Immediate Dentures

Immediate dentures are fitted immediately following tooth extraction, offering aesthetic benefits, as well as helping to maintain masticatory function and re-learning speech patterns.
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Immediate Dentures

Immediate dentures offer the benefit of aesthetics, duplicating the shape, colour and arrangement of your patient’s natural teeth while they’re still in the mouth. It also means your patient doesn’t have missing teeth for too long. Immediate dentures can also maintain masticatory function and help with re-learning speech patterns.

Considerations

Some possible disadvantages of immediate dentures include the higher cost, when compared to conventional dentures. Immediate dentures can often require refitting and remodelling as they don’t always fit as accurately as conventional dentures, which are made after the tissues have healed for 1-2 months following tooth extraction.
Therefore, a soft temporary reline material is used to re-fit the denture when it becomes loose during the healing process. The good news is, once the immediate dentures have stabilised and been refitted, it can act as a spare.