What are the methods for making dentures

Today's living standards are constantly improving, and more and more people hope that their quality of life can be improved, so they pay special attention to the quality of their diet. If there is a problem with the teeth, it will seriously affect our normal diet, and sometimes it will cause very severe pain. Once the teeth fall out, we have to install dentures, but we lack understanding of dentures and don't know how it is made. So we have a fear of treatment. Let's learn about the methods of denture making.

What are the methods of making dentures?

Removable dentures are another method of restoring missing teeth. It uses the remaining natural teeth and the underlying tissues (mucosa, alveolar ridge) for support, and relies on the denture's retainers and base to achieve retention and stability, and the patient can put it on and take it off by themselves.

The following is the process of making removable dentures:

Oral examination and preparation: The doctor will conduct a comprehensive examination of the patient's missing and remaining teeth, make a preliminary design for the dentures, and modify the shape and occlusion of the remaining teeth according to the plan to create favorable conditions for making dentures.

Tooth impression and plaster model: The patient's oral condition is reproduced on the plaster model.

Design dentures on the model: According to the wearing direction of different types of dentures, design the size of the denture "hook" and plastic plate on the model.

Denture making stage: Make the "hook" by casting or hand-bending according to the model design, use the finished teeth to arrange the teeth in the position of the missing teeth, use wax as the base, and complete the wax model of the entire denture. Then, a plaster negative mold is made, filled with plastic, heated and boiled to harden the plastic. Finally, the dentures are polished and finished.

The above is an introduction to the methods of making dentures. After understanding it, we know that if we have problems with our teeth and wear dentures, we must go to a regular dental hospital. The doctor will make dentures according to the damage to our teeth. In addition, the production of dentures also requires a certain process and time, so we must be adequately prepared when installing dentures.