Complex tooth loss means missing multiple teeth, with open gaps spread out across your smile. This is too advanced for a bridge to handle alone, but you may not need a full set of dentures. What could help is a set of custom partials! In today’s blog, Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA, talks about handling complex tooth loss with partial dentures, so you can feel great when you smile!
A Look at Complex Tooth Loss
Often due to periodontal disease, we could lose multiple teeth in our smile, and these gaps could occur across the arch of the smile, in the upper or lower portion, or both. When this happens, you have too many open spaces for a bridge to handle, but you could still have enough natural teeth in place that removing teeth for a full denture wouldn’t be recommended. Fortunately, we have a single prosthetic designed to handle in-between stages, so you can enjoy a full smile and avoid common complications like misalignment, TMJ disorder and bruxism, and issues with meals or speech. You can even feel confident when you smile in public again!
Creating a Partial Prosthetic
Our team will start by examining your smile in detail, so we can understand the cause of your tooth loss and assess the severity. Our team can provide treatment to help manage underlying issues like gum disease to avoid further tooth loss. We then extract any severely diseased or compromised teeth. Our team will next take detailed digital images of your bite from multiple angles. Once we do, we will be able to plan and create a custom prosthetic.
A partial contains new ceramic teeth that are shaded to blend with your smile, all set in an acrylic base that mimics the appearance of gum tissues. The prosthetic will contain clasps that attach to natural teeth to keep the finished product firmly in place.
Caring for Your New Teeth
When you wear your partial, this will fill the open spaces and provide a complete smile. We will discuss how to clean and soak your new teeth to ensure it can last for years to come, often as long as five to ten years. We can then replace it as needed down the road. If you have any questions about how we treat missing teeth and provide a complete smile, then contact our team today to learn more. We want you to feel confident, enjoy your favorite foods, and speak without complication again, and to avoid long-term issues associated with untreated tooth loss.
Dental Impressions Offers Partial Dentures
Our team is ready to help treat missing teeth and offer a full smile again. To schedule an appointment for a new smile, then call Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA today at (515) 965-0230.
