Please tell me about your experience with dentures as well as foods to eat when you first get your dentures.
2006-10-12 10:58:26 · 3 answers · asked by beth l 1 in Health ➔ Dental
Practice, practice, practice. It takes time. If you sat down at a piano for the first time, you would not be playing classical music in a day. While I can not comment on the quality of your dentures, I can only hope that they are "just right" and that this is a matter of getting used to dentures.
Dentures are not a replacement for teeth. They are simply better than not HAVING teeth. They do take some patience on your part. You will have to start out with chewing smaller bites and trying to distribute the food a little to the left and a little to the right at the same time. You HAVE lost the taste of your food, because you have a lot of insulation in your mouth now. You probably taste half denture and half food. After a while, your sense of taste will return somewhat, but that too is an adjustment on your part.
I know that this is not very encouraging, but thousands of new denture wearers make the adjustments. If it takes a month or two, you will look back in a few years and say that it was hardly any time at all. It's just difficult to accept that while you are learning to use dentures for the first time.
2006-10-12 11:01:17 · answer #1 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.doctorspiller.com/DenturesYesOrNo.htm
Some people just cannot get a handle on dentures and some do fine. But you do need to know that once your teeth are gone that it is the roots of the teeth that keeps the bones strong. Once the roots are gone there is nothing to keep the jaw bone from deteriorating. Plus the friction of the denture rubbing back and forth really puts a wear and tear on the bones as well. If you can possibly afford it consider dental implants in the future. At least enough to secure the plate from movement. The implants act like roots and keep your jaw bone from deteriorating.
2006-10-13 07:16:31 · answer #2 · answered by Skeeter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have upper dentures never had a problem with them but when you first start wearing them its hard to eat hamburgers or large sandwiches because they give a little but after awhile you ll get the hang of it and eat like normal other then that i eat the same as i did before getting them even eating peanuts and hard candy they work great
2006-10-12 11:09:32 · answer #3 · answered by kayme42 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋