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3 Tips For Caring For Your Dentures

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Dentures are an excellent investment for those who are missing all or most of their teeth. Dentures give you a mouth full of teeth once again, allowing you to eat more easily and also to feel more confident when you are talking with and smiling at people. Just as with real teeth, it is important that your dentures are well cared for. This allows them to function as they should and can also increase how long they last you. Here are three tips for caring for your dentures. 

Place Them In A Denture Solution Each Night

Each night before bed, you will take your dentures out and brush them. Once you are done brushing them, you should place them inside a closable container that is filled with a denture solution. To create this denture solution, you simply need to mix water with a citric acid and carbonation tablet. This tablet will help to remove any and all germs and build up from your dentures that may have been left behind after brushing. Also, the water in the solution ensures that your dentures remain moist and reduces the risk of them drying out. 

Take Them In For Repair At The First Sign Of An Issue 

If you notice that your dentures are beginning to breakdown or otherwise fall apart in a certain area, then it is important to take them in to be repaired right away. If you take them in while the damage is still minimal, then the fix will likely be quite simple. However, if you wait, not only will the damage become worse and the dentures won't function as you need them to, but the repair will also likely be more time consuming and costly. This will also mean that you have to use temporary dentures while they are being fixed, or simply go without them. Neither situation is ideal, so taking your dentures in at the first sign of an issue is the best way to go. 

Don't Handle Them Excessively

While you will of course need to put your dentures in your mouth in the morning and out of your mouth at night, it is important that you aren't handling your dentures too often. You should hold them in your hand when brushing them, but this is really the only time they should be in your mouth for an extended period of time. Other than that, you should keep them in your mouth or in a denture solution. This helps to reduce the risk of them being dropped, drying out, being covered with germs, or otherwise becoming damaged. 

Contact a dental office, like Dental Studios of MacArthur, for more help.


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