What are Dentures?

Dentures are a removable plate or frame that holds artificial teeth. If you have lost some or all of your natural teeth due to trauma or decay, dentures can be used to replace your missing teeth. Complete or partial dentures can replace your missing teeth and give you the confidence to smile. Not only do dentures help with eating food, they help support facial muscles that may atrophy in the absence of teeth, leading to sagging and the appearance of aging. Dentures may also restore pronunciation in speech lost from missing teeth.

Types of Dentures

Full Dentures- Full dentures are plates or frames that are filled with a full set of artificial teeth or either jaws, top or bottom.

Partial Dentures- A removable partial denture usually consists of replacement teeth attached to a pink or gum-colored plastic base, which is connected by metal framework that holds the denture in place in the mouth. Partial dentures are used when one or more natural teeth remain in the upper or lower jaw.

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