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
- 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 causes harm, whether you need a repair or a new denture, and what the break tells us. What to do and avoid 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 Adhesive: When Does It Help, and When Is It a Warning Sign?How do you use denture adhesive, how much is too much, and is there any harm in using it every day? Cream, powder and pad types, the zinc warning and when it is time for relining.
- My Denture Is Rubbing and I Have a Sore on My Palate: What Should I Do?Why does a denture rub, what helps the sore at home, and how is the spot that rubs corrected at the clinic? Why a sore that has not healed in 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 (Removable Dentures): Who Are They For, and How Long Does It Take to Get Used to Them?Full and partial dentures, the stages of making them, what is normal in the first few weeks, taking them out at night and cleaning them, how often they need replacing and the fixed options.