I got immediate dentures (top and bottom) Friday after having 19 teeth extracted. It is now Wednesday and I still can't close my lips properly. When should I be able to? I went yesterday for adjustments for sore spots and was told I am healing well and my bite is fine. I am just really embarrassed that I can't close my lips and if I force them closed I look like I have a huge wad of chew in my bottom lip and my top looks the same!
By April
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The permanent ones you will receive later should fit perfectly, but the ones you wear right now are just temporary ones.
Oh that's helpful... not at all. She knows THIS maybe try helping with the problem shes having NOW?
So I get my teeth done in April immediately denture I had no idea those temporary
Can I make my top dentures a u shape on top.
Im on month 8 with permanent dentures and still taking them out to eat. Not a happy camper. I dont think they were made proper. Going to search out a denture specialist and pay out of pocket and hopefully get something I can work with.
Tell your dentist they need to shave the top part of the gums down there's too much up there that you can't close your mouth.
I had 14 teeth pulled and 6 implants that was 18 days ago. Been back to Aspen Dental 3 times for sanding or whatever they do. My last visit I was told to keep them in for 7 days and use fixadent. And brush the dentures with dawn dish soap. Well even with the adhesive they used I was talking with a friend and damn things all but fell out. The surgeon last Friday said not to wear them for months
I don't know anything about dentures, but I suspect that yours are not fitting properly. Perhaps you need to consult another dentist, or push your own dentist for an explanation of this poor fit.
Mine are doing that also. They close perfectly together outside my mouth. Once they are each put in place where they fit my jaws they wont line up with each other. This provides a quarter inch extended overbite. My mouth is permanently propped open. They insist that since some of the back teeth touch they are fine. Meanwhile to actually chew anything I have to jut my lower jaw out until it hurts and snaps with every up and down motion. And on top of that because they are so large compared to my mouth... I cant fit anything in between my bite thicker than a flat tortilla. They are completely useless for eating and Im less capable of proper pronunciation with them in than toothless. Working in customer service where people need to be able to understand me means Im screwed. Ins will not cover a second pair and the office Im at said even in 6 months all they will do is a hard reline... which still wont necessarily fix the issue with the way the teeth sit to line up versus where they need to be for my jaws to line up properly. If I want a new set I can pay out of pocket, they provide no guarantee regarding functionality.
I am so sorry you are dealing with this. I don't have any helpful answer for you, however, I just wanted to say that my step mother got the same kind of dentures you did about a year ago. It sounds like she has the same kind. She paid out of pocket $8,000.00 for these dentures and is still unable to wear them for a long period of time. She will put them in for dealing with public, or family get togethers, but she can't wear them very long. She got hers done at Aspen Dental, and she already had her extractions done a year ot 2 before and had regular dentures, but she wanted to upgrade to the kind that lock in.
I think if I were either of you, I would be returning the dentures back to the dentist's and be requesting a refund. That makes no sense to spend that kind of money on something that ALOT of people never get right!
I am dealing with the same thing from Aspen Dental. I have a temporary set the was not even sent to the right office first of all. I am four weeks out from my oral surgery and the temporary set they gave me ha dot have so many adjustments made to it. Now when I put them in, the top set pushes my mouth so far out that the teeth makes me look like Bucky beaver and I cannot close my lips. Even my own husband and children are not happy with what is going on because it is nothing like what I would normally look like.
Is this Dr a Prosidonist? I'm just got my upper immediate denture and have a horse mouth. I'm with tufts dental school in Boston , Prosidonist dept so I'm hoping this aweful look is from my gums and palet healing.
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