Your Guide To Great-Looking Dentures
By James Allen | Published on February 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
Removable dentures come in all shapes, sizes, and aesthetic looks. Dr. James Allen of Middle Tennessee Prosthodontics, LLC, specializing in the placement of dentures in Nashville, offers some helpful guidance on choosing the dentures that are right for you.
At Dr. Allen’s practice in Nashville, dentures patients are encouraged to request more natural-looking teeth as opposed to the biggest, whitest teeth they can buy. “The more natural looking prosthetic teeth will give them the most similar look to their original smiles,” says Allen.
Getting a natural looking set of dentures starts with selecting a premium-quality denture tooth. Top denture materials encompass multiple layers of color, translucency, and reflectivity, and are essential for creating natural-looking, long-lasting dentures. Dr. Allen uses only the highest quality materials at his practice in Nashville, so dentures patients who visit his office can always feel confident when selecting their personal dentures.
When shopping for dentures, Dr. Allen stresses that quality is the most importance factor. “If people are shopping around for dentures at other clinics based on price alone, then they can expect to get dentures in Nashville that look and feel cheap,” says Allen. “Low quality dentures have less wear resistance, and they tend to look much less natural.”
Dr. Allen recommends that people who want natural looking dentures start out with a premium denture material. From there, patients should make sure to tell their prosthodontists that they want a set of teeth that replicates their natural dentition as closely as possible. Since patients are often coming to Dr. Allen’s practice without teeth, the prosthodontist will ask them to bring in pictures from a time when they still had full smiles. This often means bringing in photos from high school, or other early periods of the patients life. Based on those photos, Dr. Allen and his team will replicate the smile as closely as they can to make the dentures look like the patient’s original teeth.
Finally, Dr. Allen does everything possible to ensure his patients are happy with the final outcome. This includes scheduling multiple try-on appointments when necessary so people can see what their dentures will look like before they are completely finished. If a patient is not satisfied with the appearance of their new dentures, Dr. Allen and his team will do everything possible to change the look and feel to exactly meet the patient’s needs.
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