Dentures

Dentures Victoria Park

Whether you're missing a few teeth or you need a full arch replaced, modern high-quality dentures could be a convenient and affordable treatment alternative.

In the past, dentures have carried a stigma of being bulky and loose-fitting, however modern dentures at EVP Dental are carefully designed by our highly-skilled prosthetist to be natural looking and well-fitting.

If you want to know more about dentures and other treatments to replace missing teeth, our experienced dentists in East Victoria Park, can recommend the best option for you. Call 08 9470 3944 to book a consultation.

Advantages of dentures

EVP Dental’s resident prosthetist has 30 years’ experience designing high-quality and natural looking dentures. They can be a cost-effective and long-term option for replacing missing teeth, especially when retained by dental implants.

• While dentures may not have the strength or longevity of dental implants, they cost less to maintain over time, and can be more convenient if you want to avoid surgery.
• If you're only replacing a few teeth, partial dentures don't involve altering your remaining teeth like a dental bridge would require.
• Modern dentures also typically involve less healing time than dental implants and because they are removable, they are easier to clean.

Disadvantages of dentures

There are disadvantages to wearing dentures however:

• While upper dentures can be fairly well tolerated, they can limit your ability to taste food.
• Additionally, lower dentures offer less suction than upper dentures and can easily dislodge.
• Patients who wear full dentures will avoid consuming certain foods to prevent damage and dislodging of their dentures.
• Perhaps, the biggest disadvantage to wearing removable or suction dentures is that they don’t support jaw bone growth, meaning that your facial appearance will change over time as your jaw bone shrinks.

Dental implants can help to stabilise dentures and address many of the disadvantages associated with suction dentures. Contact the team for a consultation today.

Implant-supported dentures

Using dental implants to support full dentures increase stability, comfort and retention of the denture, they also provide stronger biting forces and help to prevent jaw bone loss.

With implant-supported dentures, you’re able to consume a wider variety of nutritional foods, experience better digestion, less discomfort from rubbing dentures andimproved speech ability.

Our dentists will sit down with you and make sure you understand the pros and cons of dentures and the alternative teeth replacement options so you can make a fully informed decision about treatment.

Types of dentures

Dentures can replace any number of missing teeth. They may be attached to the mouth by suction, by clasps attached to remaining teeth or by dental implants placed in your jaw, which involves keyhole surgery. At EVP Dental, we can provide:

• Full dentures – replace all the teeth in your upper or lower jaw or both jaws
• Partial dentures – replace several teeth, supported by the teeth on both sides
• Implant-retained dentures – full or partial dentures supported by dental implants

Replacing missing teeth with dentures

If you decide that you want to replace missing or extracted teeth with dentures, our dentists will take impressions of your mouth that are used to design your replacement teeth. We'll arrange a follow-up appointment when your dentures are ready so we can check that they fit well or make any adjustments.

If you need to have teeth extracted before getting dentures, your gum should be allowed to heal before dentures are fitted, or they could feel loose or tight when swelling in your mouth reduces. We will provide you with temporary dentures and make periodic adjustments so you can still eat normally during your recovery, though we'll advise you about which foods to avoid.

Recovery and aftercare

Wearing dentures can be a big life change, especially full dentures, and it can take a few weeks or even months before you become used to them. Even well-fitting dentures can feel sore for a time, but if you have severe pain, swelling or bleeding, contact our dentists for a check-up.

Dentures should be cleaned daily using soap and water and it's important to keep up a good oral hygiene routine to keep your gums and any remaining teeth as healthy as possible.

Our dentists will check your dentures during your regular check-ups and we can make adjustments or repairs whenever these are needed.

High-quality, Natural looking Dentures in Victoria Park

At EVP Dental, our highly skilled Prosthetist, Donagh, has 30 years’ experience crafting high-quality, natural looking dentures for his patients. Donagh keeps up with the latest techniques and technology to design cosmetic and implant-supported dentures, read his bio here.

EVP Dental only use locally-based dental labs and none of our work is sent overseas.

Book an appointment for dentures in East Victoria Park

To find out whether dentures are right for you, call our team on 08 9470 3944 or book online to schedule an appointment at EVP Dental.