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| Which type of partial would you prefer to wear? |
 A conventionally designed partial that has unsightly hooks which show when you talk or smile and will damage your teeth when you eat OR |  A designed partial that protects your teeth while showing little or no metal. Your function and smile are restored with confidence. |
| We use what we believe is the best system in the world today for making our partial dentures. It is known as the Equipoise System and has many benefits. The animations below show the difference in design: |
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| Equipoise System |
The Equipoise system has four main benefits for patients. - Function: we believe the most important criteria for a successful removable denture is function. If a partial denture does not function properly, it cannot be a success. The appliance will either be unstable, lack proper retention, or both. To eliminate these problems, we use Class II lever physics based on the "balance of force principles of design". This technique means that your dentures are more stable and they move in a more balanced way allowing you to eat better.
- Comfort: in order for a partial to be comfortable, it must not be oversized or over contoured. Our impression techniques ensure our denture bases and overall contour are designed so as to give the patient utmost comfort during chewing and at rest.
- Aesthetics: The number one reason patients object to removable partial dentures is unsightly clasps. The Class II lever system eliminates the need for buccal clasping and unsightly clasps.
- Built in permanence: our partial dentures have built in permanence to allow for the possible eventual loss of teeth. This means that if you lose more teeth, we can simply add more without needing to remake the whole denture.
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| Greatly Improved Fit | Increased Lower Face Height |
| We build up our impressions in tiny layers which means all the oral and facial muscles and individual contours of your mouth show up in them (unlike the traditional method). We use a '2 Stage' Alginate impression material which is a far more accurate impression technique and is similar to that used for crown and bridgework. This ensures the final fit of the denture is much more accurate and means that you have far less denture movement during eating and speaking. The other benefit to you is that you will be able to use much less fixative or none at all. | If you wear dentures you may have found that your face has collapsed and your lips and cheeks are not properly built out. We use a device which allows us to adjust the height of your dentures in tiny increments to achieve the best aesthetic result for you. The final outcome is that your face gets built up fully again. |
| An Accurate Bite | Precision Adjustments |
| Unlike most other dentists, we use special equipment (called an intra-oral gothic arch tracing and a facebow record) to align your dentures 100% to your jaw joint. We then trial them on an articulator outside your mouth to ensure the bite is totally correct. This allows the teeth to slide over each other correctly which greatly improves your chewing of food and means your dentures move a lot less. | We have a special system for making fine adjustments without compromising the look or fit of the dentures. This is done outside the patient's mouth using special equipment and gives a much more accurate result. We automatically book further adjustment appointments until they are not needed. This avoids any possible embarrassment of a patient having to ring up for further adjustments. |
| Much Improved Appearance |
| We use teeth which are made up of several gradations of colour in order to give a much more natural appearance than typical denture teeth. We can mimic your natural pre-denture appearance by setting up the teeth at slight angles to each other if you do not want the symmetrical appearance associated with dentures. By placing the teeth where they should be naturally your face also gets built up again (like a non-surgical facelift) reversing the collapsed facial support often seen with dentures. We spend considerable time with patients moving the teeth in wax until both we and the patient are perfectly happy with the appearance. The benefit to you is that you can smile with confidence again. |
