Inability to chew with Dentures Causes & Remedies - Dr. Girish Rao

Dentures have been there for the last century or more where teeth have been lost, people have gone in for dentures. But the problem with dentures is these have to be removed at night and the chewing efficacy is not very good. What tends to happen is when we have removed all the teeth, the bone height is pretty good and the denture fits in pretty good but after a couple of years, the fact that you are chewing food with the dentures in place, the force is being transmitted to the bone and the bone starts wearing off and this leads to bone loss and ultimately the dentures become very loose . This ill-fitting dentures is a big problem and the way we can circumvent this is we put in screws in the jaw bone and this is fixed into the jaw bone and on this we can give a bridge from molar to molar. This can transform the way you can chew. Because these are fixed, the biting force is transmitted onto the bone rather than to the surface. There is absolutely no bone loss when there is implants. If we look at when we have natural teeth, the chewing force is around 300 Newton centimeter and that is where the efficiency goes down and that is where your health starts deteriorating over a period of time. With your implants in place and giving you a bridge the chewing efficiency or the biting force is almost back to your normalcy, that is about 300 to 500 Newton centimeter. That is the biggest advantage with the implant in.

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Sir, is there any device for chewing the food without removing the old broken teeth.