Guides
Living with Dentures
Getting used to false teeth, days that depend on adhesive, a sore where the denture rubs. These guides cover the problems you run into day to day when you wear a denture, and the questions you are likely to have if you are thinking about switching to fixed teeth.
Living with Dentures
- What Is a Partial Denture? Clasp and Metal Framework TypesA partial denture holds on to your remaining teeth with clasps. The types, its effect on clasp teeth, problems measured in studies and when to discuss implants.
- Does an Upper Denture Need a Palate? Palateless OptionsFull or partial plate? Why an upper denture relies on the palate, when a palateless one stays in, how many implants it takes and why fixed teeth have none.
- Tooth Loss and Sleep Apnoea: Sleep With Dentures In?Tooth loss is linked with sleep apnoea; studies on sleeping with dentures are mixed. What the evidence says, when to get a sleep study, appliances and implants.
- Snap-On Dentures: How Many Implants, and What Upkeep?An implant-retained denture on two implants is the standard in the lower jaw. Locator, ball and bar attachments, insert replacement and fixed teeth compared.
- Gagging with a Denture: Why It Happens, and How It SettlesWhy a denture triggers the gag reflex, the roles of palate coverage and a loose back edge, and what helps at home. When it needs an adjustment, or a new design.
- Broken Denture: What to Do, Can It Be Glued at Home?Why gluing a broken denture at home does harm, whether it needs repair or replacing, and what the break tells us. What to do before your appointment.
- When Should a Denture Be Replaced? Relining or New Denture?How many years a denture lasts, what relining is and how often it is done, and the signs that show it is time to replace it. Relining versus a new denture.
- Denture Stomatitis: How Redness Under a Denture ClearsRedness under a denture is usually denture stomatitis. Taking it out at night, disinfecting the denture, where medicine fits, and a caution for blood thinners.
- Denture Adhesive: When Is It a Warning Sign?How to use denture adhesive, how much is too much, and whether daily use harms. Cream, powder and pads, the zinc warning, and when relining is due.
- My Denture Is Rubbing and I Have a Sore: What Now?Why a denture rubs, what helps the sore at home, and how the clinic corrects the pressure spot. Why a sore unhealed after two weeks should be examined.
- Can't Eat Properly with a Denture: Why, and What to Do?Why chewing power drops with a denture, why biting with your side teeth helps, and how to manage difficult foods. Where adhesive helps, and where it does not.
- False Teeth: Who They Suit and How Long to AdjustFull and partial dentures: how they are made, what is normal in the first weeks, night-time removal and cleaning, replacement, and the fixed options.