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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.

I have relied on my oral surgeon to undo what the dentist did. You are correct, DO YOUR RESEARCH. I love the way my teeth look, however they are so painful to wear I need the oral surgeon to remove bone and teeth fragments the dentist left in.