Oral Care for Elder Patients

Good dental hygiene and oral care habits are important at any age. But as we all grow older, certain health concerns earn our full attention, especially the importance of oral health for senior patients. Whether you have all of your original teeth, some of them, or a full set of dentures, our staff at Riverwalk Dental can help you keep your mouth healthy.

If you’re a senior headed for a checkup, one of our doctors will conduct a thorough history and dental exam. During the oral exam, he or she will check the following: your face and neck, your bite, your jaw, your lymph nodes and salivary glands, your inner cheeks as well as the inside of your oral cavity. It is important for us to check for signs of infection and oral cancer so that if something is wrong, we can catch it at the earliest stage when it is the easiest to treat. If you wear dentures or other appliances, we will also ask about when you wear them as well as if you are experiencing any problem areas in the mouth.

If you have questions or concerns about dental services, please give us a call. Riverwalk Dental is located at 540 6^th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 1K5, Canada. To schedule an appointment, call 1-403-456-4994 or visit riverwalkdental.ca.

Understanding Dentures

We provide full-mouth restorations at Riverwalk Dental, which means we replace all the teeth in a patient’s mouth. While modern dentistry has created means of permanently affixing false teeth (prosthodontics), such as all-on-four implants, there are still many cases in which the patient benefits from dentures.

Dentures are distinguished by being removable, but they still require permanent changes to the patient’s mouth. Partial dentures, which only replace the front teeth, require the reshaping of the teeth on either side of them. Full-mouth dentures require all the remaining teeth in a jaw to be removed. This is often a sticking point for patients, but it’s usually done because the patient does not have the bone support for implants and should not or does not want to receive a bone graft.

As an office which values our patients’ comfort, we regularly adjust our patients’ dentures throughout their lives to ensure they are comfortable and working properly. If cared for properly, dentures can make a big improvement in the life of a person suffering from poor oral health.

Riverwalk Dental is located at 540 6^th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 1K5, Canada. To schedule an appointment, call 1-403-456-4994 or visit RiverwalkDental.Ca.