Welcome to Moore Denture Clinic Clinical Laboratory

The mouth is a very dynamic environment. After you lose your natural teeth, the gums respond by slowly resorbing (shrinking) a little every year for the rest of your life. When you had your dentures made the dentures were closely adapted to your gums. After 2-3 years (or one year after teeth are extracted) your dentures will need a new lining placed to reestablish an accurate fit. We have three options for relining dentures:

  1.  Heat Cured Reline: We schedule you for a morning appointment, we take an impression with your denture in the mouth, we verify that the impression is good and then invest the denture/s in special flasks and heat cure new permanent material to bond to the denture. You will pick up your denture/s later in the afternoon that day. 

Pros:

• Heat cured acrylic is stronger
• Has a better bond with the denture
• Has less discoloration over time

Cons:

• Takes more time to process
• More expensive 

2. Cold Cured Reline: We schedule you for a 2-2.5 hour appointment. We take an impression with your dentures in the mouth, verify the impression accuracy,  then process the relines to the permanent material on a special reline jig with a material that cures under pressure.

Pros:

• Processing time is faster
• You do not have to wait as long to get your teeth back
• Less expensive 

Cons:

• Material is more porous 
• Has some discoloration over time
• Not as strong

3. Direct reline: We schedule you for an hour appointment and can place the permanent material in the denture, place the denture in the mouth and allow the material to set, then we remove the denture, trim and polish and send you on your way!

Pros:

• Fastest method 
• Least expensive 

Cons:

• Difficult to manage how the material flows
• does not bond as well as other methods
• Prone to discoloration over time
• More difficult to correct if the material flows poorly
• Denture may lock in the mouth if there are hard tissue surfaces with undercuts
• Should only be used in some circumstances 

If your denture has a crack, or has completely broken, even in multiple places, we can repair it on site while you wait! 

Types of denture repairs:

1. Simple Repair - the denture or denture tooth broke off and we are able to place the parts together and bond them back with new acrylic.
2. Complex Repair - if you have lost a natural tooth and need a denture tooth added, or if we need to have metal added around a tooth, we will need to take an impression and create dental models to finish the repair. 

When should you come in for a repair?

• if 1 or more teeth have been broken or chipped
• If your denture has cracked, but is not broken through
• Denture is broken in 1 or more pieces 
• A metal clasp has broken off your partial

Special Note:

• After a denture breaks and is repaired, it is no longer one unit, but is being held together by the new repair material. Ask one of our denturists about adding a metal strengthener to your denture so that you can rest at ease that your denture is stronger than before!