A clicking or clattering denture can make conversation feel like a performance. Here’s why it can happen, and what the dentist looks at when you bring it to our McPhillips Street clinic.
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You might hear it on hard consonants, feel the upper plate drop slightly as you laugh, or notice the lower one rising when you open wide. Most people find it more embarrassing than painful, which is exactly why they put off raising it.
A noisy denture is information. Early on, it may simply reflect a tongue and lips still learning the new shapes. Later, it can point to changes in the tissues, wear or the bite. The dentist can tell which by looking at you and the appliance together.
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Pay attention to which words, movements or meals bring on the sound.
A click in the first weeks often means something different from one that appears years later.
Movement can have several causes, and an assessment is how the right one is found.
Retention works differently for a full denture and a partial one, so the reasons each might shift or click are not identical.
This appliance depends on the tissues and jaw shape under it. As those tissues change, contact can loosen and the denture may begin to move during speech.
A partial is held partly by your remaining teeth and tissues. Noise may come from how it seats against those teeth, or from a change in the teeth themselves.
Clicking alone doesn’t identify the cause. The dentist assesses the appliance, your tissues and your bite before suggesting anything.
Sometimes adjustment or relining is enough, and sometimes a new denture is recommended. When one is made, more than one appointment is normally needed.
Request your visitThe dentist examines your tissues, remaining teeth and jaw relationship, and listens to how the current denture behaves while you talk.
A fresh copy of your gums and teeth is made by impression or scan, so the new appliance matches the mouth you have today, along with notes on how you close.
With the trial arrangement in place, you can say a few test phrases so tooth position and speech are checked alongside your smile and bite.
On delivery, the dentist tests whether it stays put when you talk, where it presses and how it works, then sets up follow-up for the adjustment period.
A vague report of clicking is harder to work with than a specific one. Listening for the sound over several conversations turns it into something the dentist can test.
Wear your denture to the appointment rather than bringing it in a case, so the dentist can see and hear how it behaves in your mouth.
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While you wait for an assessment, a few gentle habits can make conversation feel less fraught. They don’t fix fit, but they give your mouth useful practice.
Reading a page aloud each day helps your tongue adjust to the denture’s contours and shows you which sounds still catch.
Speaking a little more slowly while you adapt can reduce how often a new denture shifts mid-sentence.
A denture that moves can also rub. Sore spots are meant to be adjusted by the dentist, not tolerated.
Keeping it quiet
Jaw and gum tissues keep changing after teeth are lost. A denture that sits silently now may start to move again one day, and that’s a cue for review.
Brush the denture with a suitable brush and cleanser, and clean your gums, tongue and any remaining teeth so nothing interferes with how it sits.
Gums under a denture benefit from regular time uncovered, and most wearers are told to take it out for a stretch each day on a schedule set by the dentist.
New movement, trapped food or sore spots can mean the fit has changed. An assessment decides whether adjustment, reline or replacement makes sense.
If your denture breaks or suddenly causes pain, call the clinic rather than waiting.
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Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)St. Vital is an area in Winnipeg, and residents who want a clicking or loose denture looked at are seen at Winnipeg North Dental, Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street.
Describe the noise in your request or on the phone. The clinic follows up to confirm when you’ll be seen.
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Ask our teamEarly on, the tongue and lips may still be adapting. Later, tissue changes, wear, a shifted bite or damage can affect how well it stays in place. An assessment identifies the cause.
Not necessarily. Depending on what the dentist finds, an adjustment or reline may be enough, or a replacement may be suggested.
The two arches are shaped differently and move differently, and the tongue sits right beside the lower one, so retention is rarely equal. Mention which one clicks.
Needing more and more to stop movement is worth mentioning to the dentist, since it may mean the fit has changed.
Speech often feels different while you adapt, and some sounds take practice. Tell the dentist at your follow-up if movement continues.
Call (204) 338-3003 or fill in the request form, mentioning the clicking. You’ll be seen at our McPhillips Street clinic in Winnipeg once the clinic confirms a time.
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St. Vital residents can send a request for a denture appointment in Winnipeg, and the clinic will reply to arrange it.
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