Replacement teeth you can love
It’s hard to get excited at the prospect of having false teeth; there have been that many comedy sketches about them popping out and dancing around on the table, but with dentures in Richmond that are secured with dental implants, you may really get to love your new teeth.
If you are thinking about getting dentures in Richmond for the first time, then you may well be having mixed emotions about the whole thing. On the one hand, it would be lovely to have a mouth full of decent-looking teeth again. On the other, teeth that start to slide around or that aren’t strong and stable enough to cope with eating really interesting food may not be such a bonus.
However, there is a way to get the best out of your new dentures in Richmond, and that is by getting them stabilised with dental implants. Here at Sheen Dental Implants, we highly recommend this course of action for those of you whom for either financial or jawbone-health reasons cannot just use dental implants.
Why dentures wobble
Dentures are removable false teeth that get their stability by adhering through suction to the gums. Dental technicians usually go to a lot of trouble to make sure the denture fits well, but you will know how much stability suction can give. Ever tried hanging a wet tea towel of a hook that’s got a suction cap on a tiled wall? At their best, dentures give about 25% of the chewing power of natural teeth, even when they fit really well to the gums.
Unfortunately, as soon as there are teeth missing from the jawbone, and it receives no stimulation from tremors in the now-gone tooth roots, the bone starts to dissolve itself, and very quickly shrinks in size. Gums also recede. This means that over time, your dentures will no longer grip the jawbone as before and that’s when the wobbling starts.
Two to four dental implants per jaw can provide the stability your dentures need at a fraction of the price of normal dental implants. We can either customise your current dentures to go on top or make you a set of new ones.