Toothless again - Dental Health Message Board

Hope4All · 04-27-2006, 12:14 PM

Hi Everyone, I just went to have my upper denture "fixed". Well they took another impression and they are keeping my upper denture!!!! I go in on the 3rd to have wax impression and then they will make my new immediate.

I was hoping when they made the new one (since they messed it up in the first place)that I would get to keep the screwed up one until the new one was made.

Its been over a month now, and I was eating almost everything (except steak) now I have no upper to eat with. Luckily I got to keep my bottom partial. Now they did hack off half of it (dont ask).

Am I back to eating mashed potatos again ???? I wanted them fixed but I find this is ridiculous and I should have been able to keep the old ones.

Is this normal procedure?

Thanks
Hope

blueheartlady · 04-27-2006, 12:18 PM

Hope,
What reason did they give you for keeping them?

Jackie

Hope4All · 04-27-2006, 12:31 PM

Hi jackie,

Uggh, he didn't really give me a reason! He used my upper to make the impression and then he said it would be "destroyed" in the making of the new denture! I don't understand why they just couldn't do the impression without using my upper

I was finally getting use to eating again, now I'm lost and have no clue as to what I'm going to eat!

Hope

blueheartlady · 04-27-2006, 12:44 PM

I would have thought he could have made an impression just like in the beginning - as if you'd never had one made!! I know you've got to be feeling very frustrated about the whole ordeal. I sure would be! This is turning back time, isn't it? I think he would have had to physically pry them away from me!! He would have had a fight on his hands!! I am sooo sorry that you are having to go through all of this. So, you go back on the 3rd to do the impression to make the new plate? Why didn't they do that today? How long is it going to take to get it after the impressions are made?

Jackie

Hope4All · 04-27-2006, 01:39 PM

No, he did the impression AND wax bite together TODAY!!! He used my Immediate Upper denture to make the impression. He put that goop in my upper denture and had me bite down. It was with new stuff this time and I was gagging and had trouble breathing!!! It was worse than the first time

On the 3rd he is going to give me a wax try in of my new upper to make sure they have my front teeth and bite right. Then after the 3rd they will start making my new immediate.

My husband is soooo upset with this place, he thinks they are some fly by night place. They do so many dentures that they don't take the time to get them right the first time.

I went grocery shopping yesterday and bought MANY of my favorite foods (because I was doing so well with my teeth) now I cannot eat any of it.

I'm becoming depressed, I know I WONT go out in public with my teeth out, and luckily my husband loves me and not my teeth. He and the kids have seen me without them.

Thanks for all of your support, I just want to lay down and cry.

Hope