When a bridge isn’t enough to treat your tooth loss, you may need a more substantial dental prosthetic. With a set of dentures, we can take on more severe cases and restore function, health, and beauty to your smile. In today’s blog, your Sunny Smiles team looks at our full and partial dentures, and explains the difference.
The Impact of Severe Tooth Loss
When you lose most or all of your teeth, this can severely limit your meal options and your nutritional intake too. You can have issues speaking clearly too, and your body may respond to the missing roots by limiting the flow of calcium and phosphorus to the jaw, which causes it to weaken and shrink, leading to an aged appearance. But our team can restore proper function and beauty to your smile with a set of dentures. We start by examining your smile to assess the severity of your tooth loss and if needed, to remove any remaining teeth. Next, our team will take detailed images and measurements with digital systems to design and craft your custom replacements!
Partial Dentures
A set of partials addresses multiple gaps spread out across your arch, which is too complex to be treated with a bridge, but you may have enough natural teeth that a full set is overkill. A partial contains new teeth set in an acrylic base, using lifelike materials to ensure your new teeth look natural and matching the rest of your smile. Metal clasps will attach to natural teeth to secure your denture, or we could use dental implants. With implants, your prosthetic doesn’t need to be replaced every five years, and can instead last for decades.
A Complete Set
If you’re missing most of your teeth, then we may extract the last few and take digital images that enable us to design and fabricate a full set, which contains a complete row of lifelike and durable replacement teeth set in an acrylic base. The base will look like gum tissue. We can secure these with adhesives and suction, providing removable prosthetics that last about 5 to 10 years. Our team could also secure these with one or more dental implants, which provides a fixed set of prosthetics. These will last far longer and will look and function like natural teeth, requiring no removal for soaking or cleaning.
If you have any questions about how we treat tooth loss with a set of dentures, or if you have tooth loss that needs treatment, then contact our team today to learn more. We want to help you smile with confidence again!
TALK TO OUR TEAM ABOUT COMPLETE PROSTHETICS TODAY
Talk to our team today about tackling your tooth loss with a custom set of prosthetics. To schedule an appointment with Sunny Smiles in El Paso, TX, call us at 915.759.7000.