Personalizing complete dentures!! A myth or reality?

Abstract

Complete edentulousness is a physical disability as detailed by the “World Health Organization”. The ubiquity of tooth loss in the Indian populace is 91.2% in the above 65 years, age group. Edentulous patients agonize from compromised function, appearance, and a decreased quality of life. Thus, making a denture can be functional and comfortable, however, it can be repulsive in the eyes of the wearer. Therefore, the characterization of complete dentures has become an emerging trend in prosthodontics to achieve superior aesthetics in edentulous patients. Several methods have been advocated in an attempt to customize the artificial teeth and dentures bases according to the patients’ needs. Tinting the denture bases to reproduce the color and shade of the natural oral tissues is being commonly done in dental laboratories. This paper presentation features a method of matching the shade of the gingiva to as near as normal using pigments/stains and incorporating the same shade using the usual staining methods. This method can help to enhance the aesthetics of the complete denture wearer successfully.