Advice on dentures?!

Advice on dentures?

Hi. I am 33 and have really bad teeth. I had calcium deficiancies with all 4 of my children and then lost my 7 month old son to pneumonia and went through a few years of total neglect on my teeth due to severe depression from losing my baby which I was under a doctors care for. Went to Afdent today and I go in July 2nd to have ALL 24 teeth pulled and the bone palette on top filed down some. I am getting immediate dentures top and bottom. I am scared and wondering what to expect and how it is to cope. Will eating and talking make me look like a fool? Do they fall out easy? And I have never really seen anyone with full dentures. Can you tell when their the top of the line dentures? Or do they really look real? Hopefully this brings my self esteem back cause I honestly haven't smiled in over 8 years, not once. Any advice would be great. Thanks so much :)

3 weeks ago
That makes me feel so much better...thanks so much for the advice and kind words. Now I just can't wait until the 2nd lol I think it's going to be like a beginning of a whole new world for me. I will actually be able to smile at my boys and their friends when they play sports or school activities. Just to smile period seems like heaven, that is if I remember how.

You really need to put all of this into perspective. Right now your real teeth are not healthy and they are holding you back from enjoying life and probably they are affecting your overall health. Having them removed and replaced with decent dentures will put you on the road to better health and well being.
The decision to get dentures should not be taken lightly and you have to expect there will be many adjustments- both physical and emotional. Yes, you will be losing a significant body part and you will be learning to use a prosthesis to replace that part. People close to you will notice the difference but they will not judge you poorly because of it. People who do not know will probably not know any different.
Dentures take time to get used to. Partly because the removal of your teeth is traumatic- it is surgery and surgery requires time to heal. The dentures will feel very foreign and very bulky at first but with time you will overcome those issues.
You will need time to re-learn all the things you normally do with your mouth - talking, eating, smiling, laughing, kissing, drinking. It won't happen over night but suddenly things will be right again. Be prepared to spend a lot of time at the dentist to get things just right and to make sure you are not in pain.
Take it a day at a time.

Sandy

feel free to contact me off the board if you want- I have had my dentures for almost 7 years.