It’s a hard pill to swallow when you lose all your teeth. It alters how you look in the mirror and plays havoc with what you eat every day. You just want a simple way to get your routine back on track without a lot of stress. Considering Full Dentures is an excellent first step to feeling like yourself again. Modern false teeth are much better than the heavy versions made decades ago. Dental labs use light acrylics to create completely realistic gums. They contour and form each tooth individually to resemble a normal everyday smile. Most of the people you meet will never even suspect you are wearing a plate. A short learning curve is common when you first bring a new plate home. Your mouth is hypersensitive, and it instantly registers this huge new thing sitting there. You may drool a little or feel a bit sore on your gums. That awkward phase is normal, and it will go away as your mouth adjusts to it. The first few weeks of eating with your new plate will take a little practice. You c...
A tooth breaking off on a partial or a denture snapping in half feels like a bigger crisis than it really is. Dental repairs are generally easier to fix than patients think, and, short of severe damage, a replacement is not usually the first choice for a lab. One of the most common types of fractures are midline ones, which generally occur either because of normal chewing pressure that has been applied over a period of time, or as a consequence of an accidental fall onto a hard surface. How the repair is done depends on putting the broken pieces back together accurately technicians line up the fragments, secure them, and use that alignment to guide the rebuild, so a clean break is actually easier to fix well than one with several small missing fragments. A broken or displaced tooth is a little different. If the tooth itself is undamaged, it can usually be repositioned and cemented back into the denture base. If it is cracked or missing altogether, a matching replacement tooth is ...