Immediate Dentures Highlands Ranch Denver Dentist

What are immediate dentures- Highlands Ranch Dental patients?

An immediate denture is when our Highlands Ranch and Denver dentists have your remaining teeth extracted and a denture in placed immediately over the extraction sites.  You leave our Highlands Ranch Dental office with "teeth" (dentures in place).

Around three months later a second complete denture is fabricated from scratch. There are two reasons why we do this

• First... the tissue shrinks and the denture becomes loose
• Second... we can control the esthetics of the denture to a greater degree

Cost of an immediate denture- Highlands Ranch Dentists... Dr's James and Candace DeLapp

What patients present with is considerably variable and to state one fee or even a set of fees would be misleading at best.  The fees presented for an immediate denture are just to give you a "ballpark figure" of cases and each case and patient is unique unto himself or herself.  Obviously, these are routine cases, moderate and complex cases and each has its own level of complexity and corresponding costs.  At Cottonwood Dental Group P.C. Highlands Ranch Dentists ...we customaries your care and the "complementary cosmetic consultation" can give you at least an "idea" of where to start. So

Immediate Dentures... Highlands Ranch Dentists

Of course there is the cost borne in having the teeth extracted by the oral surgeon.  This "may" run from $ 100- 200 per tooth.  Impacted or surgical extraction run more and depends upon how difficult they are to remove.  The oral surgeon can give you an "estimate" of the costs but we truly do not know until time of the surgery.

Two (2) dentures are made per arch (two (2) upper and two (2) lower) and the cost for both is higher to account for this.  Circa 2008 the cost is $3600.00 or $7200.00 (or more) for upper and lower dentures.  When the teeth are taken out ... a "temporary" denture is placed until healing is complete.  Then a second esthetic denture is made from scratch.

Highlands Ranch Dentists...Dr. James and Candace DeLapp only do immediate dentures ...followed by a second denture.  We have never had a patient get used to dentures when they first had theirteeth extracted (with no immediate denture) and then had a denture made after healing. Our Highlands Ranch Dentists do not like making "only" an immediate "single" denture they cannot control the esthetics pre-extraction.

The second denture... Highlands Ranch Dentists

After 3 months or more in the immediate denture your tissues (hopefully) are "relatively" stable and a second esthetic denture can be fabricated.  Each patient presents with unique situations and no tow cases are alike.

This denture typically takes "at least" five (5) appointments as follows:

• Primary impressions: Initial impression in order to make a custom impression tray for your mouth.
• Secondary Impressions: These impressions are taken in order to get a more accurate more detailed impression of you tissues and your tissue "borders". We hope this impression is an average of the fluctuations in the tissue firmness in your mouth but this can vary day by day.  This tissue variation can be responsible for denture sore or the intermittent "fit" of the dentures.\Wax bite appointment:  This appointment is to get the relationship between your upper and lower teeth... how much tooth display we want to work with etc.
• Wax-try-in appointment: This appointment is where the teeth are actually fitted into the wax rims and we can get and ideal of the esthetics (not the fit!) of the teeth.  This appointment could range from one to "several" appointments.  Typically, but not always, we have the patients take the wax-try-in home and have their spouse or significant other look at.  The teeth are in a soft wax so the patient cannot function or use the denture it is only for the "looks' of the denture.  When the teeth are in wax it is relatively easy to replace the teeth... flair them... rotate them and etc.  Once the teeth have been processed and are imbedded in acrylic our only option might be starting completely over (with complete start over costs).  This is why this visit is so important! At this visit we have you sign a wax-try-in agreement, which says the esthetics, is to your approval and you do not want anything changed.  If after processing the denture you want something changed (remember it is too late) the costs can be the same (around $2750 or more!).
• Process and delivery appointment: This appointment is after the dental laboratory melts out the wax (lost wax technique) and replaces the wax with acrylic.  We then deliver the denture and make bite adjustments.  Bite adjustments are very likely at this visit as the acrylic expands and shrinks differing amounts in different cases.
• Follow up visit may be one or many.  Depending upon your daily tissue fluctuations (a sea of mucosa) the denture may develop sores periodically.

How well do dentures fit?

 In a sentence... not very well. All dentures move and our Highlands Ranch Dentists advise their patients that a lower denture NEVER fits!  Implant can improve the stability some but dental patients need to practice balancing their denture in their mouth.

Please feel free to contact our Highlands Ranch Dentists, Dr. James DeLapp and Dr. H. Candace DeLapp for an appointment. Our Highlands Ranch Dental office is located at the corner of Lincoln and Quebec.  For Parker Colorado Dental patients go west on Lincoln 4.5 miles from I25.  For Ken Caryl dental patients go east on C470 to Quebec and then turn south to Lincoln.  Our Highlands Ranch dental office is on the north east corner of that intersection.

Please call (303) 694-9740