Reply to Does getting dentures hurt?

its horrible, especially when you have all your teeth pulled out. it happened to me in one day, all my teeth pulled and the denture put on the open gums, then i went to the hospital to recover for a week, cedars sanai, in los angeles. i was twenty something years old.

I dont have dentures, but i really want them.  I heard so many negative about the pain from the dentures.  I want to get as many opinion that i could get.  I don't have a denture but I want to get dentures so bad, but I cannot afford them.  I don't have dental insurance, I looked dental plans out there.  Almost all plans i saw that every tooth they pull....is an additional cost other than the actual denture.  Is that true..?  If you get dentures, do they give you a temporary denture before you get the actual denture.

I have had my immediate denture for a month now and i am totally happy. i only have a upper. i had them all removed at once and had very little pain. as i read this message board it is obvious to me that everyone is different. i have insurance that paid for the dentures but every tooth removed cost extra.and thank god it was 80% covered as well. i can only give you my opinion about my experience, and it was not a bad one. my upper denture looks exactly like my natural teeth and i feel very confident when i smile. i am 51 years old. my bottom teeth are in great shape and i plan to keep them that way. also after your teeth are pulled they do incert an immediate denture if thats what you want. or you can wait until your gums heal and then get them. i say no to that...i dont ever want to be without my BEAUTIFUL TEETH.. to me they are very much my real teeth. i wish you all the best and that you have a positive experience with your new smile. GOD BLESS.  

You don't say where you live, but if there's a Dental School near enough to make it worth your while, that's a way to get things done with less expense.

Everything about getting dentures hurts, except the actual extractions.  You only have the pain of the anesthetic shots there.  The pain comes in afterwards.  I didn't get pain pills that were strong enough, so they pretty much took the edge off the pain, but it was still plenty to give me two nights of almost no sleep. 

800mg of Motrin is equivalent to one of the Hydrocodone pills, and that helped me a lot.  The single overdose shouldn't hurt you, but there's a limit on how much Ibuprophen you can take in 24 hours, and if you take 800mg (4 pills) every six hours every day for a week, you might have some kidney or liver damage (I forget which).

I was told repeatedly to wear my temporary dentures as much as possible, and of course they hurt a lot when they were in.  It took about a week for that to slack off significantly, and another week before I could say that the pain was a constant irritation, but not severe unless I tried to bite down on something or chew something.

You're going to feel strange trying to eat a hamburger with a knife & fork, but that's what it will take to get hamburgers eaten for quite a while.  Pizza too, since you'll probably be able to chew things long before you can bite things off (like a piece of pizza).

Yes, you get Temporary, or Immediate dentures as soon as your teeth are all out.  They take impressions a week or two before teeth begin to come out and make temporary dentures from them. So you have temporary  dentures sitting on the counter before the dentist ever starts on the first extraction.

Don't count on being able to really EAT much anything with them... my dentist kept referring to them as "Party Teeth". 

They make you look and speak fairly normally while your gums are healing and and the swelling is going down, but really aren't much good for eating.

Until you have NO teeth in your mouth, you don't fully appreciate how valuable they were for eating.  That's when you find out that with no teeth, your gums can't really even be made to touch each other except in the very front.

It turns out that you do most of your eating by chewing, not biting.  You're pretty much on soup, peanut butter, and oatmeal when your dentures aren't in.