05/19/2026
Dentures vs All on X / Teeth in a Day.
Dentures: covers your entire palate, must be removed, can illicit a gag reflex and change your taste, makes your upper jaw bone shrink, upper dentures tend to stay in better than lower dentures because of the full palatal coverage, cannot bite into harder foods like apples, might need denture glue as time goes on
All on X / Teeth in a Day: Fixed so you donβt have to remove them but the doctor can remove them when necessary, much thinner with no full palatal coverage, can function much more normally in terms of speech and eating, no denture glue needed
This patient you see had an upper denture for years and did not tolerate it. She had been told by other offices that she could not have implants and then saw Dr. Nguyen for a second opinion. With zygomatic and pterygoid implants, we were able to get the patient into the same-day temporary bridges you see here. No more dentures!