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FAQ - Eating Will I be without teeth or unable to eat for a long time? Will I be without teeth or unable to eat for a long time? Whilst healing you will be able to eat and wear your denture and function normally. The less time the denture sits over the healing tissue the better, yet most people during the first few weeks can watch TV at home with their denture in their pocket, popping it in if the door bell rings. Yes, pending the shape and quality of the bone and the absence of any infection in the bone. The chance of success for immediate placement is lowered slightly but the advantage is that the bone is immediately given a purpose, so, the bone levels can often, but not always, be preserved. The outer bone around the neck of the tooth is only 0.5 to 1 mm wide and it supports the gum. It can disappear within days of an extraction, but remain if the implant is placed immediately. By condensing the multiple stages into one appointment, the emotional load is lessened. Quite the option for a slightly timid person with sound gums and without an abscess at the root tip. Delayed placement after an extraction requires waiting 8 weeks for the bone to heal, so immediate placement can also shorten the time span between commencement and the final smile. Tooth loss happens from the back forwards. You are at a predictable terminal stage - heading toward ‘no teeth’. Chewing is meant to happen at the back, the front teeth are for smiling. Chewing with the delicate front teeth will crack, craze and fracture the edges, giving you a smile with serrations, just like a breadknife. The job of 28 or 32 teeth cannot be loaded onto 6 uppers and 6 lowers. Why, that is 3 times the load on delicate slender designs not intended for crushing, tearing, snipping, squelching and pulverizing. Would you carve the roast pork with the edge of a priceless and irreplaceable fine bone china saucer? The trouble free life of the front teeth depends upon keeping the forces off them. Is a 2-legged chair stable without the 2 rear ones to balance and share? There is an old saying "that one of the few pleasures left for the elderly is eating". Partial dentures are notoriously troublesome unless kept in your handkerchief, so the only alternative is either implants or to bravely continue funding failing dentistry on the overworked front teeth. Expensive, troublesome and most inconvenient. That’s a wealthy person’s option. Implants are for the poor! Your front tooth only fractures at 6 PM the night of an important function. They know you have given them a hard life and it’s their way of getting back for your years of indecision and appetite. |
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