Removable replacements for missing teeth, dentures can be made out of acrylic resin, porcelain or metal for additional structural support. When properly maintained, dentures appear natural and provide a perfect smile, helping to strengthen the muscles, which control your facial expressions ending pronunciation problems and helping you to chew your food.

The Picton Dental team will work hard to ensure that your new teeth look as natural as possible, ensuring your new set of dentures match the form, shape and size of your original teeth as closely as possible.

Acrylic Dentures

Acrylic dentures come in both full and partial versions, depending on your individual needs. At Picton Dental we offer many different acrylic denture designs, some which rely on bonding or clasping onto teeth or dental implants.

Chrome Dentures

Chrome dentures can replace one or more missing teeth, to give you improved oral function and preserve your facial features.

These cast metal dentures can be a more permanent partial denture, because unlike plastic partial dentures, they are clipped to your natural teeth with clasps and incorporate rests on the teeth. The clasps help to hold the denture firm, and the rests stop any damaging up and down movement. Chrome dentures are stabilised in your mouth with denture adhesive gel to prevent shifting and irritation.

Chrome cobalt partial dentures can be a better alternative to plastic partial dentures, being thinner and allowing your gums to stay healthier by sharing the biting force between the gums and your remaining teeth. You may also be able to benefit from having an open palate version, which can help you to taste food better and detect hot and cold more easily.

Valplast

The Valplast Flexible Partial is a very comfortable removable partial denture that is practically invisible, completely eliminating unsightly metal clasps. Instead of a metal frame, Valplast is made from a strong, durable plastic that snaps securely and comfortably into place around your existing teeth and gums.

This strong plastic is also very thin, so you won’t have that heavy, bulky feeling that can be part of wearing many partial dentures. An added bonus is that the colour, shape and design of Valplast Flexible Partials is designed to blend in with your natural gums, making the partial virtually invisible.

Denture Stabilisation

Picton Dental now offers the use of dental implants to stabilise and retain a removable denture, keeping it firmly in place while you’re chewing and talking, but also allowing it to be removed for cleaning.

Implant stabilised dentures can give you the freedom to eat what you like, and the confidence that your dentures won’t move in the mouth. This removable teeth replacement option gives you stability and retention to your dentures, at an economical cost.

Although in most cases it’s preferable to retain your natural teeth, sometimes after investigating every alternative, a tooth will need to be extracted to ensure your continued good oral health. This could be the case if you’re suffering from extensive decay, a bone infection, an irreparable fracture, or impacted wisdom teeth.

As part of your treatment, to prevent your nearby teeth from moving out of alignment the Picton Dental team will advise you on your options for a suitable tooth replacement, such as a fixed or removable bridge, or dental implants.

If you have a painful tooth, it is possible that the pulp has become exposed, perhaps as a result of decay or injury, such as a fractured tooth. Pulp that is exposed to your mouth’s bacteria can become infected, in which case root canal therapy can help.

With root canal therapy your dentist will remove the infected pulp, clean and disinfect the root canal, and fill it to minimise the possibility of re-infection. A dental crown is then placed over your tooth to secure the treatment and give a natural appearance.

In spite of what you may have heard, root canal therapy is not necessarily a painful procedure, in fact feeling similar to having a filling replaced. There may be some tenderness for a day after your therapy, which can be treated with over-the-counter pain relief.