After having your teeth pulled to receive dentures, the usual norm is to wait three to six months. But if you want dentures shortly after tooth extraction to produce a new grin without having to spend time without teeth or use temporary dentures, you can ask Dr. Bing about acquiring rapid dentures.
If you wish not to spend months without teeth, immediate dentures following tooth extraction are the perfect answer. Soon after eliminating the last teeth from your mouth, immediate dentures replace the teeth lost.
How Long Should One Wait Between Denture Placement and Teeth Extraction?
Between the time your teeth are taken out and the denture is placed, there is a long waiting period that calls for you to go toothless except facing many difficulties until you get your replacements.
Before returning to have molds for your dentures, the dentist advises you to wait for your tooth socket to heal. Several times during the pre-fabrication process, you must visit the prosthodontist creating your dentures several times to have measurements of your jaw, so enabling exactly fitting dentures for you. The prosthodontist will ask you to see them often until your final prosthesis are ready, therefore the process takes time and calls for much of patience.
You have to overcome difficulties eating, smiling, and easily doing daily tasks. If you have any remaining teeth, you also address issues with your jawbone and a poor bite since they often migrate towards the blank gaps upward or downward to require further treatment.
How to Get Instant Dentures
The two stages of obtaining instant dentures follow each other. Depending on the state of your teeth and the situation, some actions are comparable at every stage whether you are obtaining an instant partial denture or a denture after extraction.
Level I
Usually needing about six weeks, your dentist removes molars still present in your mouth and lets you heal from the extraction. The prosthodontist creates your immediate dentures by taking imprints of your current teeth and jaw once you have healed following molar extraction.
Your dentist next removes your remaining teeth to fit the instant dentures straight into your mouth. Sometimes dentists remove all of your teeth in one visit and then offer instant dentures shortly following. Though they advise the best course of action for your particular situation, they prefer removing teeth in phases as stated. Therefore, it is advisable to follow their recommendations.
The first night after receiving instant dentures, you do not have to take off the prosthesis from your mouth. Rather, you leave them in the mouth for your dentist to remove the next day. The dentist inserts liners to the denture to fit your gums as they heal. The changes are crucial since your gums shrink during healing, hence immediate dentures often loosen.
Level 2
The dentist makes another polished denture to replace the first set once you and your gums have healed enough from the tooth removal surgery. Given changes in your mouth, gums, and jaw following tooth extraction, your new dentures are made to seem visually pleasant as best feasible.
Your jaw’s form keeps changing, so six months after you get your new set of teeth they will need relining. To enjoy a comfortable fit with the new dentures to suit your shifting jaw, you have to put up the changes for life. Every patient has different frequency of requirement for the changes. During regular dental visits, your dentist evaluates the fit of your denture apart from looking at your gums.
Advantages and disadvantages of immediate dentures
Benefits
Even after having all of your teeth pulled in one session, you never have to face the world without teeth.
If you have any surviving natural teeth, it would be easy for your dentist to design and create your dentures to reflect their form, color, and arrangement.
Drawbacks
Following tooth extraction during the healing process, your gums alter size and structure. For immediate dentures to remain fitting, they must thus be adjusted or even replaced.
Immediate dentures are more costly than conventional dentures since they can be adjusted and relined to accommodate the changing gum form.
Please make an appointment with Bing Dental — Dr. Bing can provide guidance on how to avoid living with dentures if she believes dentures are the best choice for restoring your missing teeth.