We are all born without teeth. Becoming toothless again, however, is evitable in most cases. But those patients who have reached this state can report on numerous unsuccessful dental attempts, such as treatments to keep teeth, tons of fixed and removable dentures, not to mention the time spent at the dentistry and the loads of money paid for it. The treatment of the toothless state is the most difficult task of a dentist. The situation of a toothless patient is the least optimal, since the real teeth in the bone, which could hold the denture, are already missing. Nowadays missing teeth are substituted with a foreign body, when everything else all around is moving (e.g. tongue, lips, cheek). The gum itself is not hard, but it can be squeezed in a certain amount. Because of this the denture placed onto the gum is definitely not stable. The denture in the mouth of a patient gives the feeling of a huge foreign body. Our body either wants to "spit it out" or swallow it, but (surely not) keep it! Not to mention the fact that this is what the patients uses for chewing! With his teeth the toothless patient also looses his receptors of the parodontal tissue, that control the masticatory muscle. The absence of these receptors causes the masticatory muscle's disfunction, which develops the so-called empty-movement. The patient moves his jaws involuntarily; the teeth of the lower and upper jaw cling together, which causes a constant injury of the mucous membrane and the reduction of the mandible bone on a long term. Not to mention the aesthetic problems.
The impression we get of someone's face is considerably determined by the person's teeth. The teeth of a denture do not resemble to real teeth neither in form, nor in colour or position. We could write a book on the different types of fears that patients have in connection with dentures: "Is everyone going to know I'm wearing one?" or "Is it going to fall out while I'm talking?" and so on. The denture is just a substitution, not real teeth!
All problems lead to lead to unsatisfaction among patients with dentures. The reason why neither technicians, nor dentists are encouraged to treat patients without teeth is that they earn the least money with making full dentures.
Unfortunately the situation is the same everywhere in the world.
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