ready for dentures any advice - Dental Health Message Board

zashel · 11-08-2004, 09:11 PM

Well it has been a bumpy road I had all the remaining top teeth removed back in july and just when I was to go in to get the impressions done for my top dentures I had 2 of my bottom teeth that the dentist had wanted to wait to pull go bad and then he did not want to do the impressions cause due to my one eye tooth hole not healing good and because of the bottom teeth he wanted me to wait. Then it took my dental insurance 3 weeks to approve the exstraction for the bottom teeth and then had them removed and got 2 dry sockets but still went in and had impressions done and went in last friday for the wax try in for the bite. and this week I will go for try in with teeth and if I like them I will pick them up the following week. I have went since July with no teeth on the top and was a little worried about the sinking in of my mouth Iam only 38 but I have hope after the wax try in cause it made my mouth feel in a more normal possition. But it has been a long and humbling trail of my inner strength . So may only hope now is that they look good and Iam able to eat with them because I so so miss steak and lots of other food you can't eat. If anyone has any possitive advice

to say about getting dentures the first time please give it.

Sandybeech · 11-08-2004, 09:19 PM

Hi, you will do just fine. It has been a long road indeed. Think positive thoughts and know that you will undergo many ups and downs before all settles in. Your mouth will feel funny because it has been allowed to close too far and your tongue has spread out to fill in the space left by your teeth, now it will have to share with the dentures.
Getting dentures at any age is both physically and emotionally traumatic, having to go so long without teeth must have added tremendously to the strees. I am sure that your new teeth will be wonderful.
Feel free to post any questions you might have. I am 39 and have had my dentures for a little over 4 years.

zashel · 11-09-2004, 10:15 PM

thanks for the words of support. It has been a long road and still have to have a bridge done on the bottom but even though I really miss my teeth I know i had no other option due to having short roots on the 4 front teeth that were less than a 1/4in long (its sad that my parents paid all that money for my braces to end up that the braces were the cause of me losing my teeth) it has made me think twice about braces for my daughter. but the past is the past and Iam only thinking now how hard it will be to get use to the denture and how to get my speech as good as possible due to I work on the phone all day. but Iam so excited to look in the mirror and see teeth smiling back at me.