Are you looking for quality life and your same beautiful smile again, after teeth loss? Yes!  You can surely have them back, with the facility of quality Dentures. Now you don’t need to be homebound anymore because of embarrassing fewer teeth and thus can bring life back to normal with few adaptations.

Dentures being prosthetic devices are designed to replace your missing teeth by the support of surrounding soft and hard tissues in your mouth. They can either be removable or fixed. Moreover they are available in both forms, be it; partial dentures (for few missing teeth) or complete dentures (for complete teeth loss).

Perks of using dentures

Dentures are not virtual teeth yet they can help people through in many ways

Chewing and Mastication made easy

Now crushing and grinding food without natural teeth is no more a myth because of improvement in edentulous areas with denture teeth. But still it is preferable to eat soft food with dentures as they are not your natural teeth.

Availability of Aesthetic Beauty

Dentures are necessary as missing teeth collapse jaw line and hence facial appearance. They also provide support to lips and cheeks and revive your aesthetic beauty.

Improving Pronunciation skills

Loss of anterior teeth, especially, makes it difficult for people to pronounce a few words and hence becomes a communication barrier. But with dentures you can improve pronunciation of words having sibilants and fricatives. Keep practicing at home for your pronunciation with dentures, for avoiding any embarrassment in your surroundings. 

Building self confidence and self esteem

When one gets improved looks and speaking ability social interaction becomes easy. Yes! Believe it, you can come out of your shells and become extroverts with the confidence you need.

Materialization of dreams always come at a cost

Natural teeth are surely an amenity of life and have no comparison but science has developed the concept of false teeth- dentures with some adjustments as they are not real or divine. So having dentures can fulfill your dream but surely at a cost which is, taking long-term care of your dentures as one does for one’s natural teeth.

Caring your dentures for oral hygiene

Once you get your dentures; fixed or temporary ones, you need to be very cautious because dentures can become debacles if not taken care of. Here are some problems you may come across due to dentures. For instance,

• You might have plaque, tartar and growth of bacteria in your dentures. So cleaning them regularly is mandatory. 
• Continuous wearing of dentures especially when asleep is prohibited as it may lead to fungal infections, more likely denture related-Stomatitis.
• Remove your dentures while smoking because heat can damage denture acrylic which can lead to burning of your mouth’s soft tissues.
• Prohibit microbial attack on your dentures because of food accumulation through cleaning them properly or you will become a victim of Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). 
• Rinse your mouth before and after putting temporary dentures in your mouth to avoid any sort of oral disease or inflammation.

Cleaning dentures using different techniques

As we brush our natural teeth twice a day, one must clean one’s dentures regularly. As Martin H. Fishcer says, If a patient doesn’t clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him. There are some techniques that should be followed for cleaning dentures.

Brushing dentures with soaps for cleaning

American Dental association recommends cleaning of dentures with soap, water and nylon toothbrush, having a small head and enabling brushing to reach all areas of the dentures. As per the association brushing dentures with toothpaste would be too harsh for them.

Using Immersion cleaners

Do you know about immersion cleaners? They are really effective for cleaning your teeth. Soak your toothbrush in an immersion cleaner along with the use of soap and clean your dentures. Not only cleaning, it will also protect soft linings of the dentures from deterioration by microbial attack and plaque accumulation.

1. Cleaning with bleaches and alkaline solutions
   • You can also immerse your dentures in liquid bleaches for instance sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) for cleaning purposes. Bleach can remove non-viable organisms and other food deposits if applied on dentures for 6 hours. Likewise effervescent solutions including peroxides and persulphates can safely remove bacteria and protect acrylic resin from deterioration.
2. Cleaning with acids
   • More often calculus is accumulated on dentures, so to remove it you can use sulphamic acid. This acid has very good compatibility with materials used in denture formation. Likewise hypochloride is yet another acid cleanser for the same purpose.

Other denture cleaning methods

Enzyme ultrasonic cleaners and microwave exposures are also effective cleaning methods. Moreover putting your dentures in dishwashers is yet another way of cleaning.

Maintenance of Dentures, deemed vital

Merely having dentures would not enhance your beauty, continuous care and maintenance would make the difference. Therefore, follow the denture cleaning methods to fulfill your dream of having a beautiful charismatic smile, pearl like teeth and total oral hygiene even in your old age.