Complete Dentures

before new dentures

Complete dentures mean they replace all the missing teeth. A complete denture can be made for either upper or lower jaw when all the natural teeth are missing.

Bone shrinks without the benefit of teeth or dental implants being present. When a patient loses their teeth early in life, they will continue to lose jaw bone over their lifetime. This makes wearing dentures more difficult.

As a specialist in prosthodontics, Dr. LuBovich can make a denture fit better, and be more functional, even when there is little foundation for dentures. Dentures use atmospheric pressure to hold the upper denture in place. Lower dentures seldom have the benefit of a large boney foundation; therefore, they are more of a difficulty for many patients. However, Dr. LuBovich can, most of the time, overcome foundation problems that patients experience by making a lower denture that is made in harmony with the lower jaw muscles. By making a lower denture that functions within the movement of the lower facial and tongue muscles, success can be accomplished in wearing dentures. There is another design criteria that helps patients wear and function with upper and lower dentures; it is that of placing a cutter bar in the upper denture and flat porcelain teeth in the lower jaw. This improves efficiency, decreases the deflection of the lower denture during chewing, and also stabilizes the dentures.

after new dentures

As a cosmetic and makeover specialist, Dr. LuBovich has studied smiles and smile designing. He has pioneered and developed techniques that enable dentures to be made to look like natural teeth. Dr. LuBovich will listen to what patients want in their smile, find out what it is the patient is saying, and make their smile, their way.

dentures can look natural	dentures can look real