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People who are contemplating, getting dentures often have concerns, about how it might alter their features. This is a question that comes up frequently, in discussions about dentures. Dentures can indeed lead to changes, in one’s appearance. However, these alterations generally lead to results.
Understanding the Impact of Dentures on Facial Structure
So, What Happens to Your Face Without Teeth?
The loss of natural teeth, leads to jawbone shrinkage, because the chewing process no longer provides, necessary stimulation, to the bone structure. The bone loss causes your cheeks, to droop while your lips appear thinner, which leads to an older appearance. Your face depends heavily on teeth and jaw structure for its overall support system.
How Dentures Help
Dentures are designed, to replace missing teeth, and provide support, for your cheeks and lips while improving the look of your face, when properly fitted in your mouth. They help fill in gaps, left by missing teeth, for a fuller facial appearance, often giving a more youthful look, to individuals who wear them.
Will the Change Be Obvious?
The change in appearance is usually very slight and positive. You may look healthier or happier, but they probably won’t realize it’s because of dentures. Today’s dentures are made to look natural and match your smile and facial features.
Getting Used to the New Look
Adjusting to wearing dentures might require some time as you look at yourself in the mirror and sense the dentures, in your mouth. With care and a proper fit over time you will grow accustomed, to them and feel more at ease and self-assured. If your dentures ever seem loose. If you are uneasy, your dentist can make some modifications to ensure fitness.
Trust Your Smile with Smithville Dental
The team at Smithville Dental recognizes that your smile, together with your facial features, determines your self-assurance. Our team dedicates time to designing dentures that provide both comfort and natural appearance and sufficient support. Patients who need full or partial denture sets receive complete support from our Smithville dental team.
Schedule an appointment at Smithville Dental to learn how dentures will improve your smile and facial appearance. Your path to increased self-assurance starts when you visit Smithville Dental for consultation.