What to do if removable dentures become loose

Problems with teeth will cause us to be unable to chew food fully, which can easily cause a certain amount of gastrointestinal burden. However, in our lives, many people have tooth loss and wear dentures. Among them, removable dentures are the most common. After installation, many people think that there are no major problems with the oral cavity, and they eat without restraint. This can easily cause the removable dentures to loosen, causing certain damage to the crown. Let's learn about what to do if the removable dentures are loose.

What to do if your removable dentures become loose

1. For people with partial tooth loss, dentures are usually used. The main principle is to use the adjacent teeth on the left and right of the missing tooth area as support to fix the dentures in the missing area. Many people who have had dentures have had this experience: they are very firm when they are first put in, but after a period of time, the dentures will become loose and need to be remade and replaced. Why is this?

The Tooth Gold Expert Group tells you that this phenomenon is caused by gum recession! Because dentures use two adjacent teeth as base columns, two prerequisites need to be met in order to maintain long-term stability. First, the two adjacent teeth are very healthy.

Second, the gums at the site of the lost tooth are very full, but in fact this is impossible.

Because tooth loss and tooth extraction are caused by long-term dental diseases, the patient's gums have atrophied, and the problem is not just the one that fell out, but the overall condition of the tooth is poor. In this case, using adjacent teeth to stabilize the denture is like asking an already sick person to carry another person on his back, which will result in him falling down faster.

That is why many people lament that tooth extraction is a chain reaction: once one tooth falls out, the other teeth will soon follow. On the other hand, the gums in the toothless area have already shrunk. After tooth extraction, the gums and alveolar bone in this part will lose their functional needs, which will accelerate the rate of atrophy and degeneration. It's just like how a hillside where trees are cut down will inevitably suffer from soil erosion.

At this time, the gums must be protected through strong nutrient delivery, on the one hand to prevent accelerated gum atrophy, and on the other hand to stabilize the roots of adjacent teeth. Only by allowing the adjacent teeth to become strong supporting pillars can the results of dentures be maintained for a long time.

3. People with a high rate of missing teeth or even no real teeth left need to wear full-piece dentures (also called removable dentures). This type of denture needs to be fixed by the remaining protrusions of the gums and alveolar bones. Dentures tend to become looser as they are worn. In severe cases, they will even fall off when the user opens his mouth to speak, and the user needs to replace them several times.

The above is an introduction to what to do if removable dentures become loose. After understanding this, if we encounter the situation of loose removable dentures again, we must go to the hospital for treatment in time. In addition, we must pay special attention to our diet after installing dentures in our daily life. Do not always chew hard food. We must also pay attention to maintaining good oral hygiene in daily life to avoid the breeding of bacteria and cause oral diseases.