Pros and cons of removable dentures
- Precautions for Removable Dentures
Advantages of removable dentures
Less abrasion of dental tissue.
️Patients can take off and wear it by themselves, easy to wash and clean. ️Easy to make, relatively low cost. ️Easy to repair
Disadvantages of removable denture
Removable partial denture is large in size and has many parts, it will have a strong sense of foreign body when you wear it for the first time, sometimes it will affect the pronunciation and even cause nausea. ️ Insufficient stability and chewing efficiency. ️ need to take off and wear and clean after meals, and need to take off and clean and save before going to bed every night, which is relatively troublesome. ️If the patient’s oral hygiene habits are poor, it can also bring mucosal damage, ulcers, periodontitis and so on.
Precautions for Removable Dentures
- When wearing the denture for the first time, the patient will have a foreign body sensation, there may also be nausea, unclear pronunciation and other phenomena, these are normal, the patient should insist on wearing, usually 1-2 weeks later, the above symptoms will disappear.
- If the patient feels pain after wearing the denture for the first time, he/she should go to the hospital in time for follow-up, and wear the denture for at least 2 hours before going to the hospital, so that the doctor can analyze the cause of the pain and change the denture.
- When wearing denture with clasps, the teeth should not be clenched into position, the clasps should correspond to the position of the teeth, and the denture should be pressed into position with the fingers; when the denture needs to be taken down, it is not necessary to push and pull the denture violently, and the fingers should be pushed down the clasps in order to take down the denture.
- It is recommended to remove the denture for cleaning after meals, and at night when sleeping, remove the denture and soak it in cool white water or pure water, in which denture cleaning tablets can be put.
- It is recommended that the denture be reviewed once a year so that the doctor can adjust and maintain the denture according to the actual situation.
