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[old2soon]

    In Springfield Mo just off S Glenstone a bit N of US 60. Food was fair svc sorta o k long wait for the food-breakfast sampler platter 2 strips bacon 2 sausage links two hunks of ham 2 eggs hash browns and black rich strong coffee. Just missed 14 buscks and coffee was near 3 by itself. Reason I put on the feed bag there other side of the road I had spent a bit over 2 hrs at Aspen Dental gittin fitted fer new teeth. That "free" gubmint stimulus money gittin put to good use and some much needed New Dentures!  Had a Nasty wad of blue I guess plastic? in my mouth and took a bit to git setup right and 2moro we fit a wax replica before the finished dentures git made. Read more good reviews than negative ones. 7 year no question warranty Except for actual losing them and at $2574.40 out the door coulda been worse. The other options they showed me were 6 month and a 3 year warranty. The jump coinage wise from 3 year to 7 year was about $250.00 and I asked with so many outlets how do that warranty work? Gotta bring em back to where I bought em!  They Can't be fixed at another Aspen Dental when I travel? Nope!  Anywho hope this helps somebody! RIDE SAFE.

[scooperhsd]

Yesterday while I was at my dentist getting a filling, as I was checking out, I asked about partials for upper left back and lower right back - my share $1064 . But I've already blown through my dental allowance until the next insurance coverage year (Jan / Feb time). Things like a crown, getting teeth pulled, etc. drains it quick....

And I really need to save our resources for the wife's treatment (see Family News).

[Jess from VA]

Among all the other things ageing often takes from us, losing teeth may piss me off more than any other.

And it always seems like you get to sink hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars into each one, before it finally has to come out.  And all the pain and suffering that goes into that.  Still, we do everything we can to save them, they don't grow back. 

And isn't it funny that no one on the entire planet likes going to the dentist?  Not even the dog likes it.

Dentistry is like a small segment of the Spanish Inquisition that was allowed to continue, unabated.

You lose enough teeth, it affects your diet.  There are some things I really liked to eat, but I really need to lay off anymore because they work the remaining teeth too hard, and mostly only on the one side with the better collection of molars.

I was just yesterday moving my tongue around trying to calculate how many I am now missing.  Not counting wisdom teeth, it is either 5 or 6.  (And I have a lifetime of excellent personal dental care too; brush and floss and water pic, so this is not all on me.)

I had a 3-tooth bridge in front (upper) for about 12 years, and the last three years it got loose (not fixable), and two months ago, it fell out in the sink.  Bridges require partially destroying the anchor teeth on each side, so the bridge was only for one missing tooth, but when it fell out, the anchors on both sides came out with it.  I am unable to get implants because the bone is in bad shape, I will not allow a 6-tooth bridge (that requires partial destruction of three more GOOD teeth I cannot afford to lose), and I will never wear a partial flipper that goes in and out of your mouth like a football mouth guard.

On the upside, now when I smile wide, I look like a complete moron but it's always nice to be able make people laugh (because laughter is the best medicine).

Just for giggles, I was thinking of starting a pole on how many missing teeth we have.  Sorry Dennis, no prizes will be awarded.   

 

[scooperhsd]

Sure he can take the contest ? - I'm over double digits missing... counting all 4 wisdom teeth, among others.

on the molars - if I have them on the top (right side) - I don't have them on the bottom.  If I have them on the bottom (left side) - I don't have them on the top...

[old2soon]

       Been back from A D bout 1/2 an hr and here be an update. Full wax mock up fitted today and other than one teensy tiny minor adjustment told the tech lets git er done. And that wax mold impression thingy tasted puredeeazz NASTEEEEEEE! So 2moro my new dentures WILL be ready as the tech set 2moros appointment and I let him KNOW I have No Plans on another 170 mile round trip should my dentures NOT be ready. Told the young man punch my address into yer phones GPS cuz iffin I leave without my new teeth You WILL be making a delivery. IF-Large IF-the finished dentures look as good as the wax impression should be good to go. I did Not choose vain white or smokers/chewers yellow but something in the middle. And Carl as an aside from me settin aside that stimulus moola tween the teeth and a cage transmissin rebuild I have helped a few folks to keep workin!    RIDE SAFE.

[Jess from VA]

Sure he can take the contest ? - I'm over double digits missing... counting all 4 wisdom teeth, among others.

on the molars - if I have them on the top (right side) - I don't have them on the bottom.  If I have them on the bottom (left side) - I don't have them on the top...

This is what I think is the most serious problem with missing teeth.  Fronts for cutting off food can be lived without with a knife and fork.  My days of whole apple and corn on the cob eating are over, but I can still eat them by cutting them up (or off the cob) first.  

But grinding your food up requires opposing molars.  How does one mulch up a piece of steak.... in a blender?

Dentists know about this, and when I talked about getting molar implants (which I have decent bone to support), he explained the dental triage for fixing them in order of most necessary to least necessary.  And that ends up being opposing molars for grinding (and properly digesting) your food.  There is also the problem of unopposed molars beginning to grow out farther (over time) than they are supposed to be.

My problem with molar implants is..... (besides cost is) working deep in your mouth is the most aggravating of all.  Long periods of wide open mouth/jaw, to the point of painful jaw cramps, where he gets both hands and tools in there, with the hygienist sticking her vacuum cleaner in there.  Both up to the elbows.  And I have a bad gag reflex.  I go crazy and finally have to ask them to give my jaw a rest for a recovery period.  While other patients are waiting in the cue.

So i could really use a couple molar implants, but am living without them, for now.

I'm also forcing myself to grind up more food on the bad side, to save the good side from overwork and eventual failure.

Whatever happens, I cannot live on oatmeal and baby food.  

[old2soon]

         That opposing molar thing there Jess Is Most of the reason I am Not chewing my food properly or enough! And you pay fer that with constipation. So to say I am Looking Forward to NEW TEETH Is an Understatement!  Tired of apple sauce like good crunchy apples celery carrots and other Good Things Food Wise! RIDE SAFE.

[scooperhsd]

I'm not getting implants until they have to pull everything left and then I want the dentures that click on the implants. Right now - I chew with a lower RH  partial that I didn't wear enough and it doesn't fit too good elsewhere in my mouth due to my teeth moving.

[Jess from VA]

I'm not getting implants until they have to pull everything left and then I want the dentures that click on the implants. Right now - I chew with a lower RH  partial that I didn't wear enough and it doesn't fit too good elsewhere in my mouth due to my teeth moving.

I have a friend with that rig, and he says they work great.  Course, he's the only millionaire I know, and he needed it. 

Funny story about him; he had an older brother and sister, older than my parents, and referred to himself as the miraculous mistake baby.  We grew up together and were best friends for many years (and were each other's best men at our weddings).

His family had fallen on really hard times, and he was raised in relative poverty.  He never got taken to a dentist and always had terrible teeth even from young age.  Through years of hard work and struggle and luck, he became the only wealthy man of our 160 graduating HS class of 1971.

He is a vice president of a Hollywood conglomerate, and golfs with movie stars.   

[old2soon]

       Well the finished dentures got picked up earlier today and corn chips way easier to crunch now Properly. A rib eye steak baked tater white mushrooms and raw red onions were the First Test and test deemed successful!  Next on the menu-any damn thing I want!  RIDE SAFE.

[Oss]

I have a friend in PA who has had no teeth for years and he can chew a steak (actually saw him demolish a porterhouse during a powwow a few times)

So where there is a will there is a way !

Miss his company and our canadian friend also

[Jess from VA]

Glad to hear it Dennis.  

As a little boy (4-5), visiting my grandad (always a very happy and jolly fellow when all his daughters and their children came every Thanksgiving) used to ask me if I slept with my teeth in my mouth, and I found this utterly confusing.  Of course grandad, how could you not?  He (and other adults) would laugh, and I didn't get it.  So later my mom takes me up to grandad's room and shows me a glass of water on his nightstand with teeth in it.  And it freaked me right out.

Grandad was a lifetime deer hunter, and the spare upstairs bedroom I slept in had a whole collection of big deer head taxidermy hanging on all the walls.  And when the lights went out, that freaked me out even worse.  

[LTD]

 

Among all the other things ageing often takes from us, losing teeth may piss me off more than any other.

And it always seems like you get to sink hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars into each one, before it finally has to come out.  And all the pain and suffering that goes into that.  Still, we do everything we can to save them, they don't grow back. 

And isn't it funny that no one on the entire planet likes going to the dentist?  Not even the dog likes it.

Dentistry is like a small segment of the Spanish Inquisition that was allowed to continue, unabated.

You lose enough teeth, it affects your diet.  There are some things I really liked to eat, but I really need to lay off anymore because they work the remaining teeth too hard, and mostly only on the one side with the better collection of molars.

I was just yesterday moving my tongue around trying to calculate how many I am now missing.  Not counting wisdom teeth, it is either 5 or 6.  (And I have a lifetime of excellent personal dental care too; brush and floss and water pic, so this is not all on me.)

I had a 3-tooth bridge in front (upper) for about 12 years, and the last three years it got loose (not fixable), and two months ago, it fell out in the sink.  Bridges require partially destroying the anchor teeth on each side, so the bridge was only for one missing tooth, but when it fell out, the anchors on both sides came out with it.  I am unable to get implants because the bone is in bad shape, I will not allow a 6-tooth bridge (that requires partial destruction of three more GOOD teeth I cannot afford to lose), and I will never wear a partial flipper that goes in and out of your mouth like a football mouth guard.

On the upside, now when I smile wide, I look like a complete moron but it's always nice to be able make people laugh (because laughter is the best medicine).

Just for giggles, I was thinking of starting a pole on how many missing teeth we have.  Sorry Dennis, no prizes will be awarded.   

 

[cookiedough]

and hear I thought this thread was about IHOP bill being 14 buckeroosss...   NO IHOP's around me but when down to Florida about 10 years ago on vacation tons out there and I thought got decent food at a decent price back then anyways?

AS far as teeth go,  my wife and me doubled up this year on dental both took it at work seeing as how she got done 2 crowns and me 3 crowns all at once and would've been  4K or so total but with double insurance cost us less than 1 grand out of pocket meeting our MAX payout on both insurnaces.  For once in my lifetime I actually used insurance to cough up some dough vs. paying all those 30 years high insurance premiums.