If you're facing extractions or are already missing teeth, consider today's modern dentures. Custom-crafted from quality materials and fitted to your needs and preferences, dentures from El Paso Viva Dental are key to your oral health and personal appearance. Highly skilled dentist, Dr. Steven Yi, will meet with you in his El Paso, TX, office and show you denture options and their benefits.

When we lose teeth

Speech, biting and chewing change when you lose even a single tooth. Beyond that, underlying bone structure and gum tissue resorb, or shrink, quickly, with changes happening within a year of tooth loss.

Your tooth replacement options

Your dentist offers customized denture options in his El Paso TX, office. After a careful examination and imaging of your mouth and bone structure, Dr. Yi will show what dentures may optimize your facial appearance and oral function.

Denture choices and their benefits include:

• Partial dentures. These appliances are crafted according to oral impressions. The lab technician selects realistically-colored acrylic materials and mounts the pontic teeth on a Vitallium alloy frame with anchoring clasps. Traditional partials fit well and are fully removable for cleaning.
• Immediate dentures After dental extractions, immediate dentures provide patients with a complete smile right away. They exert sufficient pressure on sutured areas to help speed healing. However, after a few weeks, these dentures no longer fit well and must be replaced or relined.
• Full, conventional dentures These replacement teeth are what most people think of as dentures. Held in the mouth by its natural suction, traditional dentures restore oral function. Patients remove them for cleaning and often leave them out at night so their oral tissues rest.
• Implant-supported dentures Today's preferred denture option, implant-supported dentures snap onto four to six implants on top and on two implants on the bottom arch. The titanium implants reside right in the jaw bone and effectively exercise the bone and soft tissues so they stay sizable and healthy.

A wonderful new smile

If you've suffered tooth loss, take hope in the wonderful denture options offered by Dr. Steven Yi at El Paso Viva Dental. Call us for a friendly and informative consultation: (915) 751-1007.