YouTube Opens the Door for Young Denture Wearers

There’s a stigma young denture wearers face: that dentures are only for the elderly. But the power of social media is changing all that.

Thanks to the numerous vloggers—or video bloggers—sharing their denture stories on YouTube, dentures for millennials have come out of the closet. Dental consumers now have access to a wealth of knowledge about the prostheses and are becoming well-educated patients before they’ve even stepped inside a dental office. 

Probably the most well-known denture vlogger is Kristi Lind—known as “Kalinjax” by her 15,000-plus YouTube subscribers—who has been sharing her denture journey since 2010. Lind covers a variety of topics on her YouTube channel like denture cost, implants, temporaries vs. permanent dentures, product reviews and more. Her most recent series, Confident Denture Wearers, talks about self-assurance and how...