Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Why Did The Denture Break Down The Middle ?

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    There is of course no question about why a denture breaks when it's dropped on the floor or in an empty sink, even though 99% of the time a new denture wearer is instructed to always slightly fill a sink with water to cushion a dropped denture while holding it over the sink to brush and clean.
    When a denture breaks right through the middle, or if you will, the center, from front to back if it's an Upper and between the center two front teeth if it's a Lower, nine times out of ten the denture is no longer properly fitting the gum tissue.
    When the gums change in size and shape due to healing from extraction's or just aging, or in some cases an ill fitting dental appliance to begin with, those changes create an imbalance and that creates stress pressures along the lines in which the denture tends to fit close to the gums....Example: The upper teeth have been extracted and a period of healing has taken place. We know that while healing after an extraction the gums, both tissue and bone, undergo changes in both size and shape..shrinking if you will. When that occurs on the Upper gums it's the gum ridge that changes, not the roof.
    When the outside ridge heals and shrinks away from the inside of the denture the only area left that the Upper denture still fits is the palate or roof if you will. When you chew your sending unbalanced stress pressure right down the center of the roof of the denture, front to back....You might say that it's like a playground teeter totter..it's only supported in the middle and if you put enough weight (stress pressure) at each end over and over, eventually it will break in half at the center point where the pressure is strongest....While a denture may seem to be made of a rigid hard material, it will bend ever so slightly when excessive pressures are applied and if those pressures are unbalanced something has to give.
    If the lower gums have changed, for what ever reason, the lower denture will usually always begin to split between the two front center teeth and over time the denture will beak in half....You can have the broken dentures repaired, but unless you deal with why they broke, they will break again and there is no time table for that to happen, It could happen in a few day's or a few weeks, but it will happen again.
    So what steps do you take to attempt to keep the dentures from breaking again?....You have two options. If the dentures are over six years old, it's probably time to have them replaced. If you have the dentures refitted by a process called "Relining", the dentures will once again fit all the gum tissues in a balanced fit and that will take away the undue stress pressure points.
    Now, let me give you this piece of information. If you have made a practice of soaking your dental appliance (dentures) in a strong solution of bleach over a long period of months or years, you need to know that many types of denture materials used to create dentures can be weakened buy the bleach. When some denture materials are subjected to strong bleach, the material eventually gets soft like slow rotted wood. Denture material in this state may appear to have accepted the repair material and made a bond, but the fact is, the connecting point between the old material and the new will be a weak point subject to breaking more easily than the good repair material.
    If you wish to ask a question or comment on this information, please feel free to contact, The Denture Pro., at the Email address shown above.

7 comments:

  1. That sounds really painful. Reading articles like this make me want to clean my teeth better. My family has a history of bad teeth, with three of my living grandparents having dentures. If it were to break like that while fit to your mouth...
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  2. I really don't know why someone would want to use bleach to clean their dentures. Sure, it kills a lot of bacteria. However, it's a really harsh chemical as well. Although, I imagine people don't take into account things like that. http://www.trussvilledentistry.com/dentures

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  3. Is hydrogen peroxide hard on dentures?

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  4. This is so true about I'll fitted dentures. They wind up breaking straight down the center. When the bite is thrown off. The stress and pressure they just snap.

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  5. Hi I was searching for the blogs for many times, now I have reached at the right place. dentist

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  6. It’s ridiculous that they can’t find a tougher material to make these with since they cost so much money! My lower dentures have broken three times in less than a month.

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  7. My last upper denture is 2years old and been broken three times ,my upper denture i had before that had broken three times also.i am at a loss at what to do.i can't chew my food properly and they hurt the roof of my mouth.help please

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