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Recommendations and tips on caring for dental prostheses
Often older people do not properly care for oral hygiene, long-term end up losing their teeth, or allowing them to deteriorate over the years.
To replace them as the teeth are essential to feed, and keep our body healthy, using prosthetic, which are often fixed, others removed, and can replace one or more teeth, including crowns or caps exist, bridges, implants and dentures. But the same especially the latter requires some care.
Especially if you have recently been placed, you will be asked the patient to eat soft foods and foods that will incorporate a little harder. You must also chew soft food slowly to avoid damaging the structure of the mouth, and not threaten the prosthesis.
Unless otherwise noted specialist, dentures must be removed before you start cleaning, to prevent accumulation of plaque, they should not be cleaned with boiling water because heat can damage and loosen the teeth only the must sanitize water at natural temperature and liquid indicated by our dentist.
If you experience discomfort of any kind, or bruises, blisters caused by the prosthesis, the patient should immediately consult with their trusted specialist.