What are the hazards of removable dentures

Teeth are very important to everyone. Only with healthy teeth can we chew food better and absorb the nutritional value of food better. However, in our lives, many elderly people have lost all their teeth due to age problems and have to wear removable dentures to ensure a normal diet without increasing the burden on the stomach and intestines. Let’s learn about the hazards of removable dentures.

What are the hazards of removable dentures

After the elderly lose their teeth, they usually use removable dentures. Because they are easy to put on and clean, most elderly people use removable dentures for oral rehabilitation.

Removable dentures mainly rely on hooks and base plates for retention and stability, and the tightness is difficult to adjust. If the hooks and brackets are too loose, there is a fear that they will fall off due to poor wearing; if they are too tight, there is a fear that they cannot be removed and cleaned, and the abutment teeth will also feel pain. Moreover, the hook can easily damage, injure, or loosen the abutment teeth on both sides of the missing tooth, causing inflammation of the abutment teeth and increasing looseness until they fall off. If you re-attach your teeth, they will become loose again until all the teeth fall out, and you will only be able to get full removable dentures.

In addition, whether the denture uses a metal or plastic base plate, if the edge is slightly longer or thicker, it will damage the gums and mucosal tissues, causing traumatic erosion and ulcers; if the base plate is too small, it will affect the retention effect of the denture, increase the burden of the chewing force of the abutment teeth, and affect the service life of the abutment teeth. The hooks and clasps of dentures are too long and can easily injure the tongue, gums and buccal mucosa, causing inflammation and ulceration of local tissues. The discomfort when wearing it is obvious, which affects the quality of life. Since it needs to be put on and taken off repeatedly, the hook is easy to loosen, otherwise it will cause digestive tract and gastrointestinal accidents after falling off.

If dentures are not cleaned thoroughly, they will cause bad breath, affect diet, reduce gastrointestinal function, breed bacteria, cause ulcers or other oral and visceral diseases. If the dentures are not cleaned properly, they may be damaged or deformed, and their service life may be reduced. Therefore, elderly people need to clean their removable dentures regularly. The service life of removable dentures is limited, especially full dentures. Generally speaking, they need to be overhauled every 3 to 5 years and replaced if necessary. With the development of science and technology and medicine, a technology called dental implants has been developed, and the shortcomings of traditional dentures have been overcome one by one. Patients with missing teeth who have been troubled by dentures for many years can replace them with dental implants to make up for the defect of "old teeth" according to their own conditions.

Everything has its good side and negative effects. The above is an introduction to the hazards of removable dentures. After understanding, we know that we must take good care of dentures, maintain good oral hygiene, and try not to wear dentures when sleeping.