Anesthesia and dentures?!
Question:
Anesthesia and dentures?
Why someone who has denture and needs a surgery with anesthesia has to remove his denture?
Answers:
a precaution mostly.
As was already said, if a general anesthetic is planned, most (but not all) anesthesia providers prefer dentures removed. It is generally easier to intubate a patient (put a breathing tube in) without the dentures in. Also, they can (infrequently, though) be damaged at the time of intubation. And they are often loosened with the manipulation involved with securing a patient's airway, so most prefer their removal.
That said, if sedation without intubation is planned, most will let the patient keep their teeth in.
All in all, it is merely another thing we do to try to make everything go as safely and smoothly as possible - why take a chance (even if it very remote) of something bad happening if you don't have to?
The best thing to do is ask the anesthesiologist when you talk to them before the surgery - since they are the ones taking care of you at that particular point and time, they will tell you what they prefer you to do.