A full or complete denture is a removable device used for patients who have lost all their teeth. The only other solution to the missing teeth would be dental implants.

At Aesthetique Dental Care we provide ourselves in delivering high quality dentures in conjunction with skilled dental technicians to provide you with very satisfying aesthetic and comfortable dentures.

The pink plastic of the denture base is brittle acrylic, the same material used to make standard full dentures. The largest single advantage to this type of partial denture (besides expense) is that new teeth and new denture base can easily be added to an existing denture.

If later in the course of treatment some of the existing natural teeth are extracted for any reason, new false teeth can be added quickly to the partial, maintaining the patient's appearance. They are often considered as a temporary solution. The acrylic denture base tends to be brittle, and due to their irregular shape, these partials tend to break frequently, especially those made for the lower arch.
In order to counteract their tendency to break, the acrylic is usually built fairly thick which some patients may find difficult to adapt to.

The denture base rests only on the gums, and even though they are much more stable than full dentures, they are much less stable than the more permanent cobalt chrome based partial dentures which use clasps to gain support from the teeth.
As the gums recede the false teeth tend to sink below their original level making it necessary to reline them frequently, and sometimes even to reset the teeth which adds to their expense.

This type of partial denture offers numerous advantages over an acrylic based partial denture. They are made from a cast cobalt chrome (metal) framework, since they sit on the teeth, as well as being attached to them, they are extremely stable and retentive. They are usually more expensive than the acrylic dentures but can provide patients with many years of service.

These innovative new dentures offer patients the ability of a wearing a comfortable, cosmetic and virtually unbreakable metal free denture. Valplast dentures replace the metal, and the pink acrylic denture material used to build the framework for standard removable partial dentures.
It is nearly unbreakable, is coloured pink like the gums, can be built quite thin, and can form not only the denture base, but the clasps as well. Since the clasps are built to curl around the necks of the teeth, they are practically indistinguishable from the gums that normally surround the teeth.

Even though this denture does not rest on the natural teeth like the metal framework variety, the clasps rest on the gums surrounding the natural teeth.