Irrespective of the dental treatment done, the teeth need to be kept clean.
There is no alternative to good oral hygiene habits.
Brushing twice daily and rinsing after eating anything is necessary to have good oral health.
This patient came to Happy Smiles Dental Clinic, Pune with the complaint of swelling with respect to upper front teeth.
The patient had already lost some of her teeth and was using a removable partial denture.
Some of her teeth had crowns.
But due to lack of oral hygiene, the remaining teeth were no longer in good condition.
Her upper front teeth had infection. Only 2 of her lower teeth could be saved. Rest were extracted.
The remaining 2 lower teeth were kept so as to support the new denture.
They were used as support to a Tooth supported Overdenture.
Overdenture is a type of denture which takes support from the natural teeth present in mouth.
Patients often complain of experiencing problems with removable lower denture. They find that many times the lower denture doesn’t stay in place and hinders during eating.
Tooth supported Overdenture overcomes this problem by staying firmly in place over the remaining natural teeth.
The 2 teeth were treated with root canal treatment and their height was kept at gum level. Then overdenture attachments were placed. Another part of these attachment is fixed in inner surface the lower denture. This gave the lower denture good support.
She was happy to be able to use a removable denture with such ease.
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