Overview

Missing teeth is not only cosmetic imperfection, missing teeth may lead to significant complications including damaging remaining teeth, surrounding soft tissues, facial muscles and even premature aging. To understand the importance of Dental Plate and to prevent permanent consequences missing teeth can bring, we gathered some essential information, but first it’s important to know what Dental Plate is. Dental Plate or better known as dentures is either partial or complete dental appliance to replace missing teeth with artificial ones. Dental Plate aka dentures are removable, so you can easily take them out for cleaning or little dental adjustments. As a matter of fact, Dental Plate is one of the most popular techniques nowadays to replace missing natural teeth. Dental Plate has invisible clasps to keep the denture in place and can either be made of plastic or a mixture of plastic and metal. There are many kinds of dental plates or dentures as they’re commonly called. Flexible, metal. Partial or full. Implant supported or naturally. The first thing most people care about when missing teeth is their appearance. However, Dental Plate serves a bigger purpose than just making your smile look healthy and complete. When a person has missing teeth, remaining natural teeth start shifting in the mouth in order to compensate for the “gaps”. This process leads to the deformation of underlying structures of the mouth, starting from natural teeth to fracture and distort.