What are the precautions for fixed dentures

Many people will always encounter a lot of inconvenience when they have dental problems, and tooth extraction will always bring us a lot of inconvenience, and it will also affect our chewing ability and appearance, so we have to wear dentures to alleviate the problem. Fixed dentures are the choice of many people, but wearing fixed dentures also requires special attention to ensure the service life of the teeth. Let's take a look at the precautions for fixed dentures.

What are the precautions for fixed dentures?

(1) Build confidence and persist in using it. When wearing removable dentures for the first time, most people will experience a foreign body sensation in the mouth, nausea, drooling, difficulty chewing, difficulty speaking, and a changed voice. These are inevitable phenomena in the early stages of wearing dentures. It usually takes 1-2 months (it may take half a year for people with poor adaptability) to gradually eliminate the symptoms and adapt, so you must persist. However, if severe pain, malocclusion, bleeding, or misalignment occurs, you must ask a doctor to modify the grinding.

(2) Practice eating and speaking correctly. When wearing dentures for the first time, especially when some of the back teeth are missing, it is often easy to cause partial chewing (that is, only one side of the teeth is used to chew food), which will affect the central occlusion and the fixation of the dentures. Therefore, it is best to do the following exercise: swallow a mouthful of water first and then clench your teeth, and continue to do this until you reach the central occlusion position. Practice repeatedly and it will become a habit so you won’t chew one thing in the wrong way. Those who have difficulty chewing can first practice eating slowly and in small bites, eating soft food, and then gradually transition to eating hard food after they get used to it. Those who have difficulty speaking and pronouncing words should also practice step by step and not be impatient.

(3) Removable dentures can generally withstand a bite force of 2 to 3 kg, so do not eat hard-shelled foods such as walnuts and pine nuts, and do not bite nails, iron objects, etc., to avoid wear, cracking, dislocation or falling off of dentures. Since the front teeth are not vertical either, it is best not to use the front teeth to bite and cut food, such as apples, pears, sugar cane, etc., but you should learn to use the back teeth to bite and cut.

(4) Eat less sticky and tough foods. Various sticky foods such as glutinous rice cakes, rice dumplings, and soft candies may stick to removable dentures or affect the bite, so you should try to eat less or no sticky foods. Other foods such as cold fried dough sticks and tough cowhide candies should also be eaten less.

(5) Put on and take off correctly. When removing removable dentures, you should mainly push and pull the base rather than the clasp. Be careful not to use excessive force when removing it to avoid deformation or breakage of the snap ring. When wearing dentures, avoid biting them to put them in place to prevent the clasp from deforming or breaking.

(6) Pay attention to oral and denture hygiene. In order to maintain oral hygiene and avoid damage to the tissue in the tray area, you should clean it before and after meals, take it off and wash it before going to bed, put it in clean water overnight, and wash it in the morning before wearing it again. Use clean water to wash dentures. Avoid using boiling water or alcohol to prevent deformation. If there are serious yellow stains, you can use an appropriate amount of "tooth tray cleaner" or other special cleaning agents to clean it. Be gentle when washing to avoid damage. Fixed dentures also require attention to cleanliness and hygiene, especially periodontal hygiene. After meals, use a toothbrush to clean the gums around the dentures. Use dental floss to help clean when necessary. Don't think that everything will be fine after installing fixed dentures.

(7) Others. If dentures are broken or worn, they should be repaired or replaced in time. Removable dentures must be taken off and stored before going to bed to avoid accidentally swallowing smoke or accidentally entering the trachea, which may cause adverse consequences.

The above is an introduction to the precautions for fixed dentures. After understanding, we know that although fixed dentures look more realistic, we must pay special attention to them. First of all, we must pay attention to ensuring good oral hygiene, and also pay attention to eating less sticky and hard foods.