Are dentures that are quickly inserted into the mouth healthy?

Are dentures that are quickly inserted into the mouth healthy?

As a result of the rapidly increasing health tourism in our country, we see that dental prostheses are being attached to the mouth very quickly today. This process has progressed so much that recently, we hear that zirconium teeth, veneer crowns, etc. can be attached to the mouth even on the same day after tooth cutting. So how healthy is this? No matter how much our possibilities increase with the developing technology, we need to wait for gum healing at the end of procedures such as tooth cutting and tooth extraction. Dental prostheses made with impressions taken before soft tissue healing is complete may show incompatibilities with the fully healed state of the soft tissue in the future and the crown may cause openings in the borders of the tooth. Over time, this can lead to microbial leakage, sensitivity and tooth decay. For a more protective and permanent treatment, we need to wait for sufficient soft tissue healing. In addition, in order to make sure that dental crowns such as zirconium, porcelain, etc. are compatible with the tissue and have smooth borders, the metal substructure and dentin rehearsal processes should be completed without skipping the metal substructure and dentin rehearsal processes, and dental prostheses should be finished by checking them at every step. In this way, we make sure that both the substructure metal and the porcelain on top cover the cut tooth borders completely. In addition to all this clinical process, I would like to talk a little bit about the laboratory process. Teeth such as porcelain and zirconium are made by processing and baking layer by layer in the laboratory environment. The substructure metals and superstructure porcelains of these materials have a certain firing, cooling and layer-by-layer processing process. For this reason, a certain waiting period is required to make strong and healthy teeth in the laboratory environment. Considering the necessary in-mouth rehearsals and laboratory processes, we need to understand that a prosthesis made quickly cannot be a very healthy prosthesis. Although our foreign patients coming from abroad and our working local patients want to solve their missing teeth or aesthetic dental problems in the fastest way, they should give the necessary time to specialist dentists who are trying to do their job delicately for healthy and long treatments. Especially our foreign patients coming from abroad for health tourism purposes, while benefiting from the advantages of our country’s highly economical and healthy treatment; They should consciously allocate enough time for their treatment in order to receive the most ideal treatment.

Dr. Dt. Faylim Tansu Uzel
Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery, DDS, PhD