The majority of dental professionals create their own dentures.

The vast majority of dentists will not refer a person who needs dentures fitting to a specialist, it has been claimed.

Research carried out by the Wealthy Dentist revealed 94 per cent of dentists will offer in-house denture treatments, meaning they will take measurements, create the dentures and fit them all without the help of a specialist prosthodontist.

An unnamed dental professional told the publication: “Having made many thousands of dentures over the years, with the facility of an in-house dental lab with a certified technician at my side, I’ve never referred a denture patient to a prosthodontist.”

Elsewhere, Sreenivas Koka, chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Dental Specialties, recently said Brits living with missing teeth or a bridge might like to consider dental implants as a permanent solution to their problem.

She claimed fixing a dental implant is a very straightforward procedure and should provide a lasting replacement for a missing tooth.