Complete
Denture
A full denture will be fitted if all your upper or lower teeth need to be removed or you’re having an old complete denture replaced.
The denture will usually be fitted as soon as your teeth are removed, which means you won’t be without teeth. The denture will fit snugly over your gums and jawbone.
But if you have dentures fitted immediately after the removal of several teeth, the gums and bone will alter in shape fairly quickly and the dentures will probably need relining or remaking after a few months.
Occasionally, your gums may need to be left to heal and alter in shape for several months before dentures can be fitted.
The dentist or clinical dental technician will try this in your mouth to assess the fit and for you to assess the appearance.
The shape and colour may be adjusted before the final denture is produced.
Partial
Dentures
A partial denture is designed to fill in the gaps left by one or more missing teeth. It’s a plastic, nylon or metal plate with a number of false teeth attached to it.
It usually clips onto some of your natural teeth via metal clasps, which hold it securely in place in your mouth. It can easily be unclipped and removed.
Occasionally, the clips can be made of a tooth- or gum-coloured material, although this type of clip isn’t always suitable because it tends to be more brittle than metal.
Your dentist can measure your mouth and order a partial denture for you, or you can see a qualified clinical dental technician, who can provide a partial denture for you.
Cobalt Chrome
CoCr
Cobalt chrome dentures have a metal base plate or framework that sits on and around the natural teeth onto which we attach denture teeth with acrylic.
Due to the strength of manufacturing materials, it is possible to achieve constructions that we cannot accomplish with an acrylic denture.
Because of chrome dentures using a clasp to secure to existing teeth, they can leave your top palette uncovered. Compared to acrylic dentures this offers greater comfort and enjoyment when eating and drinking.
Cobalt chrome dentures are comfortable, the most hygienic and hugely strong. They are smaller, thinner and more streamlined than their acrylic counterparts. Oral hygiene will be improved because there will be less food debris and plaque build due to the tighter fit.
Mouth Guards
& Mouth Splints
If you grind your teeth while you’re asleep, it may help to wear a mouth guard or mouth splint at night.
Mouth guards and splints even out the pressure across your jaw and create a physical barrier between your upper and lower teeth to protect them from further damage. They can also reduce any grinding noises you make at night.
Mouth guards are similar to those used in sports such as boxing or rugby. They’re rubber or plastic and can be made by a dentist to fit your mouth. You can also buy a mouth guard from a pharmacist, but it’s unlikely to fit as well as a custom-made one.
A mouth splint is made from harder plastic and fits precisely over your upper or lower teeth. They’re no more effective than mouth guards in reducing the symptoms of teeth grinding. But they’re more expensive as they last for several years, whereas mouth guards usually only last for less than a year.
Valplast Flexible
Denture
When considering a removable partial, many people find a Valplast Flexible Partial to be the most comfortable option, and the final restoration can be made very quickly. While the cost is often higher than a partial made with visible metal clasps, the results of the flexible partial are beautiful, and patient satisfaction is very high. The Valplast Flexible Partial gives you confidence in your restoration while talking ,eating and most importantly, smiling.
Valplast Flexible Partials are made from a Nylon material and are custom made precisely to the patients mouth, with the aim of making them discreet, thin and flexible than conventional acrylic dentures , this makes the overall Flexible Partial feel smaller, easy to adapt to and virtually unbreakable due to it’s Flexible nature.
Benefits of Valplast Flexible Partials:
- Comfortable
- Aesthetics
- Accurately fitting
- Flexible
Other
Denture Services
A MICHIGAN SPLINT
A Michigan Splint is an Oral Appliance that covers all the teeth in either the maxilla (upper jaw) or mandible (lower jaw) and is therefore termed a “full-coverage splint”. It is manufacture in a hard resin such as poly-methyl-methacrylate.
The Michigan Splint is made of 3mm in thickness for a number of reasons. By being thick it remains strong and less liable to fracture when worn with the heavy bite forces applied. It has sufficient thickness to allow for careful spot grinding to customise the biting surface to achieve a truly even bite with contacts present around the entire arch, and sufficient thickness exists to retain splint material for the canine teeth to slide on when the mandible is moved sideways into what is called either left or right lateral excursions. In these sideways movements of the jaw, the posterior teeth should ideally be slightly apart while contact remains anteriorly in the canine region and thereby excessive lateral pressure on posterior teeth, fillings or crowns is avoided. This is what is called a “canine-protected occlusion”.
ORTHODENTIC APPLIANCES
Orthodontic treatment uses appliances to correct the position of teeth.
The 4 main types are:
- fixed braces – a brace you cannot remove which is made up of brackets that are glued to the front of each tooth and linked with wires
- removable braces – usually plastic plates that cover the roof of the mouth and clip on to some teeth; these can only be used to achieve very limited tooth movements
- functional appliances – usually a pair of removable plastic braces that are joined together or designed to interact together and fit on to both the upper and lower teeth
- headgear – this is not an orthodontic appliance, but it can be used with other appliances and is usually worn at night.
DENTURE REPAIR AND ADJUSTMNT
Repairs may be required when breakage or damage occurs, when one or more teeth need to be added to an existing denture (due to tooth extraction), or because of wear and tear. Denture teeth and clasps can often be added to existing partial dentures when natural teeth are lost.
Dentures can usually be repaired to their pre-broken state if they are brought into the clinic immediately following an accident. The biggest mistake denture wearers do when they encounter a crack or a missing tooth is to crazy glue it or attempt an at-home remedy to fix it. Denture repairs need to be re-bonded, using the same material it was made out of, using a very particular process. Crazy glue can damage the denture and sometimes deem it non-repairable. A proper repair requires addition of new denture base (pink) material to the repair area and may require an intra-oral impression by the Denturist prior to the repair.
Bring your broken denture (and all missing or broken parts) into our professionals to help you fix your denture properly.
If your denture requires a repair, it may indicate underlying problems associated with the age, condition or ill-fit of your denture(s). You will be offered a free consultation to determine how to prevent this from being a recurring problem in the future. Have your denture assessed every 2 years to avoid preventable problems and embarrassment of a denture mishap.
DENTURE RELINING
Over time the shape of your gums and the bones that support the dentures can change, which means they may no longer fit properly. Relining is a method of adjusting the internal part of the base of the dentures with an acrylic resin to correct their fit. This technique doesn’t alter the appearance of the dentures; it simply adapts the base to suit the changing shape of your gums. The Clinical Dental Technician will take an impression of your gums using your dentures, and in some cases you will not need to be without them.
The procedure involves:
- Removing some of the plastic from the fitting surface of your denture
- Placing a layer of soft impression material onto this trimmed surface
- Repositioning inside your mouth to take an impression of your gums
- Using this accurate impression to create a new hard or soft base
Not all dentures can be relined—have yours assessed today to determine if a reline is right for you!
Teeth Whitening
Teeth whitening is a simple and effective process that lightens the shade of enamel and dentin of natural teeth. With the use of a custom-made whitening tray and the latest in natural teeth whitening technology, you can have whiter, brighter teeth. The whitening process uses a peroxide-based gel retained in a custom-fitted appliance that is worn over your natural teeth.
What causes tooth discolouration?
There are several causes of tooth discolouration, the most common being aging and staining substances (coffee, tea, colas, tobacco, red wine).
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