Thoughts on dentures or partials?

I hear they are very uncomfortable and a pita.

I need a lot of serious dental work, started with misaligned bite from braces in 83 so serious grinding at night for 30 years (roots on all 4 top front teeth are dead), fast forward to secondary Sjogrens (not enough saliva to protect them, and other obstacles... ).

I'm tired of root canals/and repaired root canals and replacing crowns that I grind through. Considering partials.

I read about glued "partials" but those who do it are too far away, so it will be a bridges. Except how does one replace two back molars on one side? I'm getting some taste back since Covid finally and I love to chew food and get all the textures and flavors.

I'm due for planing and scaling on one side of mouth in 2 weeks, not sure I can wait that long with the new toothache that came on tonight in one of the molars I just mentioned. I lost the filling several months ago, cracked off a part of that tooth-- scheduling here is 3-6 months out. I cracked a corner off my big front tooth a couple weeks ago biting off a piece of slice ham. I am SO over this crap. Could dentures or partials be a solution?

 

Judy's teeth were terrible and she got dentures while still in her 20's. They were never a problem. She had them replaced once and I think she was in her 50's then. My parents both had dentures and I do not remember them ever complaining. My sister got dentures at age 16. Both brothers also got dentures. I am the only one who has not gone that route.

Judy talked me into trying partials once and the lowers were okay but I hated the uppers so only wore them for a short time. Eventually I stopped wearing the lowers too. I have lost several teeth but can still bite and chew. I have had very little work done on my teeth over the years. One crown and one broken tooth. Never a root canal. I can still eat.

What I get is that some folks seem to get along with false while others find them very uncomfortable. I even know a few who wear them only when eating!

Do some big time thinking before you jump. I might add that Judy got her second set in Mexico. It cost a couple hundred while in the States it is in the thousands. We had the Mexican set checked by my dentist and expected to hear they were cheap and would not last. Ha! Just the opposite happened. The dentist said that it was suspected to be cheap but found they were as good as any you can buy here. There is a reason why dentists are among the highest paid people!

 

Wow, that's a lot!

 

Hay Now! lol

We have wild horses here, they are not shoe'd, they don't get their teeth floated, or vaccines or, or ... I've wondered about that since we moved here.

 

Yes, my Aunt says her boyfriend's dentures are downright painful and they have to drive across the state (Colorado traffic is really bad) to get them adjusted. The website of the dentist I see says they do dentures, I'll call tomorrow to be sure. I can't get myself back and forth to Cheyenne. ( I can get there just fine but fatigue scares me on the way home, I used to drive for a living and I cannot concentrate like I did all those years when fatigued). A couple other dentists here list them too but I have a feeling it's a blanket description on the site I was on for all dentists. Idk, they send molds out for my crowns, maybe that do that with dentures too? Hopefully someone here does dentures, traveling is a big factor.

 

Thank you for the suggestions on Mexico, traveling is not an option for me.

 

Did you have braces that pulled all your top teeth back into your skull too? I literally have to hold my bottom jaw backwards since 1983/4. Implants spook me, I can hear the drill thinking about it

Thank you, I did try a dental guard, my dentist required a sleep study to get one for me, gave me an order for the hospital for a home sleep test and made it incredibly difficult. Only check out at at 7:30 am, can only check in at 3 pm. Umm, I had to get my child to and from school at those times 20 miles out of town. Shanghai'd my husband twice, first time they lost the results, second time they it didn't record properly (you have to tape the sticky things on all over, and I used like a roll of tape). I gave up. Fast forward, my dentist got a ring at home sleep test though my dentist ~a month ago, she said she'd call if it was weird, no call.

Meanwhile she told me to get heat and shrink mouth gaurd at the pharmacy, I can't close my mouth with them or even only one of them on which is bad for those without enough saliva. What a mess huh!

 

Thank you, I know you have experienced some of the issues I have. I had bottle rot as a baby, had all silver capped baby teeth till adult teeth came in, I wonder if that affected my adult teeth in a different way like your father? Regarding money, I wonder about all the $$ spent so far too! My fantasy wish would be to have dentures and go to dentist once per year for checkup and be done.

Start with partials, upper front and lower molars I mentioned, and go from there?

 

Thank you, I'll get it figured out I really appreciate your input on this trying figure stuff out!