Dentures – Clarendon Hills, IL
A Tried-and-True Tooth Loss Solution
If you’ve ever suffered tooth loss, you know the condition lowers your quality of life. After all, it results in unsightly tooth gaps, makes everyday tasks harder, and can cause oral health issues. Still, you don’t have to live with such complications – get dentures from Clarendon Hills! As provided by Dr. Hong and his team, these prosthetic teeth restore grins quickly and easily. To learn what they’re all about, just keep reading or book a visit to our practice.
Who is a Good Candidate for Dentures?
Naturally, ideal denture candidates are the ones who suffer from missing teeth. They’re people who, due to lacking chompers, struggle to eat, speak, or even smile.
Of course, you can only confirm candidacy with a dental consultation. This visit lets Dr. Hong assess your health and see if dentures could work for you. Should he conclude that they would, he and our team will draft a custom treatment plan for your unique needs.
Alternatively, our office may recommend an alternative to denture treatment. That possibility is more likely if you don’t lack all of the teeth along an arch.
Types of Dentures
If Dr. Hong approves, the consultation visit will also decide the type of denture that best suits you. There’s more than one kind, you see, and they have different qualifying factors. As such, the consult will ultimately suggest one of three possible dentures:
Partial Dentures
As you might expect, partial dentures only replace a few missing teeth. Consequently, they clasp onto surrounding chompers to keep themselves secure.
A partial denture consists of a gum-colored base and a set of artificial teeth. Thanks to its high-quality materials, it’ll usually blend seamlessly with the rest of your smile.
Full Dentures
Full dentures, per their name, replace all the teeth along an arch. They thus don’t use other pearly whites to steady themselves. Rather, they stay in place by relying on natural suction instead.
Ultimately, a full denture’s base doesn’t differ much from a partial denture's. The former also consists of acrylic, gum-colored resins. That said, this type of denture does fit snugly over the gums.
Implant Dentures
Compared to partial and full models, implant dentures are more stable. Patients, then, often choose them when they want a more permanent option.
Implant dentures uniquely feature dental implants — restorations that fuse with the jaw. Therefore, they have unique benefits, like preventing (and reversing) jawbone erosion. More notably, their fusion ensures they don’t slip or fall from your mouth.
Benefits of Dentures
When you’re missing multiple teeth, it can be difficult to complete many daily tasks like eating, speaking clearly, and smiling confidently. Dentures can be a life-changing tooth replacement option for anyone missing several, most of, or all their natural teeth. Thanks to this restoration’s ability to improve your quality of life, if you’ve suffered from tooth loss, dentures can truly give your smile a second chance by providing the following incredible benefits.
Psychological Benefits
Many people have difficulty accepting their tooth loss. Along with this, they may experience negative effects on their self-esteem and social life, as well as an increased risk of experiencing sadness and depression.
When you’re insecure about tooth loss, you may be less inclined to engage in social activities, increasing feelings of isolation. However, by restoring the appearance and function of your smile with dentures, you are likely to experience an increase in your confidence and self-esteem. In fact, your dentures can help reduce the anxieties about your appearance, speech articulation, chewing ability, and much more while you’re engaging socially.
Clearer Enunciation
Missing teeth can make it difficult to speak clearly. To pronounce and perform certain words, your lips and tongue need to be positioned properly. Without the ability to touch your tongue to specific teeth, some words can be very difficult to say clearly.
Thankfully, your dentures act as your missing teeth, thereby allowing you to enunciate more clearly while speaking. Following a short adjustment period and a little bit of practice, speaking with your new prosthetics will come naturally.
Improves Nutrition
Because many nutritious foods are tougher in texture, including certain vegetables, fruits, and healthy proteins, they can be difficult to eat if you’re missing teeth. Worse yet, when you’re unable to chew your food thoroughly due to tooth loss, it can increase your risk of indigestion and malnutrition.
The good news is that with dentures, your improved ability to chew will allow you to eat a more expansive diet full of healthy, delicious foods, ultimately helping your body receive the essential nutrients it needs for optimal overall health.
Preserves Oral Health
If you still have any remaining natural teeth, your new dentures can help you prevent them from shifting to other areas of the mouth. Dentures can also bear some of the weight of regular chewing, thereby reducing the wear and tear on your existing teeth.
Expands Opportunity
Your smile is your calling card, and certainly one of the first things people notice about you. When it comes to important career events like job interviews, sales, and getting promotions, it’s vital to make an excellent first impression, and having a complete smile is a definite advantage. In fact, according to a 2019 study, the probability of being employed was negatively associated with poor oral health.