Dentures – Harker Heights, TX
A Comprehensive Solution to Major Tooth Loss
As you might already know, tooth loss can dramatically affect your daily life. It leaves most people struggling to eat, speak, and even smile, causing problems at every turn. That said, you can trust dentures in Harker Heights as the best solution for your missing teeth. These prosthetics will quickly restore your whole smile, improving your quality of life as a result. Just keep reading to learn more about them, or book a visit to our office soon!
Why Choose Market Heights Family Dental for Dentures?
- Designed Using Advanced Digital Impression Technology
- Kind and Caring Dentists and Team Members
- Friendly Dental Office That Caters to Families
Who’s a Good Candidate for Dentures?
If you’re an adult with missing teeth, you’re very likely to qualify for dentures. It also doesn’t matter whether your tooth loss is mild or severe; even the emptiest smiles can get care. All that said, you should still consult Drs. Tochterman and Pundt before you decide anything. They’ll gladly confirm whether you’re a good candidate for dentures, as well as see what’d help you qualify. To get more details, simply keep reading or call us.
Effects of Missing Teeth
As you consider your candidacy, please reflect on the nature of missing teeth. Doing so should help you see how dentures could (or couldn’t) help your grin.
Cases of tooth loss can point to various potential causes. To give an example, your teeth may have fallen out because of cavities or pulp-related infections. Another idea would be that you lost a tooth due to gum disease, which weakens the tissues supporting your smile. Some patients can also have teeth knocked out by injuries, accidents, and so on.
The effects of tooth loss aren’t as wide-ranging as its causes. For instance, nearly everyone with missing teeth will struggle to eat, speak, or smile effectively. They’ll also experience tilting teeth and jaw erosion without treatment, not to mention bacterial buildup.
What Qualifies You for Dentures?
Since nearly any adult with tooth loss can get dentures, qualifying for treatment isn’t hard. Most patients don’t have to jump through the hoops of strict requirements. However, there are three key candidacy facts you should keep in mind.
The first is that only patients with healthy smiles can use dentures. As for the reason, it’s simple: weak gums and jawbones would cause the restorations to slip around. You’ll thus need strong gum and jaw tissues to keep a denture stable; treatment won’t work otherwise.
Secondly, the type of denture you get will depend on how many teeth you’ve lost. A patient who only lacks a few pearly whites will only require a partial model. In contrast, patients who’ve lost all their teeth are best suited for full dentures.
The last fact is that finances impact the treatment process. Often enough, dentures draw attention because they’re less expensive than other options but work well regardless. Patients who want cost-effective care are thus especially suited for them.
Alternative Tooth-Replacement Options
You don’t need to worry if you don’t (initially) qualify for dentures. In that scenario, we can provide you with other restoration options:
- Dental Bridges – A dental bridge is a fixed restoration made of dental crowns fused to a pontic (i.e., an artificial tooth). As such, dentists must alter nearby natural teeth (i.e., abutments) to place this device and “restore” up to four adjacent teeth at once.
- Dental Implants – Unlike dentures or dental bridges, dental implants are small titanium posts set in the jaw’s empty sockets. They fuse with your jaw over time to become highly secure prosthetic teeth.
Types of Dentures
With our team’s approval, we will suggest you get one of three types of dentures. These kinds include:
Partial Dentures
Partial dentures (per their name) only replace a few teeth. Being made of pink acrylic bases and color-matched teeth, they work by fitting over your gums or clasping onto nearby mouth structures. The result is that they naturally blend with your smile and work best for mild tooth loss.
Full Dentures
Unlike a partial model, a full denture replaces an entire arch’s worth of teeth at once. That means it doesn’t clasp onto nearby natural teeth; it only uses suction or adhesives for support. Still, the device uses the same acrylic base and artificial teeth as other dentures; it thus fits snugly and blends seamlessly.
Implant Dentures
We advise implant dentures for patients who want a permanent tooth-loss fix. Compared to traditional kinds, they secure themselves with dental implants – posts that act as alternate tooth roots. These implants fuse with your jaw to stabilize the whole denture, ensuring excellent restoration results. You can thus expect an implant denture to work like natural teeth and last for many years.
The Benefits of Dentures
Since tooth loss causes all sorts of problems, it can make everyday life quite a challenge. Those affected often find tasks they typically take for granted much harder than usual. With that said, you can trust dentures from Market Height Family Dental to address these obstacles. Their effects counteract your missing teeth to ensure you have a great quality of life! As for the specific benefits of dentures, keep reading or call us in the coming days.
Psychological Benefits
Because it affects your looks, tooth loss is often bad for your mental health. Knowing your grin has unseemly gaps can prompt self-esteem issues, depression, and so on. Thankfully, our office’s dentures prevent such moods by restoring your full smile. As they fill the gaps between your remaining teeth, they should help you feel more confident and self-assured. You also won’t have to worry as much about your speech, eating ability, etc.
Clearer Enunciation
You need teeth to enunciate words, so losing them makes talking hard. Even missing a few can lead to issues like a severe lisp, slurred speech, and more. The good news is dentures treat the enunciation problem by replacing (and acting as) your lost teeth. These restorations will support your tongue enough to form words properly, ensuring you can speak well. You just have to practice with them a bit first; it takes time to talk clearly with dentures.
Improves Nutrition
Often enough, long-term tooth loss causes you to have a poor diet. It forces you to restrict your meal choices, as most foods can only be chewed with all your teeth. However, dentures solve this dilemma by giving you strong and sturdy substitutes. Their prosthetic teeth can help you chew more effectively, meaning you’d get to enjoy a broader range of foods than before. The long-term effect would be a higher level of nutritional health.
Preserves Oral Health
As it goes untreated, tooth loss further damages your oral health. It leaves you with smile gaps that tilt your remaining teeth, house harmful bacteria, and even erode your jawbone. Still, dentures would protect and preserve your oral health as they fill your grin’s gaps. They’d thus reduce the tilting of nearby teeth and keep many nasty microbes out of your mouth. Even better, they’d slow the rate at which your jawbone erodes.
Expands Opportunities
A beautiful smile is key to a good first impression, so tooth loss can hamper your social connections. That means your missing teeth can make you miss out on great things – friendships, romances, etc. Even so, rest assured that dentures will restore your ability to make good impressions. By restoring your smile with lifelike and natural-looking teeth, they’d make connecting with others easier. That improvement would lead to more great opportunities than ever.