How to properly care for dentures

Toothbrush, good pasta, and dental floss should be in every home. The toothbrush treats the chewing surface, the inner and the front surfaces of the teeth. The brush also cleans the tongue and gums. Dental floss is used for the interdental spaces. To save teeth from tooth decay, and your prosthesis from microbes thoroughly brush your teeth. After meals, it will be enough to rinse your mouth with water.

Not everyone knows how to properly care for dentures. It is necessary to take care of the dentures, depending on the type of prosthesis. There are removable and non-removable dentures. On the type of prosthesis, the care depends on them. Strictly respecting the general recommendations, you will extend the life of your prostheses.

1. Care of removable dentures.

If you have a removable denture, then it can be removed and cleaned separately, but also qualitatively. How to properly care for removable dentures, using cleansers and fixers, you should consult a doctor. Cleansing agents include soluble tablets, and fixing agents include creams, powders, strips. To care for a denture, you need to pick a good brush. Bristles must be bristly.

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Applying special cleaning pills, pre-denture before descent into the solution should be thoroughly rinsed in running water. In a glass of water, dissolve one tablet and lower the prosthesis. It takes 15 minutes for the bacterial plaque to be removed from the surface of the prosthesis. You need to use these pills twice a day. On sale there are not only tablets with the effect of cleansing, but also with whitening effect.

If the patient has weak salivation, then you can use a fixative powder. With abundant salivation, the fixing cream is suitable. The powder is applied to a clean moist denture with a thin layer, pressing the prosthesis tightly against the gums. The fixing cream with saliva is not washed off. It is distributed evenly. The cream becomes a kind of shock absorber between the gum and the prosthesis. The pressure on the gums decreases, the food particles practically do not fall under the prosthesis. If you have an incorrect jaw structure or the process of getting used to the prosthesis is delayed, then it is worth using the fixing strips. They are made of a special thin canvas. It protects the gums from damage, and reliably fix the prosthesis.

2. How to care for dentures, if they are not removable.

In appearance, such dentures are similar to natural teeth. They take care of them with a toothbrush with soft bristles, toothpaste, dental floss, a single-row interdental brush. The toothbrush must be purchased with soft bristles for gentle care of the dentures and gums. But to clean hard-to-reach places, use dental floss. With the help of dental floss you clean and polish all sides of the prosthesis. Use a single-row interdental brush-brush. It will help remove the remnants of food. Hygienic procedures are completed by rinsing the mouth with the help of special means.

Orthodontic construction. It is a rather cunning device for correcting anomalies of individual teeth, dentition, bite anomaly. Every year these adaptations are improved. Even young people, teenagers who do not want to put up with defects that spoil the smile, agree to temporarily suffer some discomfort. Orthodontic constructions are completely different. Their shape depends on the presence of rubber traction, how many teeth are involved, whether the structure is removable.

The design is removable. If you have a removable orthodontic device, then oral care will be similar if you have partial removable dentures. But such designs have a huge number of different details. This is the locks, and the clasp, and the springs. On all these glands intensively accumulated plaque. The difference is that a partial removable denture must be removed for the night, and the orthodontic device must be worn constantly. Take it off just for cleaning. After preliminary cleaning of the teeth and the apparatus itself, it is usually worn and left in the oral cavity. Before breakfast in the morning the mouth is rinsed, the structure is washed with running water. Clean the same teeth after breakfast by the standard method.

  • Clean the detachable orthodontic apparatus only with an individual toothbrush. You can apply toothpaste, which removes removable plate prostheses. Such a paste will effectively purify, and disinfect, and deodorize. The design of the device, in contact with the soft tissues of the mouth, irritates them and traumatizes them. Therefore, pastes that contain anti-inflammatory herbal ingredients are very suitable. If there are fluoride ingredients in the paste, they will protect the teeth from caries. Pastes curative and preventive can also be used to clean the removable structure.
  • There are various hygienic elixirs. They are used to rinse the mouth.
  • Toothpicks and floss can only be used to clean the teeth. They are not suitable for cleaning orthodontic designs. To clean locks, springs and other parts, use interdental brushes and brushes.
  • Irrigators are well suited for cleaning the oral cavity and for cleaning the removable device.
  • The use of chewing gum will have to be temporarily abandoned.

Fixed construction. Non-removable orthodontic structures include crowns, half-crowns, with soldered devices. They clean them with curative-prophylactic toothpastes, which in their composition do not have strong antiseptics. The use of strong antiseptics is justified only in the case of plaque formation at a very rapid rate. Well, if the pastes used to clean non-removable structures contain fluoride components and plant extracts.