Partial Denture (Cast metal framework)

Pearl Dental Center offers comfortable, form-fitting dentures for all cases, ranging from partial to full sets. Come in for a free consultation with the doctor to identify the best option for your needs. Don't forgot to ask about dental implants to see if this alternative is right for you.

On partial dentures:

The all-acrylic kind (also called a flipper) are the fastest partial dentures to make, often in 1-2 days, and are also the least expensive. The missing teeth are usually made of acrylic, held in a base of acrylic. They are an excellent way to replace one or a few front teeth, usually whilst undergoing treatment in other areas of the mouth or while waiting to heal up from other treatment. However, some people wear their flippers for years and find them very functional and very comfortable. 

Cast Partial dentures are very fine, very precisely-fitting partials cast to precision on a model of your teeth. In this kind of partial, the missing teeth are usually made of acrylic, and they are held in place on a base of metal. This metal base fits very snugly in your mouth, has excellent retention, is very easy to keep clean and fresh and conducts temperatures so they feel more life-like than partials made of all acrylic. The only drawback is that they take a little longer to make, they are more expensive than the flippers and sometimes, the metal of the supporting base can be visible.

Finally, partial dentures can be made of a space-age, thermoplastic, soft, durable, flexible material called Valplast. Full Dentures can be of the Immediate kind, in which the teeth are extracted only on the day the denture is ready to be inserted in your mouth, so that you do not have to walk around and go to work without teeth for even asingle day.