A denture is a removable dental appliance and a set of false teeth used to replace missing teeth which is designed to look and function like natural teeth.
Types of Dentures
There are two types of dentures:
- Complete Dentures: These types of dentures are used when you loose all the teeth.
- Partial Denture: These types of dentures are used when you loose some of the teeth.
Benefits of Dentures
- It benefits your appearance as without dental support facial muscles sag.
- Helps in to speak and chew food properly.
- Saves the existing teeth from gliding to the place of missing teeth
- It returns you your lost confidence
Why you need to clean your Dentures daily?
Be sure to clean your dentures daily to prevent mouth odor and plaque build-ups which lead to dental and oral diseases.
How to take care of your Dentures?
- Follow the cleaning, brushing and other instructions strictly told by your dentist.
- Keep your dentures clean all times.
- Remove your dentures at night to give rest to gums and to reduce pressure on the underlying tissues and bone or follow the removal procedure as directed by your dentist.
- Use special cleaning tablets to clean your dentures. Take recommendation from your dentist regarding this.
- Whenever you take out your dentures, keep them in water to prevent them from distorting and drying out.
- Avoid soaking or rinsing them in hot water.
- Be sure not use any hard or sharp instruments to clean build ups.
- Do keep them away from children and pets.
Important Note:
- If you see any type build ups such as debris and stains that can’t be removed by you’re the normal cleaning techniques, visit your dentist and get it professionally cleaned.
- If you feel that your dentures are not fitting properly, immediately visit your dentist.
