living with your denture

Living With Your Dentures

Adjusting To Your Dentures
Possible Complications
Denture Care
Relining And Rebasing

Adjusting To Your Dentures

Eating
If you have just received your dentures, avoid raw
vegetables, fibrous meats and sticky foods for the first
few months. Cut your food into small pieces. When
biting, avoid using your front teeth. Instead, use your
canine teeth (the pointed ones) and the teeth just
behind them. Do not pull or tear your food in a forward
direction; instead, push back as you bite. When you
chew, try to have some food on either side of your mouth
to stabilize your dentures. Do not expect the same
eating efficiency you had with your natural teeth, even
after you become experienced.
Eating a proper diet is especially important for people
who wear dentures. As a group, denture wearers tend to
have lower-quality diets than do people with most or all
of their natural teeth. They ma