Full dentures replace all of the upper and/or lower teeth. While nothing is as good as sound and healthy natural teeth, dentures have enabled millions of people to chew and smile years after their natural teeth have been lost due to disease or accident.
There are several steps involved in the fabrication of a denture and one must learn to chew and smile with new dentures, much like learning to ride a bike. And once a patient learns to wear proper fitting dentures, they quickly become a more normal part of the patient, much like wearing shoes.
Steps in Making A Denture
There are many many steps in the proper fabrication of a denture that involve the dentist, patient, and dental laboratory technicians. The steps below will give you some idea of what is involved:
The patient receives a thorough exam to determine their suitability for dentures
An impression or "print" is made of the gum ridge with a soft material.
Plaster models are made from the impressions.
Randy waxing teeth onto the models.
Teeth have all been added then the gums are waxed up.
The waxed up dentures ready for a fitting or "try-in" to check the fit, bite, and smile.
Waxed up teeth in flasks.
Teeth ready for acrylic.
Scott processing teeth.
Scott pressing models.
The waxed up dentures are processed into durable acrylic.
The finished acrylic dentures ready for delivery.
- The finished denture is delivered to the patient to smile again.
- Another Happy Patient
An impression or "print" is made of the gum ridge with a soft material.
Plaster models are made from the impressions.
Randy waxing teeth onto the models.
Teeth have all been added then the gums are waxed up.
The waxed up dentures ready for a fitting or "try-in" to check the fit, bite, and smile.
Waxed up teeth in flasks.
Teeth ready for acrylic.
Scott processing teeth.
Scott pressing models.
The waxed up dentures are processed into durable acrylic.
The finished acrylic dentures ready for delivery.
- The finished denture is delivered to the patient to smile again.
- Another Happy Patient
Before and After Denture placement of some of our patients.The waxed up teeth are fitted to the patient to check the bite and smile.The waxed up dentures are then processed through several steps into durable acrylic dentures.
Before and After Denture placement of some of our patients.The waxed up teeth are fitted to the patient to check the bite and smile.The waxed up dentures are then processed through several steps into durable acrylic dentures.
A new and exciting area of modern dentistry are the use of implants to help hold in a denture. An upper denture is usually more stable in the mouth because of suction with the roof of the mouth. A lower denture however is much more difficult to keep in place because of the tongue. Now, very small implants can be placed in the lower ridge and ball-and-socket attachements can fasten the lower denture to the ridge for much better stability.
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