Denture Relines: How to Fix Loose Dentures
Are your dentures slipping, clicking, or causing sore spots? Learn how a professional hard or soft reline can restore your comfortable fit in just a few hours.
What is the difference between a hard reline and a soft reline?
The main difference is that a hard denture reline uses rigid acrylic to permanently reshape the denture base for long-term stability, whereas a soft denture reline utilizes a flexible, medical-grade silicone cushion for patients with extremely sensitive gums. Hard relines typically last years, while soft relines require replacement every few months.
Why Do Dentures Lose Their Fit?
When you lose your natural teeth, the jawbone no longer receives the chewing stimulation it needs to maintain its volume. Consequently, the bone and overlying gums naturally shrink (resorb) over time.
While your jaw structure is constantly changing, your rigid denture remains exactly the same size. This mismatch causes gaps to form, resulting in slipping, clicking, reduced chewing power, and friction that leads to painful sore spots. A denture reline toronto fills these gaps by adding a new layer of material to the underside of your denture, matching it perfectly to your current gum contours.
Hard Denture Relines
A hard reline is the standard choice for most patients. We remove a small amount of the old plastic from the inside of your denture, take an impression of your gums directly inside the base, and use our laboratory to cure new, medical-grade pink acrylic into place.
- • Material: Rigid, high-density PMMA acrylic
- • Lifespan: Typically lasts 2+ years
- • Strength: Maximum stability and chewing force
Soft Denture Relines
If you have thin, flat jawbone ridges or chronically sensitive gums that easily develop sore spots, a soft reline is highly recommended. We line the fitting surface with a rubbery, medical-grade silicone material that acts as a shock absorber.
- • Material: Flexible, porous medical silicone
- • Lifespan: Requires replacement every 3 to 6 months
- • Comfort: Maximum cushioning for tender ridges
Same-Day Service: Finished in a Few Hours
Most dental clinics have to ship your dentures to an external laboratory, leaving you without your teeth for days. At Dentures Direct, we eliminate this delay. With our on-site dental laboratory in North York, we perform hard and soft relines on-site.
Simply drop your dentures off at our clinic in the morning, and they will be professionally reshaped, polished, and ready to wear in just a few hours. We serve patients across **Toronto**, **Mississauga**, **Scarborough**, and **Etobicoke** with quick, reliable care.
Frequently Asked Questions
At Dentures Direct, we offer same-day denture relines. Because we have our own in-house dental laboratory in North York, the process typically takes about 3 to 4 hours. You can drop off your denture in the morning and pick it up fully relined and polished by lunchtime.
No, using over-the-counter DIY reline kits is highly discouraged. These kits use poor-quality materials that can permanently damage your denture acrylic, alter your bite alignment (causing jaw pain), and harbor harmful bacteria in the porous material.
On average, a traditional denture should be professionally relined every 2 years. Since your jawbone naturally shrinks over time after tooth loss, regular relining is necessary to maintain a secure seal, prevent sore spots, and extend the lifespan of your restoration.
Are Your Gums Sore or is Your Denture Loose?
Schedule a free assessment with Damien Hiorth DD today. We will check the condition of your dentures and perform a high-quality reline in our laboratory to restore your chewing comfort.
Expert Reviewer
Written by Damien John Hiorth DD
Damien is the founder and lead denturist of Dentures Direct. Operating an on-site laboratory in North York, he specializes in same-day hard and soft denture relining to restore stability and bite mechanics for patients throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
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