It is pretty safe to say that anything that you have done at the dentists, from braces to cosmetic procedures such as crowns, every treatment veers towards protecting one thing- your occlusion (bite). This is how your jaws come together and as long as this is kept true, it will save you from more dangerous conditions developing all over your upper body. It is also why you should have a tooth/teeth replaced if lost. Dentures have been around in central Leeds for decades and although they haven’t had the best of press over the years, they do a job. However they have gone through quite a renaissance of late and dare it be said, are coming back in vogue again. This is because better treatments of gum disease has reduced tooth loss so that now, people are opting for cheap, great looking partial dentures as opposed to other options; they are easy to manage and they are really low maintenance- they also bond to the mouth and surrounding teeth very well indeed. Full dentures too have had a makeover: more superior, natural-looking materials, better adhesives and the mini-implant have made full dentures much easier and more reliable to wear. Tooth loss is never easy and can be quite tough to handle, but it is lovely to know that dentures are an option, are very viable, cheap and a quick way of overcoming the problem.

It is very easy to be damning about dentures, even more horrifying the thought of having to wear them; but then, they haven’t had a good track record up until recently in Leeds: they weren’t portrayed in a good light. Yet they are very much back in vogue and there are two major reasons for this. The first is that less and less people are having to wear full dentures because of the way dentists treat gum and periodontal disease; dentists today are more excited about saving teeth, rather than pulling them at the merest hint of trouble. Hence there has been a massive rise in the number of people opting for chic, easy-to-wear partial dentures, after all, they are easy to manage and a lot cheaper than implants and bridges. The second reason is the way modern dentures are manufactured and the adhesives used to keep them in the mouth. They are softer and natural looking so when they are in the mouth, they adhere better and look better, and with the adhesives, they’ll stay put. There is a remarkable irony to those who wear dentures today though: dental implants were meant to be the modern day saviour to tooth loss and consign dentures to history. So it is remarkable that they are being used to help keep full dentures in the mouth far better than ever before. If you have suffered any form of tooth loss, maybe you should give dentures a second look.