Patients who wear dentures for long periods of time will lose the bone that originally held the teeth. This bone is called alveolar bone. This bone resorbs rapidly after tooth extraction and continues to resorb while wearing dentures. When the bone dissapears to a great extent, your dentures no longer fit properly and you will have trouble eating or functioning in the way you did when you had teeth.
Bone substitutes or pieces of your own bone can be placed on your existing bone to build both horizontal and vertical bone height to make a denture feel better or to improve, augment, your own bone for implants.
The longer you wear dentures the more bone is lost. People with extensive bone loss become dental cripples. They can't function at all and have a difficult time in public due to the constant movement of their dentures. Speaking becomes a problem as well as inability to eat properly.
Please let us evaluate your current condition and we can make suggestions that will insure that you don't become a dental cripple. The earlier the treatment begins the better the prognosis and the less you have to suffer.
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