Are dentures hard to wear?
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Upper dentures are pretty straight forward for most people to get used to. The can stick to the upper palate like a suction cup in most cases
Lower dentures are a nightmare. The biggest mistake a dentist can let a person make is to jump from having no denture to full denture on the lower arch. It is better to have several years 3-5 years with partial denture so the person can get used to having this thing in their mouth. The tongue actually can be taught slowly to help manipulate the denture base. As the teeth worsen the denture gets looser but the patient learns to compensate for the loss of stability afforded by the last teeth. By the time it comes to making the leap to complete dentures. The patient has learned how the denture should feel, the ridges have build up some modest amount of tone to resist the irritation of the denture riding on them, and the patient can the learn to rely on the tongue to hold the lower denture in place, rather than teeth.
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Don't know never worn them. My mom on the hand didn't have any problems with them.
Dentures are an awful thing!! Your gums get sore and sometimes bloody for ill fitting dentures and often times you will hear a sucking noise when someone has dentures that don't fit correctly. Best advise would be to BRUSH YOUR TEETH while you have them. Hard at first, but you get used to it within a couple od days. Good luck
Upper dentures are not too bad. The lower ones can be hard. If you have to get the lower ones try to save some of your own bottom teeth so you can have something to "anchor" a partial on. I had my lower denture implanted but it was very expensive.
Good luck.
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