Dentures – Jacksonville Beach, FL
The Tried-and-True Solution for Tooth Loss
Gaps in your grin can potentially detract from your daily quality of life in several ways. For example, you might feel self-conscious about the changes in your looks or develop challenges eating and speaking.
Fortunately, Dr. Fox and the rest of our team can provide a lifelike set of dentures, the tried-and-true solution for tooth loss. Regardless of how many natural teeth remain, we can rebuild your smile with a one-of-a-kind restoration to enhance its appearance and functionality. Continue reading to learn more about this popular treatment and who it can help!
Why Choose SeaSide Dental for Dentures?
- Dentist with 25+ Years of Experience
- Customizable, Lifelike Materials
- Advanced Technology for Enhanced Accuracy
Who's a Good Candidate for Dentures?
Having two complete arches of teeth is essential to performing many basic tasks like enunciating different sounds and chewing food sufficiently so it can be easily swallowed and digested. Potentially anyone missing adult teeth can benefit from getting dentures, but that doesn’t mean this treatment is the best way to meet everyone’s unique needs. Before receiving dentures, you must consult with Dr. Fox so he can evaluate your oral health and make sure you’re a good candidate. Here’s a quick guide to why dentures may be a great way to restore your smile from the friendly team at Seaside Dental of Jacksonville Beach.
Effects of Missing Teeth
Tooth loss can lead to a host of oral health problems like an increased risk of dental injuries and infections, hygiene difficulties, jawbone atrophy, dental misalignments, and further tooth loss. Losing teeth can also significantly affect your quality of life by causing facial sagging, speech difficulties, chewing problems, and diminishing your self-esteem. Replacing your lost teeth with beautiful and lifelike dentures from our Jacksonville Beach office may be the best way to preserve your appearance and your dental health.
What Qualifies You for Dentures?
Dentures can be a fantastic way to complete the smiles of patients who have experienced extensive tooth loss or who suffer from severe dental sensitivity or extensive decay. However, a good denture candidate will have healthy gums and jawbones to support their restorations and be ready to commit to an excellent daily oral hygiene and appliance maintenance regimen. There are several forms of dentures available (full, partial, and implant-supported varieties), and the best option for you depends on how many teeth you are missing as well as your budget. Traditional dentures can be an especially affordable way to replace lost teeth.
Alternative Tooth-Replacement Options
Dentures aren’t the best tooth loss solution for everyone, and we offer several other ways to restore lost pearly whites. These include:
- Dental bridges: These appliances can replace one or more sequential lost teeth. They consist of one or several artificial teeth strung between two dental implants or crowns, and these devices require patients to have adequately healthy teeth, gums, and jawbones to support them.
- Dental implants: These devices are titanium posts surgically inserted into the jaw where they form a durable bond with their surrounding bone tissue through the natural process of osseointegration. Implants can last for decades or possibly for life if they receive proper care, and restorations mounted on them may last much longer than traditional devices.
We’ll be happy to determine the best way to replace your lost teeth during your consultation at our Jacksonville Beach office.
Types of Dentures
Whether you have lost some or all of your teeth, Dr. Fox can provide a lifelike set of dentures to restructure your arches and boost your confidence. Once he examines your mouth, he can recommend one of the following types based on his findings and the number of missing teeth:
Partial Dentures
Those who are missing a few teeth sporadically might benefit from partial dentures. These restorations typically have an acrylic base set with the correct number of artificial teeth, and anchor to healthy teeth in your mouth with small metallic clasps included in the foundation.
Full Dentures
If you are missing some or all of your natural teeth, Dr. Fox will likely suggest a full set of dentures. These rely on firm suction against your connective tissue to remain in place, which sometimes requires that any remaining natural teeth be extracted for them to fit properly. They contain lifelike replacement teeth made from resilient ceramic that can be customized to resemble the ones that were lost.
Implant Dentures
If you are seeking a more permanent and reliable solution for tooth loss, you might benefit from implant dentures. This is the only option that involves surgically placing four to six support posts into your jaw, which eventually fuse with the bone and function more like natural roots. Once you’ve recovered, our team can attach a customized restoration to these rods to restore your smile.
The Benefits of Dentures
Extensive tooth loss can make many activities of daily living like chewing thoroughly, speaking clearly, and smiling with confidence quite difficult, but dentures can be a fantastic way to restore the appearance and function of an incomplete smile. Here’s a quick look at a few of the impressive benefits dentures can deliver from the friendly team at Seaside Dental of Jacksonville Beach.
Psychological Benefits
Severe tooth loss can make it hard to feel confident about how you look, which may make it difficult to engage socially and set you up for unpleasant emotions like sadness, depression, and isolation. Restoring the look, feeling, and function of your smile with dentures can improve your self-esteem by restoring your ability to speak clearly, chew easily, and smile proudly.
Clearer Enunciation
Losing teeth can alter the way vibrations move through your mouth when you speak, which can make some words and sounds difficult to pronounce. Thankfully, dentures can function in the place of your missing teeth, which can make it much easier to enunciate properly and communicate clearly. After you have a little practice speaking while wearing your dentures, you should find that conversing becomes increasingly easy.
Improves Nutrition
Many nutritious foods and beverages are difficult to chew after tooth loss, which can leave a patient vulnerable to issues like indigestion and malnutrition. Dentures from our Jacksonville Beach office can restore much of your chewing power so you can enjoy healthy foods with interesting textures like fresh meat, raw, snappy fruits and veggies, and crunchy, savory nuts and seeds. This can make it much easier to maintain an excellent diet that provides your body with all the nutrients it needs to stay healthy and strong.
Preserves Oral Health
Dentures can help brace a patient’s remaining natural teeth and support them during the chewing process, which can help prevent dental drift and uneven enamel erosion. They can also protect the gums from injury and reduce jaw strain, which will help the patient remain comfortable while chewing.
Expands Opportunities
Your smile plays a massive role in the first impressions you make, and having a grin you can be proud of can help you engage socially, maintain a professional appearance, and stand out from the competition when being considered for a new position at work. Dentures can be a fantastic way to achieve a gorgeous smile after tooth loss, which may lead to exciting new opportunities for your career and social life.