How to maintain fixed dentures

Today's medical industry is constantly improving. When our bodies have different conditions, we can get good treatment. Among them, dental problems will bring us a lot of inconvenience, which will also affect our dietary treatment. Generally, when we treat dental problems, we will install dentures. Fixed dentures will not affect the appearance, but you must pay attention to the maintenance of your teeth in order to ensure the health of your teeth. Let's learn how to maintain fixed dentures.

How to maintain fixed dentures

Although fixed dentures try to imitate the shape of real teeth as much as possible during the manufacturing process, they are different from the original real teeth after all, and this difference in shape may be a factor that affects the cleaning of fixed dentures. The shape of human natural teeth and gums are conducive to the overflow of food during chewing, and this overflow helps the teeth to remove dirt deposited on the surface.

Although great efforts have been made in clinic to improve tooth morphology and surface smoothness, these properties of the materials have not yet reached the ideal level. Therefore, more attention should be paid to cleaning after fixed denture restoration. Brush your teeth frequently and rinse your mouth more often to promptly remove food debris from your mouth after eating, eliminate the soil on which bacteria depend as much as possible, and protect your fixed dentures.

It is undeniable that the emergence of porcelain materials is an important milestone in the history of oral restoration. It has the advantages of strong hardness and good color stability. Porcelain teeth are made of two parts, metal and porcelain. The bonding between metal and porcelain is not ideal, and porcelain has the disadvantage of being very brittle.

How to care for fixed dentures? If your dentures are porcelain teeth, you must pay more attention to daily health care and remember not to chew hard food with porcelain teeth. In addition, although porcelain teeth have the advantage of good color stability, they cannot withstand long-term stimulation from colored foods, beverages, tobacco, etc. Long-term smoking and drinking tea will cause pigmentation.

The above is an introduction to how to maintain fixed dentures. After understanding it, we know that fixed dentures are not indestructible. We must pay attention to ensuring good oral hygiene to avoid periodontitis, etc. In addition, we should not eat foods that are too hard or sticky.