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Dentures: New Dentures
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These notes are for your guidance and to help you to maintain comfort and efficiency from your new dentures. Artificial dentures are only substitutes and can never be as efficient as natural teeth. You have spent a considerable time having these new dentures made. Like all new appliances, it will take some time for you to become used to them. You must look after them carefully in order to have a good service.
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Once healed and the dentures are placed, the patient will need time to adjust to the new teeth. While patients can speak normally within a few hours, they may experience minor discomfort when eating or chewing. This discomfort may last from several days to a few weeks until the muscles of your cheek and tongue learn to keep them in place and you get comfortable inserting and removing them. It is recommended that patients with new dentures eat soft foods until they become comfortable with chewing.
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Problems with dentures include the fact that patients are not used to having something in their mouth that is not food. The brain senses this appliance as "food" and sends messages to the salivary glands to produce more saliva and to secrete it at a higher rate. New dentures will ... be the inevitable cause of sore spots as they rub and press on the mucosa(denture bearing soft tissue). A few denture adjustments for the weeks following insertion of the dentures can take care of this issue. Gagging is another problem encountered by some patients. At times, this may be due to a denture that is too loose fitting, too thick or not extended far enough posteriorly onto the soft palate.
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In order to ensure proper denture care and a long lasting proper fit, you may need to adjust your dentures or eventually even get new ones. You should never try to make adjustments to your false teeth yourself. You will ... want to avoid using adhesives for a prolonged period of time because the adhesive can lead to bone loss. When in doubt, be sure to consult your prosthodontist or prosthdontics team.
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Even if you have worn dentures before, your new denture will feel strange at first. This is because your mouth takes some time to adapt to the new denture. When eating, start with soft, crisp foods (eg. Lightly cooked vegetables.) Take in small amounts and chew slowly. Try to bite on your own teeth rather than the artificial ones, especially at the front. Bite at the corners of the mouth and not with your front teeth.
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Even if you are a whiz at fixing toasters, leaky pipes or automobiles, do not try to adjust or repair your dentures yourself. Improperly relined dentures can be bulky, causing increased pressure on the jaw and more rapid loss of jawbone. Do-it-yourself reliners can ... irritate the soft tissues of your mouth. The handyman approach can cause irreparable damage and may result in the need for a new denture.
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