeth or dental implants. There are two main categories of dentures, depending on whether they are used to replace missing teeth on the mandibular arch or the maxillary arch. There are many informal names for dentures such as dental plate, false teeth and falsies)

Visit us in the Swissdent Medical Center! Here you will meet professional dentists who simply do not substitute your lost teeth, but try the set of dentures individually for every patient aesthetically and well functioning to manufacture. The chewing function and facial aesthetics can be restored only in narrow collaboration with the patient who should keep to a special oral hygiene of the remaining teeth and the prosthesis!

Complete denture

Recommandation

After the denture was made and was used in the mouth of the patient a sometimes difficult period comes: the accustomisation. For this period the following is to be recommended:
1) You should be patient and you should know, that it can last a little bit to get used to the new situation.
2) You should try to carry at the beginning the denture permanently. Thus exists the possibility to get used faster to them.
3) Practice your facial mimicry in front of a mirror. Laugh quietly and still with full mouth!
4) At the beginning you should try to chew with the baking teeth.
5) Never try to adjust the denture independently. You can damage it strongly.

Problems with dentures include the fact that patients are not used to having something in their mouth that is not food. The brain senses this appliance as "food" and sends messages to the salivary glands to produce more saliva and to secrete it at a higher rate. New dentures will also be the inevitable cause of sore spots as they rub and press on the mucosa. A few denture adjustments for the weeks following insertion of the dentures can take care of this issue. Gagging is another problem encountered by some patients. At times, this may be due to a denture that is too loose fitting, too thick or not extended far enough posteriorly onto the soft palate. At times, gagging may also be attributed to psychological denial of the denture. (Psychological gagging is the most difficult to treat since it is out of the dentist's control. In such cases, an implant supported palateless denture may have to be constructed or a hypnotist may need to be consulted). Sometimes there could be a gingivitis under the full dentures, which is caused by accumulation of dental plaque.

According to dental loss there are different types of dentures: partial denture (the remained teeth serve for the anchorage), and complete denture (see pictures) or full dentures are worn in patients who are missing all their teeth in an arch (i.e the maxillary or mandibular arch). In the followings the different forms of the dentures will be presented: complete dentures and complete dentures with metal base or complete dentures with clear special plastic or complete dentures with grid base. By the thin hard palate more space is available for the tongue. Sometimes a metal taste can occure.