Does anyone here have dentures?

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I'm being fitted for a partial denture next week though it won't be fitted for some time yet. I already know that it should be removed for sports, including riding, and at night, but about about groundwork/general handling? If there's anyone here with them what do you do? Thanks. Sorry if it's not a very nice subject or this is in the wrong place! :rolleyes: (Yes am going to ask the dentist as well but I'm panicking already lol xD )
 
Can't answer your question but how come you need dentures at your age, I thought you were a teenager?
 
ycbm said:
Can't answer your question but how come you need dentures at your age, I thought you were a teenager?
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I am, I'm 16, but my mum's horse kicked me in the face so I'm missing a tooth now and need something in the gap else everything else will go squint without the support :)
Permanent implants can only be put in when you've finished growing too; my dentist said the earliest for that will be 18.
(Bloody horses lmao)
 
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That's awful. It's why I went private, so I am insured for the 'best' treatment instead of the NHS functional one. I hope you get an implant later.
 
ycbm said:
That's awful. It's why I went private, so I am insured for the 'best' treatment instead of the NHS functional one. I hope you get an implant later.
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Yes, hopefully I will. My dentist's fighting pretty hard for me to be allowed them; theoretically you can't get them on the NHS at all, but apparently it is possible at certain teaching hospitals, though it will involve a fair amount of travelling. TBH still just grateful it wasn't worse.
Plus, getting all this done private would be thousands, and if it's a matter of choosing between going to uni and getting nice teeth, I'd choose university. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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Chinchilla said:
I am, I'm 16, but my mum's horse kicked me in the face so I'm missing a tooth now and need something in the gap else everything else will go squint without the support :)
Permanent implants can only be put in when you've finished growing too; my dentist said the earliest for that will be 18.
(Bloody horses lmao)
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Couple of years will go quickly. Save your pennies. Hope you get the perfect smile YOU dream of... X
 
I had a denture at 19, got a mouthful of hoof when my horse was pratting about when being turned out. I did allsorts with it in. Only took it out at night. I have another now as I am waiting for an implant. Costly but I want to be able to smile confidently!
 
Don’t have dentures personally but am a dental nurse of over 5 years so hopefully can be of some help.
Absololutely you should be able to wear the denture for all normal activities, the only exception being any sports that may involve direct contact with your face. You most definatly take them out at night time though, which is really important as if you don’t you could get a fungal infection quite easily. Just think of what would happen to your feet if you wore shoes 24/7, same sort of thing.
It will feel like an awful foreign body to start with and you may find eating is tricky at first and you could develop a lisp when talking, you really will have to persevere initially though and the more you use it the better it’ll get. It may also rub and cause ulcers initially so dont be afraid to keep going back to your dentist for adjustments, it’s very very normal and is almost expected to happen. The fit may also not be great, unfortunatly making a well fitting and functioning denture really is an art and the nhs don’t neccesarily use the best (more expensive) technicians to construct it. If it does move something like fixadent is brilliant and will keep it sturdy all day. When you take them out and clean the, just toothpaste and water is fine, there are products that you soak them in at night but they’re unnecessary and can bleach the acrylic making it look lighter.
I can understand them not wanting to do a implant til your fully grown as much as that sucks, but have they ever mentioned doing what’s called a ‘sticky’or ‘Maryland’ bridge to you? (I’m assuming it’s a front tooth youve lost?) It’s a semi permanent option but is fixed in place so you wouldn’t have all this hassle as with a denture. Unfortunately I strongly suspect if your NHS they’re going for the cheaper option to fill the gap. If your only 19 though it seems a bit harsh so I would at least ask the question, privately you’d be looking at £6-800 so understand if that’s not an option!
Hope that’s been of some help, feel free to send me a pm if there’s anything else but also but do ask your dentist as many questions as you need to, write them down beforehand if you think you’ll forget! it willl be a bit of a steep learning curve with a denture but just remember it isn’t for too long :)
 
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Thank you that’s a very sweet thing to say. X. Apart from the horses it’s really the only thing Ive spent this long doing and know anything about, thought my two cents worth might be worth something for a change! X
 
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Hi Chincilla, I had a denture at 16, for my UR2 and UL2, that is the second incisors. I had a temporary plate for a couple of years as they didn't want to do anything more permanent until my mouth had settled after various orthodontic work. It was fine and I never took it out apart from to clean. Nobody ever noticed (although they did show differently under UV light in nightclubs!).

I then had a Maryland bridge which is more permanent as they didn't do implants on the NHS and my dentist didn't feel a normal bridge was suitable. I have had the Maryland bridges ever since and they are trouble free, I looked into implants but due to my orthodontic issues it would not be straightforward and there seems no point.

I am happy with my denture, you can't tell I have them and I see no point in spending £5k on implants when what I have works fine.

Happy to answer any questions.

Oh and your dentist is correct that you should wait for implants, it isn't just the NHS being tight, you need to have finished growing 😊
 
Ive got one granny tooth - which was made for me just before Christmas, during a fairly extensive period of dental work. I can see how it might be ok, if it fitted well - but mine has been nothing but trouble, so I'm not wearing it. Dentist wants me to persevere for a few months, and I am not up for it, so we've reached a bit of an impasse.
It just doesn't fit, and wobbles around/falls out constantly, which is a bit mortifying when I'm speaking to someone. If you get one, and you aren't happy with the fit, be prepared for a fight!
I'm gunning for a bridge - and I WILL get my own way, eventually!
 
Hi, I had a denture for 2 years after a faceful of mane out hunting. It was for 2 teeth, oddly not side by side.

It was annoying at first, this was back in around 1986.

My dentist told me to take it out to clean twice a day, but otherwise keep it in all of the time, including at night. It was no bother, no infections, no slippage (I actually wonder if keeping it in 24/7 made my gums conform to the shape?).

The only embarrassment was one time I was eating and mysteriously it dropped down and I shovelled food in before I realised, meaning I had to dash out of the room to retrieve food/teeth etc.

It was before implants, after 2 years I had a normal bridge, encompassing all front teeth. The only time this was a bother was when I contacted with a horse knee in the year 2000 and the whole lot had to be replaced. That was 18 years ago, still going strong.
 
I've not got anything much extra to add to all the advice above, apart from to say be careful when eating ice cream! :P My denture seemed to expand with hot drinks and contract with cold, and there was a moderately embarrassing incident when I was out with a friend and we were having ice cream before going to see a movie - my denture fell out and landed in the bowl... :D

After that I did some research and went for an impant!
 
I haven't had a denture but due to adult teeth never forming I've had 2 Maryland bridges since the age of 14. They have been a fab solution. I was told they should last for around 10 years but the right one is nearly 20 years old and still going strong. The left had some decay under the bracket so that compromised its security (after about 15 years) and it doesn't help that I grind/clench my jaw on the left too. It eventually died (on a macdonalds burger of all things) last year and I got it replaced with an implant. I'm not sure I could have justified spending around £1600 on an implant but I very wisely started dating a lovely young dental student 11 years ago and when I called him "my long term investment" he thought I was joking, now we're married so I get my teeth done for free but I have to say it's been great!
As the dental nurse says, I would definitely speak to your dentist about what options are available to you not just accepting that the denture is the only solution at this stage. There are a variety of NHS treatments available it might be that they are not the cheapest/most profitable ways to do it for the dentist. I had a period of wearing a retainer with in built false teeth until my mouth was ready to have the bridges.
Good luck with it all x
 
Those of you with implants, do you recommend ? Also if you don't get same day implant, have you got a gap with a "Peg" for six months or whatever . Sorry slightly hi jacked thread !
 
ycbm said:
Can't answer your question but how come you need dentures at your age, I thought you were a teenager?
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ycbm - dentures can be fitted for reasons other than age related. MY mum continually told me *don't jump on the bed* as I was jumping up and down like a trampoline *DON*T JUMP ON THE BED she would shout you can knock your teeth out. I did not listen and one day when I was 10 years old I was doing it, and the next moment I jumped too high and bending my knees in doing so I got myself right in the mouth, lots od blood and tears crying to mum we rushed to hospital, but did not know when you knock your 2nd teeth out you MUST put them in milk to keep the tooth alive. Sadly we found this out too late, and the tooth died, so many dentures on a brace and such over 25 years I was eventually fitted with a bridge to the two side teeth as it was one of my front teeth i knocked out. That is why it grates on me when kids jump up and down on the bed as they don't know it could be a life changing thing to do. :(
 
I've got a maryland bridge due to an adult tooth not forming (blaming my father - its a genetic hitch). When I was about 14/15 they used a denture to push the two teeth either side away as they'd drifted into the gap. I don't remember taking it out for anything apart from sleeping and I was riding a lot more adventurously in those days.

Last time I had the bridge replaced it was done privately and cost around £300 ish, so if you want something more permanent that isn't an implant its definitely worth speaking to your dentist about.
 
I lost 2 teeth last year due to an abscess - one back of my top left canine, the other next but one back. My dentist advised implants because a bridge wouldn't work (cr@ppy filled teeth) and a plate would not last for many years and would cost almost 4 figures anyway. My dentist is private unfortunately, and I could only afford one implant (£2400!!!!). The dentist assumed I'd go for the front one as you can see the gap when I smile. Nope. I went for the back one, because I couldn'y flippin' chew anything on that side, it just went down the gap. It took loads of visits to measure, fit, follow up, and I paid extra to be unconscious for the actual putting in of the peg, because I'm a dental wuss.

Anyway, the implant is super, it looks like a normal tooth, it will never decay, and it was no trouble at all healing etc. I'd love another to fill my gap at the front, but first I need a 4x4 and a trailer because my old lorry won't go on for ever...and fences...and and and!
 
Landcruiser said:
I lost 2 teeth last year due to an abscess - one back of my top left canine, the other next but one back. My dentist advised implants because a bridge wouldn't work (cr@ppy filled teeth) and a plate would not last for many years and would cost almost 4 figures anyway. My dentist is private unfortunately, and I could only afford one implant (£2400!!!!). The dentist assumed I'd go for the front one as you can see the gap when I smile. Nope. I went for the back one, because I couldn'y flippin' chew anything on that side, it just went down the gap. It took loads of visits to measure, fit, follow up, and I paid extra to be unconscious for the actual putting in of the peg, because I'm a dental wuss.

Anyway, the implant is super, it looks like a normal tooth, it will never decay, and it was no trouble at all healing etc. I'd love another to fill my gap at the front, but first I need a 4x4 and a trailer because my old lorry won't go on for ever...and fences...and and and!
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Just wanted add another point regarding implants, which I thought of when you said an implant will never decay.

Yes, the implant itself can't decay, however if someone's oral hygiene isn't very good, then it can lead to serious problems around the implant area. The dentist or hygienist will go into great detail and explain how to clean around the implant, and if their instructions are not followed, it could eventually lead to peri-implantitis and cause the implant to go loose from the surrounding tissue and bone.

A pre-assessment will be done to ascertain whether you have sufficient bone available to place the implant into. Not everyone has naturally got enough bone, but there are ways around this, for example adding artificial or bovine (!) bone to the area prior to/at the time of implant placement.

Also, there are many contraindications for having implants, e.g. if you already suffer from periodontitis and have poor oral hygiene, being on certain medications like biphosphonates, health problems like rheumatoid arthritis, smoking. There's a long list of these things...

For the majority of patients, implants are placed successfully and there's good osseo-integration, but they are not without risks and your dentist should explain all of these to you when considering having an implant placed.
 
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ycbm said:
Can't answer your question but how come you need dentures at your age, I thought you were a teenager?
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I know this has been pointed out already but dentures aren't just for old people or bad teeth. My teeth are in brilliant condition, no accidents and no fillings despite the big 4 0 approaching rapidly! But they are in very much the wrong places, I had one in the roof of my mouth and another up by my nose, and they still aren't sure whether I have UL2 at all!
 
npage123 said:
Just wanted add another point regarding implants, which I thought of when you said an implant will never decay.

Yes, the implant itself can't decay, however if someone's oral hygiene isn't very good, then it can lead to serious problems around the implant area. The dentist or hygienist will go into great detail and explain how to clean around the implant, and if their instructions are not followed, it could eventually lead to peri-implantitis and cause the implant to go loose from the surrounding tissue and bone.

A pre-assessment will be done to ascertain whether you have sufficient bone available to place the implant into. Not everyone has naturally got enough bone, but there are ways around this, for example adding artificial or bovine (!) bone to the area prior to/at the time of implant placement.

Also, there are many contraindications for having implants, e.g. if you already suffer from periodontitis and have poor oral hygiene, being on certain medications like biphosphonates, health problems like rheumatoid arthritis, smoking. There's a long list of these things...

For the majority of patients, implants are placed successfully and there's good osseo-integration, but they are not without risks and your dentist should explain all of these to you when considering having an implant placed.
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I have had several consultations for implants and I am not suitable. My gaps aren't big enough for the implant, so the only way to have an implant is to remove a healthy tooth and have two teeth on one post (total two posts and four teeth) or to have very extensive orthodontic work and maxillofacial surgery to fully sort my teeth. Reputable Dentists will not do option 1 and I am not happy with option 2, even though the NHS offered to fund everything bar the implants as it would be such a good teaching case!
 
Wow, this thread's an eye opener. I had no idea how many younger people still needed dentures.

I'm from the first generation where it hasn't been routine, and for me it was always linked in my mind with age. My mother hates hers and always has, once reason why I got insured for implants.

Interesting thread, thank you Chinchilla - another picture of your delightful little creatures due????
 
I also wasn't suitable for an implant. The nerves from the teeth either side of the missing one crossed into the gap where the implant would have gone.
 
OK, so after a very long dental appt finally got the opportunity to speak to my dentist and she said the denture has to be in all the time during the day, only coming out at night. Oh, and YCBM, as requested, I'll make a thread in the pet box for the chinchillas so as not to hijack the tack room xD
 
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