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What Art Dentures?
Dentures are a removable replacement for teeth usually when fixed bridges or implants are not possible or desirable.
A complete denture replaces an entire arch (upper, lower, or both) when there are no remaining natural teeth.
A partial denture replaces teeth in an arch (upper, lower, or both) which still has some natural teeth.
A complete denture replaces an entire arch (upper, lower, or both) when there are no remaining natural teeth.
A partial denture replaces teeth in an arch (upper, lower, or both) which still has some natural teeth.
Complete Dentures
Replacing All Teeth
Upper & Lower
Partial Denture
Replacing 4 teeth
Lower
Options for Complete Dentures
Complete dentures can be made with a variety of types of teeth. Options include:
- Standard plastic teeth
- Wear out early due to low density material
- Plain-looking esthetics
- Can stain more easily
- BioBlend teeth
- Long lasting stronger material
- More natural, bright appearance
- More stain resistant
- Slightly higher cost than standard teeth
- Porcelain teeth
- Very long lasting due to strength of porcelain
- Crisp, porcelain appearance
- Can cause "clicking" sounds
- Slightly higher cost than standard teeth
- May cause jawbone recession due to pressures
- Bladed teeth
- Safe inner metal edges on teeth help in chewing
- Slightly higher cost than standard teeth
- A Glendale Dental Arts favorite
Options for Partial Dentures
Partial dentures benefit from all the teeth options listed above, plus many more base and clasp options.
- Standard framework and clasps
- This is the customary highly polished Vitallium® chrome-cobalt alloy that has been in use for over sixty years.
- Includes pink acrylic base for the gum areas.
- Valplast®
- A flexible biocompatible thermoplastic nylon with unique physical and esthetic properties. It's translucency allows your natural tissue tone to appear through the partial material. A Valplast base is also stronger than standard acrylic. The pink clasps look like your own natural gum tissue (no unsightly metal clasps):
- Valplast-Vitallium Combination
- Partials can also be made using a standard metal-alloy framework but with a Valplast base and clasps. This results in a stronger, more precise-fitting partial, but still with the cosmetic clasps replacing the metal ones:
