{"id":696,"date":"2025-01-27T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:25:39","slug":"how-long-will-it-take-to-get-dentures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/how-long-will-it-take-to-get-dentures\/","title":{"rendered":"From Beginning to End, How Long Will It Take to Get Dentures?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Living with missing teeth can have dire consequences on your daily life, impacting the types of food you can eat, your confidence, and even your mental health and wellbeing. Fortunately, tooth replacement treatments like dentures<\/a> are available to help you rebuild your smile in its entirety. If you\u2019re looking forward to starting your smile restoration journey, you\u2019re probably wondering how long you\u2019ll need to wait before you can start enjoying a full set of teeth again, or what you can expect along the way. Read below to walk through a step-by-step timeline of what you can expect leading up to your whole and healthy new smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Extractions & Healing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This part of the process may or may not apply to your situation. If it does, you can count on several additional weeks being added onto your treatment timeline. For many patients, before they can receive full or partial dentures, it\u2019s important that their supportive teeth and gums are healthy. In some cases, this could look like extracting severely damaged or decayed teeth, and in others, it could mean receiving gum disease treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because each of these processes require recovery time, it\u2019s likely that your denture process will be extended by up to six weeks. In some cases, patients may be eligible for immediate dentures that they can wear as their gums are healing from tooth extractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking Impressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The next step of the denture process is having impressions taken of your gums and any existing teeth to model your denture after. This will be sent to your dentist\u2019s laboratory that they work with. By choosing a dentist who captures digital impressions<\/a> instead of putty ones, the process may be a little faster because they won\u2019t have to mail your impressions to the lab; instead, they\u2019ll send them digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the laboratory gets your impressions, a skilled lab technician will begin crafting the prosthetic. It will go through several phases until they create a trial denture made from acrylic. From the moment they receive your impression to whenever they craft your trial denture, it can take between six and eight weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trying on a Trial Denture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In some cases, the dental laboratory may send the trial denture back to the dentist to make sure it fits your mouth perfectly. This will allow for a fully functional, more comfortable, and an easy-to-use prosthetic. Your dentist will call you back into the office and have you try on your denture to double-check the fit and appearance of it. They\u2019ll then send it back to the laboratory with instructions on any changes or adjustments that need to be made. Pending any changes, this step can add a few additional weeks onto the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting Your Permanent Dentures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After your dentist\u2019s laboratory has completed their finishing touches, they\u2019ll send it back to your dentist for a final fit test! At your dentist\u2019s office, you\u2019ll be able to try them on, learn how to clean and maintain them, and receive additional instructions on how to use them. You\u2019ll also have a chance to ask any questions you may have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the process of getting dentures can take between six weeks and three months. Of course, this estimate depends on a number of factors that can differ drastically from patient-to-patient, like whether any adjustments need to be made and if you need to have teeth extracted. Your dentist will discuss all of these details with you during your consultation, allowing you to get a more accurate idea of how long your journey will take to a complete smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Rafiq Hirji has over a decade of experience in the dental field and has helped restore hundreds of patients\u2019 smiles with tried and trusted dentures. He even offers implant dentures for his patients who are looking for a more stable and reliable method of tooth replacement. To learn more about this process and schedule a consultation, visit Daily Smiles MacArthur Dental & Orthodontics\u2019 website<\/a> or call 972-546-4114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living with missing teeth can have dire consequences on your daily life, impacting the types of food you can eat, your confidence, and even your mental health and wellbeing. Fortunately, tooth replacement treatments like dentures are available to help you rebuild your smile in its entirety. If you\u2019re looking forward to starting your smile restoration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailysmilesmacarthur.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}