My Personal Recommedation Are you scared to get dentures?? Are you too young? Afraid folks will notice?
Well put your fear on pause for a sec and listen to my story!
Everyday I literally get dozens and dozens of emails from people just like you suffering from serious pain and despairing about what to do. Money is just too tight and somehow our teeth sadly become a "luxury." After being in the same boat, I managed to climb out. It was wasn't the way I wanted to deal with my teeth, but I did it and believe me when I say I wish I had done it years ago!
If you're anything like me, dentures is a LAST resort. But I had no other options. My teeth were simply falling out of my head. After the exam it was determined that they had to go. They had become so brittle over the years that if I had chosen to get root canals, crowns, bonding, etc... they would only fall apart again within the next 5 to 10 years. I finally broke down and decided that it was the best course to take. I felt like I was on my way to pick out my coffin.
My dentist was very kind and extremely sympathetic. He could see by the tears in my eyes, that this was not what I wanted. There just were no other options. He did inform me that after about 6 months or so after I was healed, AND if I could afford it, that I still had a lot of bone and he could place implants for me IF that's what I really wanted. Then he patted me on the head and tried to convince me I wasn't going to want implants after this. Even if I wanted implants instead of dentures, my teeth would STILL have to come out and I would STILL have the healing time before they could be placed. So I decided I would go for it and maybe a miracle would happen and I could wear the dentures while I was healing and then get my really cool implants! Implants by the way are extremely expensive. Probably about $20k for my mouth. Although you can get a few placed to hold your denture in permanently. That was the BAD news.
Now for the Good news!
Today's dentures are NOT your grandmother's dentures!!! After a few weeks of healing I was overjoyed at the results. I could smile, eat, laugh, kiss, scream, whistle, eat steak and do anything I wanted to do and I looked and felt like ME! The best part is that noone other than my closest relatives know about them. I have thoroughly decided that I don't need implants. I felt so foolish and RELIEVED. If I was photogenic I would post pictures for you (but no, sorry I really don't want anyone I know to know that I have them! lol). I still go back every once in a while and get them re-lined.
IT IS TOTALLY WORTH IT.
Please don't suffer anymore.. find help from the directory or take your next tax refund if you have to and do this! Your face will swell for a few days and you won't look anything like yourself and them one morning you'll wake up, look in the mirror and end up doing cartwheels the rest of the day. I now feel like they are my own teeth and I don't even notice them.
So now that I hopefully have convinced you, let me give you some more advice... DON'T put it off. You need to go have an exam and get the impressions done before you lose any more teeth. It's important so that you actually get your own mouth back! If you can afford nothing more than that, at least get your mouth "photocopied."
If you have any questions about my ordeal or just need advice, please feel free to ask! Email me at kim@getfreedental.com!
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DATE: 2/3/2012 7:47:08 PM ... SCREEN NAME: donnam1 I am a 63 year old woman on disability. I had 2 strokes and I'm a
a diabetic. I haven't been to a dentist in 20 years. I only have 17 teeth
in my mouth . I can't afford the dentist or dentures I need help please.
anything you can use to help me would be greatly appreciated.
I would like to chew food for once and enjoy it. thank you so much
DATE: 1/5/2012 9:35:18 PM ... SCREEN NAME: catch22 I have no job, no insurance, no money, and there aren't any free/cheap clinics within 100 miles of me. I have had many teeth removed before and only have 20 left. I was very sick as a child and the medicine saved me but ruined my teeth. Now they fall apart even when I'm not eating, they are infected, broken, rotting, and they hurt! I can't get a job because of them. What are people like me and the other poster supposed to do? I would get dentures in a heartbeat if I could.
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DATE: 1/4/2012 2:38:26 PM ... SCREEN NAME: teethpoisoningme I been out of work for a year so no tax refund no insurance of any kind mouth is sore can only eat soft foods or shakes. I lost weight don`t smile a lot anymore my mouth is making me sick literally what,where,who. Do I go to desparate and in pain
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DATE: 12/13/2011 9:42:16 PM ... SCREEN NAME: charlie13 I have been losing my teeth like crazy over the last 7 or 8 years and it's the most depressing thing. I work with women in the skin care industry that want me to make them beautiful. I can't even smile or eat food anymore and I feel dentures will make me look not like myself. I'm so thin right now because I don't have any back teeth to chew on. I try to chew with my front teeth, but now a filling I just got last year fell out a week ago. If I lose a front tooth, I will just feel even worse than I do now. I have no credit anymore, owe Western Dental money and my small business of 22 years is barely making it. What do people on little income do when they can't even eat anymore? I'm on Medi-cal right now. They use to have Dental help but the recession took all help away from low income people. I still have my son who is 20 and trying very hard to get his AA at a Junior College with me. He has looked for a job to help us, but there isn't anything out there. If someone knows anyway I can get some teeth to chew on or even get my front tooth fixed please contact me. All of the teeth that have fallen out are still just broken stumps in my mouth and I'm in constant pain. This filling that fell out of my front tooth last week is really painful. It feels like I have a nerve going straight to my head. Where do you get your teeth photocopied? Do they make the dentures look somewhat like your own teeth?