Artificial Dentures
Dentures are artificial elements intended to restore the anatomy of one or several teeth and the relationship between the jaws, while returning the vertical dimension, and replaces both the natural dentition and periodontal structures.
There are two types of dentures, dentures fixed and movable. Both types of dentures recover the functionality of the patient’s mouth and allow or facilitate effective chewing, swallowing, food and phonetics.
Fixed dentures used to restore damaged parts of the teeth or crowns with coronary covers simple and to replace any missing teeth, where the false teeth that replace missing natural form a continuous structure with covers or crowns subject them to neighboring natural teeth worn or pillars.
All prostheses of any type whatsoever, should have effective restraint, ie the restoration remains subject in the mouth and will not fall or slip out of position, because otherwise the chewing, swallowing and phonics, will be affected and even prevented.
Fixed dentures are completely tooth supported, which means taking only support the teeth.
If dentures are fixed, there will be no problem with retention. If they are metal dentures, the provision of metal hooks, as well as their effectiveness must be adequate, since basically the retention of the prosthesis will be produced by them. If it is resin complete dentures, the most problematic in this regard, it should consider the proper design of the denture base and its surface, which should be sufficiently wide to achieve greater retention in the mouth (for improve retention in this type of denture adhesive products are available as creams and powders). If prostheses are mixed, the attachment will work properly, it is this which facilitates retention.
The sole function of dentures and means quality of life and health both for the patient. Dentures prevent the rest of the dental structures of the masticatory apparatus suffer damage, since repair even the vertical dimension of the mouth, thus avoiding bad joint positions that have very different effects.
The objective of the dental prosthesis is to get a denture aesthetics, but not as perfect as nature itself, taking into account the patient’s age, sex of the patient, the patient’s facial morphology, size of one’s face and teeth of patient. The teeth should be placed in the same color and shape as the natural teeth, especially if the patient partially preserved teeth. Aesthetically, a full and healthy teeth is important, however, dentures are not limited to restore the teeth, but also restore the vertical dimension of the mouth and the overall appearance of the face.