{"id":204,"date":"2022-09-05T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avenidental.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:13:49","slug":"dentures-in-plymouth-and-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avenidental.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/05\/dentures-in-plymouth-and-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dentures and Nutrition: What You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Millions of people rely on their traditional dentures in Plymouth<\/a> to help them eat a variety of foods and enjoy a confident smile. While these prosthetics are certainly useful in many ways, they do have their drawbacks. In fact, research suggests that wearing them may negatively affect your ability to take in adequate nutrition. This blog post explores why that is the case and how dental implants may be able to address the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Nutrition Before and After Dentures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Dentistry<\/a> analyzed data from 10,000 patients with the aim of understanding the impact that dentures can have on nutrition. The researchers compared patients\u2019 nutritional markers two years before they got dentures to those same markers two years after the patients started using prosthetic teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers discovered a significant decline in nutritional markers after the patients got dentures. Although the majority of of the data points were still considered to be within the normal range, it is reasonable to assume that with extended denture wear, those markers could continue to go down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Do Dentures Affect Nutrition?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dentures may affect nutrition in a couple of ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n