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Why It Is Never a Good Idea to Sleep with Your Dentures On
Mabel Hicks
If you have multiple missing teeth and are looking for a cost-efficient alternative to replacing them, then dentures make a good option for you. Dentures can restore your chewing capacity, and they help in preventing any speech impediments that may come about due to the missing teeth. Since these make an excellent substitute for your real teeth, then that means that you can sleep with dentures occasionally, right? Wrong. Dentists recommend taking these teeth replacements out when you go to bed so that you are not risking your health. Below are the reasons why it is never a good idea to sleep with your dentures on.
Your gums can develop severe soreness
Although dentures do make a convenient replacement for missing teeth, these devices can be quite hard on your gums as well as your jawbone. Dentures are not as soft as your gums so the hard materials can exert pressure on your gums, particularly when eating and talking. After a long day of having your dentures in place, your gums will typically feel sore by the evening.
If you do not take your dentures out, there is an increased likelihood of your gums becoming inflamed. When the gums begin swollen and sensitive, it becomes harder for you to wear the dentures during the day too as you will feel pain whenever there is any pressure exerted on them.
You increase your susceptibility to pneumonia
Some people may be under the assumption that pneumonia is caused by exposure to cold. In truth, there are various reasons why you could develop this disease, one of them is wearing your dentures while sleeping. To begin with, when you have your dentures on all day and night, you are creating the ideal environment for bacteria to thrive. As the bacteria grow in the picket between your dentures and your gums, you are likely to inhale it, and it makes its way directly to your lungs. If this goes on unhampered, you could end up contracting pneumonia.
The second reason why you may develop pneumonia when you wear your dentures overnight is that these devices will impede your ability to swallow saliva sufficiently while you sleep. As a result, there is an increase of saliva in your mouth, which could end up being inhaled into your chest. The higher the moisture content in your lings, the higher the likelihood of chest infections, which could subsequently lead to the development of pneumonia.
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