Dentures – Honolulu, HI
Enjoy a Gorgeous and Functional New Smile
Tooth loss is a common problem that can be caused by injuries, infections, and age, and it can make an individual shy about showing off their smile. Thankfully, dentures from Dentaworks Hawaii can complete your grin with beautiful and lifelike restorations that can improve your chewing power and make it easier to speak clearly. Here’s a brief guide to how dentures work and who can benefit from them, but please contact our staff if you’d like to learn more.
Why Choose Dentaworks Hawaii for New Dentures?
- Skilled and Experienced Dental Team
- Restore Your Smile with a Durable Appliance
- Financing Options Available
Who Is a Good Candidate for Dentures?
Tooth loss can significantly change your life by making it difficult to chew properly, speak clearly, and smile confidently. While dentures can be an excellent solution for many people with missing teeth, a patient who isn’t missing all the teeth along a dental arch may benefit more from another restoration such as a bridge. You will need to have healthy gums before you receive dentures, but we’ll be happy to address soft tissue infections with gum disease treatments.
Types of Dentures
There are several types of dentures available, and the best one for you depends on how many teeth you are missing and where they were located. After we evaluate your mouth during your consultation, we may recommend:
Partial Dentures
Partial dentures can replace several or many teeth throughout the mouth. They consist of artificial teeth set in a gum-colored base, and they may also feature metal clips designed to fasten the appliance to the patient’s remaining natural pearly whites.
Full Dentures
A full denture is designed to replace all the teeth of a dental arch, and it holds itself in place within the mouth through natural suction. Each of these appliances is completely customized to ensure that it fits the patient’s gums comfortably.
Implant Dentures
If you’re looking for a permanent solution to your tooth loss, implant dentures may be for you. These appliances are much like traditional dentures except they are anchored securely in the mouth with dental implants surgically placed in the jawbone. Implant dentures can be a great option for those who are frustrated with their traditional restorations since they restore almost all the patient’s chewing power and can last much longer if they receive excellent care.
Benefits of Dentures
When you’re missing more than one tooth, it can be challenging to complete a variety of daily tasks that others may take for granted, including eating, speaking clearly, and smiling confidently. Dentures are a life-changing solution for patients who are missing several, most of, or all their natural teeth. Dentures can improve your quality of life by giving your smile another chance and providing the following benefits.
Psychological Benefits
Edentulous people (people without teeth) often struggle to accept tooth loss. Along with this comes a variety of negative side-effects on their self-esteem, social life, and mental health.
By restoring the appearance and function of your smile with the help of dentures, you can experience an increase in your confidence and self-esteem. Your new dentures can even help reduce anxieties about your appearance, speech articulation, chewing abilities, and much more while you’re engaging socially.
Clearer Enunciation
When you’re missing teeth, it can become difficult to speak properly. In order to pronounce and perform words, your lips and tongue must be positioned properly. Without the ability to touch your tongue to your teeth, some words can be extremely difficult to say clearly.
Dentures act as your missing teeth, thereby allowing you to enunciate clearly while speaking. In fact, following a short adjustment period and a little bit of practice, speaking with them will come naturally.
Improves Nutrition
Many nutritious foods can be tough in texture, such as certain fruits, vegetables, and healthy proteins. When you are unable to chew your food thoroughly due to tooth loss, it is not uncommon to experience negative issues such as malnutrition and indigestion.
When you improve your ability to chew with the help of dentures, you can enjoy a more expansive diet full of nutritious, delicious foods. Ultimately, your dentures can help your body receive the essential nutrients needed for optimal health and wellness.
Preserves Oral Health
If you still have any remaining natural teeth, getting dentures can help prevent those teeth from drifting to other areas of your mouth. Dentures can also bear some of the weight of regular chewing, thereby reducing the wear and tear on your existing natural teeth.
Expands Opportunity
Your smile is one of the very first things people notice about you when they meet you. When it comes to things like job interviews, sales, and even getting promotions, it’s important to make a great first impression, and having a complete, healthy smile is a definite advantage.