Another interesting finding i've had that support my theory are the fact that people who wear dentures for years will often age far slower than people with natural teeth.
But dentures are not worn while people sleep, so isn't that a significant period of time for some collapse to occur? Or is the daily wearing of them enough to prevent collapse? My dad has had insane health issues that coincided with losing all his teeth. He wears dentures but still has major issues and spinal collapse (terrible osteoporosis due to terrible gut issues and consequent malabsorption) but I wonder if wearing a mouth guard at night without dentures could help?
if you dont wear the dentures to sleep and dont wear a mouthguard... then yes perhaps collapse will occur.
I think it depends on whether the dentures also lock a single occlusion. If they dont.. then perhaps just wearing dentures during the day is enough to keep your structure where it is.
And yes i think wearing a mouthguard at night when he's not wearing his dentures will help.
I'd also look into how the dentures fit together and see if perhaps they can be modified to instead be on a flat contact.
Some decent information, some inaccurate information. If people have ground down their teeth, it is because they have a small airway, maxillary deficiency, or the mandible is up and back.
Another interesting finding i've had that support my theory are the fact that people who wear dentures for years will often age far slower than people with natural teeth.
Why? Because their teeth dont really wear down.
This convinced me to get partial dentures for my grandma. Thanks. ;)
But dentures are not worn while people sleep, so isn't that a significant period of time for some collapse to occur? Or is the daily wearing of them enough to prevent collapse? My dad has had insane health issues that coincided with losing all his teeth. He wears dentures but still has major issues and spinal collapse (terrible osteoporosis due to terrible gut issues and consequent malabsorption) but I wonder if wearing a mouth guard at night without dentures could help?
if you dont wear the dentures to sleep and dont wear a mouthguard... then yes perhaps collapse will occur.
I think it depends on whether the dentures also lock a single occlusion. If they dont.. then perhaps just wearing dentures during the day is enough to keep your structure where it is.
And yes i think wearing a mouthguard at night when he's not wearing his dentures will help.
I'd also look into how the dentures fit together and see if perhaps they can be modified to instead be on a flat contact.
Really good research that also forms the basis of some of the things I am saying here: https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-022-03190-5
Some decent information, some inaccurate information. If people have ground down their teeth, it is because they have a small airway, maxillary deficiency, or the mandible is up and back.