It is
treatment of choice for those people, who want never to be without teeth. Some
patients feel difficulty in chewing food properly due to loss of major number
of tooth; though because of some unknown reasons they always try to avoid
dental treatment. This unknown reason may be fear of looking toothless face.
Immediate denture is right solution for these kind people.
As you
know, conventional denture is constructed after completion of healing of
extraction socket approximately at 3 month. During this period, social life of
patient with edentulous face might be hampered. Here, immediate denture is
right answer.
What is
immediate denture?
As name
suggest, an immediate denture is a denture, which is placed immediately after
the teeth have been extracted on same visit. This denture is made before
extraction of teeth, so the goal of the treatment is for you never to be
without teeth.
Here, I
will explain about Immediate Dentures. Before starting you should know about
the treatment procedure of conventional denture, as I
described in other section.
Advantages
of Immediate denture
The
most important advantage of immediate dentures is that you never to be without
teeth.
Other
advantages include:
♦The form, size and arrangement
of your natural teeth can more closely be copied when your natural teeth
present in your mouth.
♦When immediate dentures are
inserted, they act as a bandage and help to reduce bleeding.
♦Immediate dentures protect the
gums at the extraction sites from irritation which might result from the tongue
and food.
♦Immediate dentures immediately
establish your speech patterns more easily. You do not have to learn to speak
without teeth and then re-learn once dentures are made.
♦With immediate dentures you can
chew better than you could without teeth during the normal waiting period for
conventional dentures.
♦If dentures do not replace the
natural teeth within a short time, the cheek muscles tend to fall in, result
deep wrinkles on face.
♦If you remain without teeth for
longer time, you may develop bad oral habits that will interfere with your
ability to learn how to use dentures properly.
Disadvantages
of Immediate Denture
Immediate
dentures have some limitations. Immediate dentures are not advisable in some
people with poor general health or specific oral problems.
♦There are more chances of
denture soreness for few weeks after insertion of immediate denture, because of
incomplete healing of tissue.
♦The construction of immediate
denture require more dental visit during initial weeks, to check for changes in
the gums. The original fitting and occlusion of the denture will be lost as
tissue healing progress. This is natural.
♦As gums tissue healing progress
after teeth extraction, immediate dentures usually become loose and need to be
re-fitted within 3 – 6 months. In some cases new dentures must be made.
♦In those cases where remaining
last back teeth removed, immediate denture will not always fit accurately as
compare to conventional denture.
♦As compare to procedure of
conventional denture, dummy or trial of denture is not possible with immediate
denture because of presence of natural teeth.
♦Immediate dentures are usually
more expensive because of the additional time, visits and skill required for
their construction.
So in
short, unlike conventional dentures, immediate dentures are made in advance and
can be positioned as soon as the teeth are removed. As a result, the patient
does not have to be without teeth during the healing period. However, bones and
gums shrink over time, especially during the healing period following toothremoval. Therefore a disadvantage of immediate dentures compared with
conventional dentures is that they require more adjustments to fit properly
during the healing process and generally should only be considered a temporary
solution until conventional dentures can be made.
