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Japanese dentures covered by insurance are not even used overseas
Currently dentures that are covered by Japanese health insurance use metallic springs called clasps. The clasps clip onto the teeth but they do not do so through adhesion.
Because of this, when the dentures move, the teeth move with them, which eventually leads to more teeth coming loose and falling out. Since the teeth are supported by springs, the dentures are constantly moving around in the mouth.
When we dentists extract teeth, we do so by wiggling the problem tooth side to side. This is the exact same movement that the clasps of these dentures causes to the teeth they are latched onto.
^Partial dentures covered by insurance. The metal clasps place a burden on the teeth, which can be seen easily in this image.
In Germany, outdated denture technology that makes use of clasps has already been purged from dental university classes due to the damage they can do to teeth.
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