If you have lost teeth across the arch of your smile, then we could help with partial dentures. These handle tooth loss too complex to handle with a bridge, and offer a chance to ensure you can feel confident again and enjoy your favorite foods. In today’s blog, your team at Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA, talks about helping smiles with partial dentures.
The Onset of Complicated Cases of Tooth Loss
When you lose one tooth or two to three in a row, then we could handle the gap with a custom and lifelike dental bridge. If you lost the vast majority of your teeth, we simply remove the last few to pave the way for a full set of dentures. But with a complicated case, you could have several gaps across your smile. Our team can take these on with a single prosthetic: a partial denture. This option will be custom-made to ensure a proper bite, lifelike appearance, and the ability to restore function to your bite again. We are ready to help your smile with partial dentures.
Creating a New Smiles
How do we create a partial? To begin, we will examine your smile to assess the cause and severity of your tooth loss. We may need to manage issues like periodontal disease to ensure the stability of remaining teeth. If we find teeth severely decayed, infected, or diseased, then we may gently extract them. Our team then takes detailed digital images of your tooth with an intraoral camera, which we use in a lab setting to design and craft your new prosthetic.
This will contain new ceramic teeth that we shaded to blend with your smile. These will be set in an acrylic base that looks like gum tissue. The prosthetic is removable, and is worn during the day, allowing you to eat your favorite foods and speak with ease.
Your New Dental Prosthetic
The prosthetic contains clasps that attach to natural teeth to keep the prosthetic firmly in place, so it does not slip when you eat or speak. Our team will discuss how to clean and soak the prosthetic to help it last for years to come. For some, this could last as long as a decade. If you have any questions about how we address complicated cases of tooth loss with a partial denture, or if you want to see us now and use your remaining 2026 dental benefits or health savings account funds before they expire, then reach out to our office today!
Dental Impressions Provides a Custom Prosthetics
We want to help address severe tooth loss and offer results that look natural. To schedule an appointment and handle more complex cases of tooth loss, then call Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA today at (515) 965-0230.
