415-333-3919Dentures are just those clattery pearly whites things from TV, right? Actually, dentures are dental tools designed to take the place of chompers in those without chompers, and they do a lot more than clatter around. Read on to find out how false teeth support their wearers and how prevalent they really are.
False teeth are oral appliances intended to replace a few or all of a wearer’s pearly whites. When pearly whites break down, patients find themselves having difficulty eating and speaking, so dentures are formed to fix those problems. Unlike some previous forms of dentures, today’s dentures are developed from durable, tooth-like composite resins, meaning that they’ll save you smiling bright and beautifully for a long time.
And think it or not, false teeth are more common than you might think. In the USA, approximately 40 million people use dentures, whether partial dentures or complete dentures. This means that approximately 10% of the population is using false teeth. While about 60% of people aged 65-74 wear a form of dentures, less than 4% of people aged 18-34 wear false teeth. The average age of false teeth in use in the present is 16 years.
Dr. Peter Karsant and their team can be reached at 415-333-3919, so pencil in your next checkup with the San Francisco, California, Karsant Dentistry practice by calling them now.