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Dentures

Full Dentures may be your only feasible reconstruction option due to the severity of dental break down and/or financial situations.

Upper Dentures, after an initial period of healing, can be fabricated to be reasonable, retentive and very cosmetic.  Most individuals can adapt to wearing an upper denture.  The only exception would be those with a severely worn ridge (due to long time wear or excessive bone removal during extractions) or individuals with a severe gag reflex that would prevent covering the roof of the mouth.  In either case retention of the denture with an open palate can be attached with implants or healthy root attachments.

Lower Dentures on the other hand, routinely need to be held down to the lower jaw to allow for normal function and speaking..  Implants or healthy roots can be utilized to keep the denture in place.  Locator attachments of ERA attachments are routinely used to snap lower dentures down.  Existing, floating lower dentures also can be snapped down in one minor surgical appointment if enough bone is present and the dentures are good fitting.

A typical treatment scenario is as follows for a patient needing tooth removal and denture placement.

• Impressions are taken for transitional (temporary) dentures and a bite is done.
• Consents are signed and oral sedation medications are given.
• In deep sedation appointments, all remaining hopeless teeth are removed and dentures are inserted.  Root canal treatment (remove the nerve) is done on two to four healthy roots and routinely retained on the lower to snap in the denture.
• The lower transitional denture is locked down to the retained roots or implants can be placed and the denture immediately snapped down.
• The patient is discharged with immediately inserted full upper denture and a lower snap in over-denture.
• After healing for 4-6 months, the final upper and lower dentures are fabricated and delivered.

> Please see “Over-Dentures” in our picture gallery