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

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   Hewlett notes that you shouldn't wear your removable dentures at night while you're sleeping because you need to allow your gum tissue to recover and "spring back" from having dentures in all day ...

3. Complete dentures - Wikipedia

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   Denture-wearing can bring some masticatory function back to normal. It cannot, however, fully compensate for the efficiency of the natural dentition because (1) dentures are not fixed in place like teeth are and so have to be actively controlled by the muscles and (2) biting forces are greatly reduced (about one-sixth of the natural dentition ...

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. 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.

6. Toothlessness - Wikipedia

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   Resorption is exacerbated by pressure on the bone; thus, long-term complete denture wearers will experience more drastic reductions to their ridges than non-denture wearers. Those individuals who do wear dentures can decrease the amount of bone loss by retaining some tooth roots in the form of overdenture abutments or have implants placed. Note ...

7. Hugh Hefner revealed he once went under the knife: 'There’s ...

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   Hugh Hefner was the picture of perfect health before his passing at the age of 91 -- and he ascribed that to his diet, genes and his sexually active lifestyle.