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The Best Way to Clean Your Dentures
As a Dental Technician for the past 44 years, I have made thousands of dentures and this is what I recommend:
First, look to see if your denture has a soft liner. This will be a soft surface on the denture side that fits against your mouth. If you are not sure, press the surface with you fingernail. If it makes a mark then you likely have a soft liner in you appliance. Second, if you see any silver metal on your denture either clasp or silver palate DO NOT use step 6 below. Doing so will make your soft liner turn hard and any metal will get a tarnished color.
1- Always brush your denture over a sink full of water. The most likely place you will damage your denture is dropping it in the sink while it is being brushed. It takes just a few seconds to fill the sink and you will be glad your did when you drop it.
2-Brush your denture with a denture brush available at any drug store. Never use a standard tooth brush. The bristles in a normal tooth brush are make of nylon and will cut groves in your denture.
3-NEVER brush your denture back and forth like you were scrubbing the kitchen floor, Brush you denture from the top to the biting edge of the tooth like you would natural teeth.
4- Baking soda is an excellent cleaner for your denture. You can also use regular tooth paste is you prefer.
5-Soak your denture in a glass of plain water or you may add a little baking soda to the water to soak overnight.
6-About once a month you may soak your denture in a glass of half water and half Clorox over night This will remove any stains that have attached to your denture. Once a month only, you do not want to bleach the color out of your denture.
It is not necessary to use any commercial cleaner on your denture and many may actually harm your denture. If you have had to avoid step six above do not use commercial cleaners. Most use oxidizing agents the same as a Clorox solution. They will in time damage the soft liner and tarnish any metal on your appliance.
I hope this was helpful.
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