Many years, virtually useless dental plans, time and age have taken their toll.

I got to spend wednesday having my remaining teeth extracted, and a new set installed. I have since been keeping the pain controlled, and adjusting, re-learning how to eat(still have a long way to go there) letting the swelling come down, and adjusting.

I did some shopping around, the default dentures a couple of places were pushing looked like a mouth full of chiclets. What I ended up with look decent,
feel not too bad(I really have to learn how to chew all over again, and that is a tender process at the moment) And I look forward to being able to eventually eat crunchy and tough things again.

Even harder.. I need to learn how to talk again. The tongue has to work much differently than it has for quite a while.

Anyway.. take care of them choppers, this is not fun. But it certainly beats a mouth full of tooth shards.

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Janice

Anyway.. take care of them choppers, this is not fun. But it certainly beats a mouth full of tooth shards.

Soft^spirit, the above may have something to do with you once being a girlie-boxer. Go on, tell us all, how many fights did you have and how many knock-outs did you record?

One tooth was destroyed by a boy with a rock many years ago. Periodontal disease took care of most of the rest (you can link that to tobacco use).

Poor finances for many reasons not my own doing, and a partial immunity
to the numbing stuff making each dental visit a terror also took their toll.

While I have no difficulty agressively debating things, physical violence is not
something I endure nor condone.

As the gums recede, the tops break off.

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Janice

While I have no difficulty agressively debating things, physical violence is not
something I endure nor condone.

Thank goodness I was only joking here then.

yeah, I got it.

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Janice

Regarding your speech clarity and your chewing difficulties, give yourself a little more time to adjust. Your brain and tongue are working together to figure out where all your new oral landmarks are. I am not trying to minimize your pain, but I work as a speech therapist in a hospital and our department gets a lot of oral cancer patient referrals. I have seen people adjust and compensate to far more radical physical changes. Janice, I know how excellent your brain is and I know it is only a matter of time before you sound exactly like yourself!

I really have to learn how to chew all over again, and that is a tender process at the moment) And I look forward to being able to eventually eat crunchy and tough things again.

Have a big bowl of vegetables for diner today, they should be easy to chew and there full of goodies too. That's my menu for my diner tonight, potatoes, carrots, sprouts, runner beans, broccoli and cauliflower and a small tin of mackerel.
I would prefer to have chips, sausages, egg, bacon, baked beans and black pudding but I'm good I only have that once a month and that's on the once a month Saturday night cook-up at work.

Have a big bowl of vegetables for diner today,...

LOL Michael! Only an Englishman would say that vegetables are soft and easy to chew!!! Out here in the wilds of California, we like our vegies very lightly cooked so that they retain a little snap and crunch!

Soft^Spirit speaks the truth... and it looks like it might be my turn as soon as I work up the courage to schedule a dentist appointment. I swear they'll be able to retire off my mouth alone!

A fruity candy (Skittles, Starburst) and Pepsi addiction are my only addictions I have left after giving up smoking. I've been able to control my candy intake, but the Pepsi has been hard to give up.

All my back teeth are gone or almost gone, making chewing very difficult. I so don't look forward to dentures. :`(

Have a big bowl of vegetables for diner today,...

LOL Michael! Only an Englishman would say that vegetables are soft and easy to chew!!! Out here in the wilds of California, we like our vegies very lightly cooked so that they retain a little snap and crunch!

Must confess here Angela, us Brits to tend to over-cook our veggies somewhat. Most probably goes some way to explaining why we use the veggie water to make the gravy with. Yup, to get back the goodness that we have just boiled out of the food.

Yeah it is called "stew" once boiled up. I tried canned peas last night, and even those were too "hard" to process at the moment.. to give an idea of current tenderness levels.

There are other steps than dentures available now days, overdentures, regular dentures, and implants(into the bones). And that is pretty much the order of cheaper to expensive. For me, for now, full dentures were called for.


Oh and.. for me a full knockout was required. There just is not enough novacaine(or whatever caine they use now days) in town to do the job.

I am sure I will adjust.. the fact is I DID adjust to chewing with minimal teeth, and speaking through them. Now I need to un-learn all those tongue twists.. Ahh well.

I just got back from the store, stocked up canned soups(none of this "hearty" stuff at the moment) pudding fixings, and so forth...

If I am brave later I can try some over-cooked pasta.

Scrambled eggs were even too much yesterday.

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Janice

Michael can speak for himself, I certainly like my veg at the crunchy end of the spectrum.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Rob too can speak for himself, I certainly like my veg at the soft end of the spectrum...."take that!!"

Wishing you a speedy recovery and a short relearning curve.

Have you tried any of the flavored oatmeals?

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Wishing you a speedy recovery and a short relearning curve.

Have you tried any of the flavored oatmeals?

I have plenty of oatmeal, and a well stocked spice rack ;)

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Janice

Have you tried any of the flavored oatmeals?

Porridge oats boiled in milk and eaten with some honey mixed in too....really yummy.

I have plenty of oatmeal, and a well stocked spice rack ;)

Wont the spice tend to aggravate your tender gums?
Soft fruits, they'l be OK. Yogurt too, I'm just having some now, rhubarb flavoured and it actually tastes nicer than that in rhubarb pie.

May I suggest potato chips and corn-on-the-cob? Teach those gums who's boss! ;-D