I have new dentures – 7 front teeth top bridge on a chrome platform – but they are painful, what can I do?
Q.
I have just picked up my new dentures. They are a 7 tooth front top bridge on a chrome platform. They look awful, dont fit and hurt me. I was told to go away and let them bed in for 3 to 4 days. After 4 hours I have raging toothache as I am sure the tooth to the side of the bridge is being pushed sideways and the chrome plate comes nowhere near the roof of my mouth. I cant eat, cant smile and cant talk. What am I to do, I am beside myself with worry.
I have just picked up my new dentures. They are a 7 tooth front top bridge on a chrome platform. They look awful, dont fit and hurt me. I was told to go away and let them bed in for 3 to 4 days. After 4 hours I have raging toothache as I am sure the tooth to the side of the bridge is being pushed sideways and the chrome plate comes nowhere near the roof of my mouth. I cant eat, cant smile and cant talk. What am I to do, I am beside myself with worry.
A.
A denture always needs time to settle. But it would seem you either were never explained or misunderstood what treatment would involve and achieve. You need to sit down with them and address your concerns.
1 thing to bring up may be that it is not customary or recommended to make a denture especially a chrome one that pushes up against mobile teeth unless you have informed the patient that they should be removed and they ask you not to.
It is likely the fit will improve with adjustment but cosmetics will not.
You would have signed off on the cosmetics at the try in stage
A denture always needs time to settle. But it would seem you either were never explained or misunderstood what treatment would involve and achieve. You need to sit down with them and address your concerns.
1 thing to bring up may be that it is not customary or recommended to make a denture especially a chrome one that pushes up against mobile teeth unless you have informed the patient that they should be removed and they ask you not to.
It is likely the fit will improve with adjustment but cosmetics will not.
You would have signed off on the cosmetics at the try in stage
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