Nowadays people who want to get back their smile and mouth functionalities have several possibilities to choose from. Everything depend on their health condition and economical possibilities. The most used dental prosthesis are those patients can take out of the mouth to clean them: there are called conventional dentures and are removable.
But what if you still have some of your natural teeth in the mouth and you don’t want to remove them ? in this case dentistry can offer you two different solutions. First, you can replace your missing teeth with a removable partial denture made of a metal framework, false gingiva and resin teeth. The metal framework is required because it keeps the prosthesis firmly in place but it has some disadvantages: you have to get used with a palatal or a sublingual metal bar. In addition, metal partial dentures are visible because the metal hooks anchor to the natural teeth. The positive side is that this type of dental prosthesis are the most affordable.
In case you want a more aesthetic result, the solution is to go with nylon dentures also called flexible because, unlike those described above, nylon denture do not have metal parts. In place of metal hooks, flexible dentures use special nylon attachments that go around your natural teeth and they are invisible because they take the color of your gingiva.
At the beginning of the article we said that the possibilities to replace your missing teeth depend on your health condition. In fact, patients who can undergo oral surgery procedures can also think to get mini dental implants to stabilize their conventional dentures or get normal implants and a full dental arch like a Toronto bridge or an overdenture.
Before the patient can take his/her choice, the dentist has to examine his/her mouth taking x-rays exam to evaluate the bone quantity and quality. Only after this initial examination it is possible to know what are the procedure option the patient can choose from.
