Submitted by: Barrie Semp

When you begin eating with your new dentures it is important to start very slowly. Eating at first may present difficulties; in fact it is the most difficult part of mastering new dentures. Dont be discouraged if you experience a few failures at first, natural teeth are fixed in bone whilst your artificial dentures only rest on the bone. When you chew on one side of your mouth you may find notice a tendency for your dentures to tip and loosen on the opposite side. Attempt to chew food evenly on both sides of your teeth. This will prevent your dentures form tipping while you are eating.

Provided that you are patient and spend the necessary time practicing eating with your new dentures you will learn to control the automatically using the muscles of mastication in your mouth. With some new dentures it may be necessary to increase the height of the upper and lower teeth so as to have them contact sooner. This may have to be done through the use of an appliance known as an occlusal splint or bite splint. With a change such as this you may have to develop new eating habits simply because you will chew your food at a different position than that of your old dentures.

Here are a few eating tips when wearing new dentures;

Eat food that does not need hard chewing

Take smaller mouthfuls and chew slowly and evenly

At first dont bite off food with your front teeth you will learn how to do this later

Cut food into smaller pieces that can easily fit in your mouth.

As you become more skilled at eating while wearing your new dentures you will be able to try harder and tougher foods and eventually you will be able to use your front teeth for biting. Remember with your natural teeth you bite and pulled but with your dentures you bite and push. Sometimes you may have difficulty eating very thin foods such as lettuce or the skins of apples and tomatoes. Its often easier to eat apples if you first peel them or slice them into quarters.

Be sure to regularly clean your dentures after eating. If plaque from eating with your new dentures is not removed on a daily basis it may affect the way your dentures fit, your dentures may not look correct, you may experience profound denture odours and even your health may be at risk. Therefore, it is important that you clean your dentures every day.

If a problem arises, seek further advice and treatment from your denturist, dentist or orthodontist. Here at The Smile Centre UK we provide support for our patients struggling with the use of new dentures. Often patients have come to us in the past as their current dentures have been poorly fitted by a previous dentures and causing them pain as well as discomfort during eating. When applying for new dentures, it is advisable you seek the best quality service offering handcrafted dentures.

For more information about caring for fixed dentures, speak to your dentist. Alternatively, if you are interested in learning more about full or partial fixed dentures or dental implants, visit the website of Manchester’s The Smile Centre UK at http://www.thesmilecentreuk.co.uk or call us directly on 0844 3098 994.

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