How are the prosthesis constructed?
It takes time to get accustomed to full or partial dentures.This may take up to 2 months.Sometimes the patients are supposed to wear their prosthesis without taking it out in order to be able to show the dentist the problems that are present. This way it is possible to determine the problems and the dentist does a few adjustments to sort it out.Since the soft tissues remodel continously with the underlying bone it is a very common problem that dentures may cause problems from time to time. Problems with dentures include the fact that patients are not used to having something in their mouth that is not food. The brain senses this appliance as “food” and sends messages to the salivary glands to produce more saliva and to secrete it at a higher rate. This will only happen in the first 12 to 24 hours, after which, the salivary glands return to their normal output. New dentures can also be the cause of sore spots as they compress the soft tissues mucosa (denture bearing soft tissue). A few
