Dentures can have a huge impact on your appearance. Poorly fitted dentures or cheap dentures can dramatically change your appearance for the worse, but at Rice Dentistry in Irvine, California, properly designed dentures, like FOY Dentures®, can do just the opposite: giving you the best smile of your life, especially when they’re supported by dental implants.

Are you wondering, “How will I look with dentures?” It can really go one of two ways. If you don’t get dentures supported by dental implants or dentures without a proper fit, you can expect the following changes to happen to your appearance.

Sagging Face

One of the most common complaints people have about their appearance with dentures is that they have a sagging face. This may be evidenced by hanging jowls, turkey neck, or deep facial folds and wrinkles.

This is because most dentures don’t fully replace the amount of volume lost in the lower face because of tooth loss and bone resorption. That means that you have the same amount of tissue, including fat, skin, and muscles, but less support for them.

Sunken Lips

Some of the “excess” tissue won’t hang down off your face. It will fold in around the mouth, causing your lips and cheeks to roll inward. This creates a hollow, sunken appearance around your mouth. You might not even be able to properly close your lips and may experience leakage at the corners, which can cause skin irritation and even infections.

Witch’s Chin

The shape of your chin depends on muscles, fat, and bone in the chin area. When you’re wearing dentures, your jawbone can lose volume, including in the chin area. This causes the muscle attachments to change, causing the muscles and the fat they support to move downward, creating a sagging chin that is often described as witch’s chin.”

Puffy Lips and Cheeks

Dentures need to properly support your lips and cheeks, but if your dentures are too big, they can actually push your dentures outward, resulting in lips and cheeks that are too puffy. At Rice Dentistry in Irvine, we ensure that properly fitted dentures can avoid this, though for some people, the denture flanges that go around the gums can lead to a puffy appearance. Implant dentures can avoid this because they don’t need to have a flange that goes around the gums.

Dentures can also cause puffy lips and cheeks if they’re too short, causing the lips and cheeks to fold, similar to what happens in sunken lips, only they’re folding outward rather than in.

Crooked Jaw

Properly fitted dentures retain the alignment of your natural teeth so that your jaw is in its proper place. Poorly fitted dentures can make your jaw tilt to one side or the other. This may not be obvious at first–it may become more so as your dentures wear down and the tilt increases.

Rejuvenated Appearance with Dentures in Irvine, CA

You don’t have to look old just because you have dentures. Even when you have a denture flange, your dentures might not fit or look as good as possible. Often, patients have dentures that are too big for their mouths, which can give them a denture face appearance.

Instead of falling victim to denture face, rejuvenate your youthful appearance with FOY dentures or implant-supported dentures. We will ensure your dentures fit properly and provide you with the best appearance possible. You don’t have to worry about getting dentures that are too big or look cheap. You can have a relatively youthful appearance if your dentures are properly fitted.

Don’t live with dentures that make you look old or unattractive. Call (949) 551-5902 or use our online contact form to schedule an appointment with a cosmetic dentist at Rice Dentistry in Irvine, California, to learn how good you can look with dentures.