I would make sure that you need them,and if you have been told by your dentist that he or she can't repairyour other taste then I would ask him or her to recomend a oral surgen one that he or she has worked with. Oral surgeons are able to give outproducts that will relax you and when you are frozen he can remove the teeth with little or no struggle and make sure that the areas are nice and smooth for your dentist can go to work and it wont take long youll have a brand new smile.

DON'T DO IT!!! I would give anything to have my own teeth back. Since I have had dentures (full uppers and lowers) I have lost so much weight. I look approx. 15 years older than I am. My upper dentures will only work with Fixodent paste. They seem to be fine. But my lower dentures have NEVER stayed put. I cannot chew with them on. They hurt me so badly. I have tried everything I think possible and nothing works. Now I am considering the "screw-in" teeth where the denture I believe hooks somehow onto the screws and hopefully helps it stay.

I was very, very sick. I was on all kinds of medicines and depressed, turns out I had a very sick mouth. Since I got my dentures my health has turned completely around, I literally can tell that my mouth is no longer pumping poisons into my body! I love my new teeth, I've learned to live with them very comfortably, although it takes a VERY positive attitude. I can eat all kinds of things now, and I smile and laugh all the time now! I haven't even taken my antidepressants for 4 months now, I feel great!!! Find a good dentist who will give you lots of good drugs and will get you through it. Stay Positive!!

Do your research first. What kind of dentures do you want? Who are the prosthodontists in your town and what do they charge for extractions, initial visits, upper or lower dentures and which lab do they use? Then compare answers and decide. Ask people with dentures that you like, who did the work?!?!?!?? Labs are the most important answer, it turns out. Sloppy dental labs make poor quality teeth. But, even good quality teeth can be less than you had imagined at first. Don't let the surgeon, as I did(not knowing),who pulled my teeth, do NOT let him sand away your bones to make the dentures more easily removed. You need those bones to hold them in place. My bone ridge is now gone. Dentures have nothing to hold onto. Call each dentist office and ask your comparative questions, take notes. You do get what you pay for. Dentures can cost from $395 to $3,000 in my town, just for the uppers. Don't let your horror at the situation nor your pain keep you from making the dentist improve your dentures while you are just beginning. I said, "Just don't give me perfect little grey Chiclets for teeth," to my dentist. The day that he gave them to me to see, I was so frightened by it all that I didn't really look at them. When the surgeon put them in my messed up mouth, I didn't want to look at them either. When I returned to my dentist a few days later, he asked me if I was unhappy with the teeth and I said yes and cried. He volunteered to make changes to them, but I was by then, so depressed that I just went home and never went back to see him in five years. I have, as a woman, felt ugly ever since. My teeth are tiny little hidden grey Chiclets when I smile and not the huge horse teeth that hung down below my top lip when I smiled previously. So, I don't smile and hate my mouth area. I had trouble speaking Spanish and Portuguese after the work was done, but with time and patience am now able to form the words as before. Practice makes better all things, no? Now I need lowers and I am depressed again..............sigh. Let the research begin.