Osteoporosis & Dentures

"Osteoporosis may be the culprit when post-menopausal women complain that their dentures don't fit properly, Barbara J. Steinburg, a clinical professor of surgery and medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, says.  She continues, "studies show that post-menopausal women with osteoporosis needed new dentures three times more often after age 50 than women without  osteporosis."  

"Bone loss in these women can become so severe that it makes it impossible to create functional dentures for them.  That means they may be unable to chew many kinds of food and could suffer serious nutritional deficiencies."