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2. A comprehensive guide to dentures and other false teeth ... - AOL

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   Partial plates will often have a metal base that holds on to the area where the missing teeth go, Hewlett explains. The rest of the framework sits against the patient's teeth and clips in place ...

3. Removable partial denture - Wikipedia

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   A removable partial denture (RPD) is a denture for a partially edentulous patient who desires to have replacement teeth for functional or aesthetic reasons and who cannot have a bridge (a fixed partial denture) for any reason, such as a lack of required teeth to serve as support for a bridge (i.e. distal abutments) or financial limitations.

4. Dentures - Wikipedia

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   Dentures can help people via: Mastication: chewing ability is improved by the replacement of edentulous (lacking teeth) areas with denture teeth.; Aesthetics: the presence of teeth gives a natural appearance to the face, and wearing a denture to replace missing teeth provides support for the lips and cheeks and corrects the collapsed appearance that results from the loss of teeth.

5. Fixed prosthodontics - Wikipedia

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   The teeth used to support the bridge are called abutments. A bridge may also refer to a single-piece multiple-unit fixed partial denture (numerous single-unit crowns either cast or fused together). The part of the bridge which replaces a missing tooth and attaches to the abutments is known as a "pontic".

6. Toothlessness - Wikipedia

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   Dentures: False teeth are mounted onto an acrylic base. These may be partial (to replace some missing teeth) or complete (where all the natural teeth are missing). [8] Dentures may be removable, or fixed in the mouth by dental implants. Advantages: This is the least expensive option for the replacement of teeth.

7. Dental prosthesis - Wikipedia

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   A dental prosthesis is an intraoral (inside the mouth) prosthesis used to restore (reconstruct) intraoral defects such as missing teeth, missing parts of teeth, and missing soft or hard structures of the jaw and palate. [1] Prosthodontics is the dental specialty that focuses on dental prostheses.