Information About Your New Removable Partial Dentures

We have done our best to provide you with well-fitted, functional and estthetic removable partial dentures. We feel confident that after a few weeks of becoming adjusted to the new dentures, you will have years of satisfaction and use from them.

The following information will be helpful to you:

  1. Your first few weeks: New dentures always feel strange when first placed in your mouth. Several days or even a few weeks will be required for you to feel accustomed to them.
  2. Sore spots: Usually, your mouth will have a few "sore spots" after wearing the dentures for 24 hours. Don't worry about these areas. They can be relieved with very little effort during your next appointment. Another appointment about 7 days later will usually eliminate any other sore areas.
  3. Chewing: The new bite or occlusion will not feel completely comfortable for a period of days. We will adjust the contacting surfaces of your teeth after 24 hours and again in about one week after the dentures have settled into place.
  4. Cleaning the dentures and your mouth: Your dentures can be cleaned easily by using a denture brush and a mild toothpaste. Use special care to clean parts of the partial that ontact any natural teeth. Both the partial denture and the natural teeth must be kept very clean on a daily basis to reduce the chance of new dental deay starting. Denture soaks are also useful for the denture. Brush your gums with a regular toothbrush once per day to toughen and clean them. You may leave the dentures in or out of your mouth at night, depending on your preference. If they are out of your mouth, leave them soaking in water.
  5. The future: Your jaw bones and gums shrink up to 1/32 of an inch per year when your teeth are missing. This shrinkage is one of the main disadvantages of artifical dentures. Because of this shrinkage, you should plan to have your dentures and oral tissues evealuated at least every 6 months by us. We will inform you when relining or rebasing of the dentures is necessary. Wearing ill-fitting dentures for too long without refitting can cause severe bone loss and very serious oral diseases.

We look forward to helping you adjust to and enjoy your new dentures.