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Please help me choose a denture adhesive.?
I'm going in next week to have all my teeth removed and get dentures. Obviously I'll need a good adhesive, but I don't know which ones will work best for me, and I'm having trouble finding the information online.
Obviously it needs to be zinc-free. Additionally, I'm very leery of both aspartame and sucralose (DON'T tell me how safe they are; I've read the studies, and I'm not convinced), and I absolutely HATE the taste of mint and of saccharine. And, since these are entirely new, and it will take time for things to heal and swelling to go down, it needs to fill gaps.
And the sooner I can get an answer, the better the chance that I'll be able to get what I need by the time I need it.
Thanks in advance.
2 Answers
- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
If the denture fits properly you should not need an adhesive. With having an immediate denture you can expect some looseness after 6 months to a year at this time you may want to consider a denture reline to make it fit to your mouth shape.
When having an immediate denture you have to wear it all the time for the first while( how ever long your dentist/deturist recommends? so the tissues heal to the shape the denture is. While the tissues are healing I do not recommend any denture adhesive as it may irritate.
Very rarely do I se patients needing an adhesive unless their denture does not fit properly. Remember it will be a big adjustment so please be patient and give it time to adjust.
Source(s): I am a dental hygienist. - 7 years ago
Big adjustment is right! I'd rather get implants, but I can't afford them, and even if I could my brother got implants and they're constantly getting infected -- he warned me off.
And none of this is made any easier by the facts that I'm insensitive to most local anesthetics, and had a whole series of sadistic dentists as a child. At least there's conscious sedation available now. It helped immensely when I had my cataracts removed -- though it didn't keep me from jerking when the surgeon touched my eye very gently with a cotton swab, THEN figured out that I knew what I was talking about when I told him that lidocaine doesn't work on me. I didn't know it was a cotton swab -- was very afraid that I'd injured myself by jerking when the laser began cutting.
Fortunately, dentists and oral surgeons are more knowledgeable about local anesthetics and insensitivity to them.
I'm planning to drive to Oregon to spend a few months visiting my mother shortly after the surgery. (The surgeon said I could get small adjustments (?) done there, even though it's not on my insurance plan.) The surgeon also said that there's a tendency for the tongue to push the dentures out of the mouth until you become accustomed to them. Would one of those thin film adhesives help with that? I saw it in the grocery store and had a look at the ingredients -- no zinc and no flavors at all. Obviously, as you said, not while the gums are still healing.
