Prosthodontic Services
Quality and integrity are our goals when creating dentures and dental implants for our patients in Marshall, TX.
Prosthodontic Services – Dental Clinic Marshall, TX
Marshall Dental works with Dr. Charles A. Parker and the Marshall Denture Clinic to provide prosthodontic dental services in Marshall, Texas. Prosthodontists specialize in restoring mouth function with biocompatible substitutes—the most common being dentures. The clinical staff is trained to deal with both simple and complicated restorations of the whole mouth, as well as treating facial deformities.
The team at Marshall Denture Clinic is especially skilled in denture and dental implant services, always utilizing the latest proven technologies. Whatever your tooth replacement needs are, our wide variety of modern prosthetic dentistry solutions can restore your mouth to full function and your smile to brilliant beauty.
Quality and integrity are our highest priorities, so you can rely on the entire team to provide treatment and care that will exceed your expectations.
Complete Dentures
This restoration method is used to restore your smile and mouth function if all of your teeth have been lost. The dentures are custom created to resemble natural teeth and are positioned into a patient’s mouth to take the place of where the natural teeth used to be. Complete dentures are removable and may require adjustments in order to create a proper fit with the gums and mouth.
Partial Dentures
A removable partial denture is a device used when one or more natural teeth remain in the upper or lower jaw. They usually consist of replacement teeth attached to a gum-colored plastic base which is held in place in the mouth. A fixed partial denture acts the same as a removable denture, but it is cemented into place using the adjacent teeth for support. This fills the space created by missing teeth, as well as creates a support for remaining teeth to prevent shifting.
Palateless Dentures
These are upper dentures without a palate, which can improve comfort and sense of taste. Palateless dentures are any upper denture that has no plate covering the upper palate; including dental implants, natural tooth-retained overdentures, fixed/removable restorations, or even a conventional palateless denture with a horseshoe-shaped frame. This type of denture is often recommended for patients with a highly sensitive gag reflex who have trouble adjusting to the palate in a conventional denture.
Precision-Attached Dentures
Attached Dentures have precision attachments to retain the dentures, possibly in combination with a milled titanium bar. This type of overdenture can be retained by natural teeth or dental implants, depending on your situation. At Marshall Denture Clinic, we call these "snap-on dentures," and they are typically removable.
Functionally-Impressed Dentures
Have you ever wished your denture could be more comfortable or fit more snugly and precisely? With functional impressions, a denture can now fit your mouth with unprecedented accuracy.
We first custom-fabricate a denture to our patient's bite. Then, we place a highly flowable impression material within the denture. When the patient chews, speaks or carries out normal functions, the muscle attachments and soft tissues of the mouth mold the denture into a precise functional impression. This impression technique (sometimes called the Pound denture technique or the Turbyfill denture technique), combines natural oral function with the impression-taking process so Dr. Parker gets the most accurate and detailed impression for fitting your dentures.
We will reline your dentures using hard acrylic or a soft liner using the functional impression we've made, and the result is a much more comfortable and exact-fitting denture.
Over Dentures (Snap-On)
Overdentures are any type of dentures, either full or partial, that fit over natural teeth or dental implants. Attachments are placed on the natural teeth or implants and the overdenture becomes a precision-attached prosthetic. A popular type of overdenture is what we call "snap-on dentures," which uses natural tooth and/or dental implants as the foundation for the attachment, either alone or in combination with a milled titanium bar.
Among the benefits of choosing overdentures is the deterrence of bone loss, since dental implants will actually maintain jawbone integrity, a lifelike look and feel, and improved speech and chewing function when compared with other dentures.
Lock-On Dentures
Also known as the "All-On-4" technique, this type of prosthesis is a fixed/removable alternative to conventional dentures. A precision-attached denture hybrid, lock-on dentures attach the dental restoration to implants placed in the upper or lower jaw. Depending on what is best for an individual patient, Dr. Parker may use a milled titanium bar with denture teeth to secure the denture, or he may use individual ceramic crowns.
Dentures are traditionally held in place by an adhesive (bottom) or natural suction (top). But over time, ridges on the gums wear down from constant pressure, and the resulting smooth gums make dentures more inclined to slip, slide, or wobble. If you’d like a solid solution for denture stabilization, consider Lock-on dentures, a dental implant procedure by Nobel Biocare.
By having four dental implant posts placed in your jaw, Dr. Parker can create a foundation that will hold your denture securely. In some cases, dentures can be retrofitted with implant snaps, but most often, a custom denture is necessary. This denture will snap, or "lock on" to the four implants. Lock-on denture patients enjoy a higher quality of life, improved dietary possibilities, and greater confidence in social situations.
Soft-Liner Dentures
Unlike traditional hard-liner dentures, soft-liner dentures are the dentures we produce from using the functional impression technique. Once we have the precise information gleaned from that impression technique, we customize your denture with the soft reline material. Dr. Parker highly recommends this type of denture for patients with significant jaw atrophy. These types of dentures are much more stable and comfortable than those with hard liners.