The new denture guidelines – what’s all the fuss about?
Earlier this month, new global guidelines on the best care and maintenance of full dentures were released. These guidelines were developed by the Oral Health Foundation with an independent global expert panel and had an educational grant from GSK. The report looks at all the available evidence and goes into detail about how people with full dentures should look after them.
But why were the new guidelines necessary and what does it all mean? We sat down with Dr Nigel Carter OBE, Chief Executive of the Oral Health Foundation and member of the Global Task Force for Care of Full Dentures. We spoke to Dr Carter to ask him why these new guidelines have been published and what we can all learn from them.
Hello Dr Carter. Thank you for taking the time to speak to us today. Let’s start with the basics – what are dentures?
Thank you very much for having me, I’m delighted to be here.
Dentures are used to replace lost or missing teeth. Quite often you find that p…