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I'm 41 and today I've got my first denture
Couldn't afford the £1500 for root canal and crown so it's gone and been replaced with a plastic one.
Feels weird AF at the moment, I don't think the fit is right, I can't really bite anything, my molars are hitting the plastic bit. Also my (fortunately NHS) dentist didn't really give me any direction about what to do about leaving it in/out whether to book a follow up or anything.
It's an upper right 4 (I think, premolar anyway) would be a visible gap, but not massively. Not sure what I'm doing, anyone got any advise?
Next stop gout.
The denture will feel odd to begin with I know mine did . I take mine out and put it in water with a denture tablet dissolved in there overnight. I only had to have one because our granddaughter headbutted me ! 😳
I was thinking about how I am turning into my dad recently. No dentures yet (for either of us) but I am aware of the following:
Beginning to like thick cut marmalade
Listening to Radio 4
Always having a packet of extra strong mints in the car
Snoring.
N0 chance of turning into my dad - I'm double his age! But having said that...
Love marmalade (La Vieja Fabrica is sublime)
Listened to Radio 4 for years
Smints in the car
Snoring
If cost in the UK is a problem, seriously look at a trip to Estonia or Hungary.
My aunt got her gob hole done for 5k in Estonia rather than 9k in the UK.
In Germany your health insurance will cover the costs of travel, hotel and treatment in Budapest because it's still cheaper than treatment in Germany.
N0 chance of turning into my dad – I’m double his age! But having said that…
You reminded me that I took my eldest son for his longest bike ride to date recently. Afterwards I remember thinking I’m the age my Dad was when we went for a ride and he mentioned he was the age then that his Dad was when he passed.
That looks confusing written down, but basically it’s good to be alive isn’t it?
wait, what?!
I’m assuming he means that his father passed away at a young age and he has now reached twice that age.
If cost in the UK is a problem, seriously look at a trip to Estonia or Hungary.
Don't do this. Not unless you're happy to fly back there whenever there's a problem.
Love marmalade (La Vieja Fabrica is sublime)
Listened to Radio 4 for years
Smintswine gums in the carSnoring
No dentures yet though, just a gap, upper right
I've had gout. Would not recommend.
Bought the exact same pair of shoes without realising, I now have to get another pair knowing that it's a match, or get something else that won't be as good
Sore this morning, feeling proper grot.
Popped it out (the denture) this morning to clean the porridge off it, gap feels weird too, but according to the wife it doesn't look bad so will have to see which is least worse.
Clean your teeth kids!
My dad used to begin every day by going into the bathroom and pissing like a cart-horse while simultaneously farting loudly enough to cause structural damage to the house. It was a sort of household dawn chorus
I have become my dad
I'm currently enquiring about having a work bench made for my garage. I'm not turning into my dad, I'm turning into my Grandad.
I’m assuming he means that his father passed away at a young age and he has now reached twice that age.
Right answer. I'm 56 and he died at 28. Fortunately, at the last minute, the rest of the family didn't join him on the journey, which is why I am typing this. He didn't have dentures either - in fact I have just one filling at 43 😉
Now had you said turning into my Grandad, that is more likely... Cardigans - God's own knitwear!
I've had a denture for almost ten years now, originally for two teeth lost in my RTA days after my 40th bday and then two others that died later on from same crash (so block of four from upper central to left incisor). Used to frequently have days when it felt uncomfortable having denture in or out, still happens from time to time.
Original plastic one left in water overnight, newer metal one is simply left on side.
Radio 4, good god.
Zippered cardigans. Possible style crimes become secondary concern as these are lovely when suffering from rotator cuff injury.
Zippered cardigans
Just add hood and you are "on trend". Add a dash of cashmere and it's just the best item of clothing I own! It's still a cardigan though 😀
Never met mine really, don't remember him anyway. Already over ten years older than he managed though!
Thankfully I have spent every effort trying to not turn into my father, an abusive, alcoholic prick, as such, I am a complete and utter soft touch when it comes to my daughter and she can wind me round her little finger... and i don't care!
Zippered cardigans.
In our house, the sorts of zip up softshells and fleeces that are sold by the skip load in places like Cotswold, are referred to as "Sports Cardigans"
Just add hood and you are “on trend”. Add a dash of cashmere and it’s just the best item of clothing I own! It’s still a cardigan though 😀
I hate hoods on these things. Best ever version is old Rapha Merino Track Top, just checked receipt from my archive and it is from 2011. How many more Dad points from having proper archive and over decade old favourite clothes?
I've started doing the 'banging around noisily in the morning to wake all the others in the house' thing that my dad did, we hated and moaned at him about it all the time.
However, I genuinely try to be quiet (just getting on and tidying) and now wonder if dad was always doing the same. Sorry dad.
40-50 does seem to be about the right age for you and all your mates to start succumbing to Old Man Diseases. My friends have variously had gout, cataracts, dangerously high blood pressure, etc etc. For my part, I was gifted piles.
Oh, and I had a virus at the back end of last year which has rendered me deaf. Which more than anything is really frustrating because my partner can't grasp it. I must say "what?" a hundred times a day. At one point she yelled at me exasperated, "can't you lip read?" Of course, that's a skill that just appears instantly when you can't hear. You should see my Braille skills when I close my eyes.
It's doubly annoying because she's a WFH childminder and when she talks to the kids you could hear her from low Earth orbit. In some ways it's actually a blessing.
In our house, the sorts of zip up softshells and fleeces that are sold by the skip load in places like Cotswold, are referred to as “Sports Cardigans”
"Action Sandals" here 🙂 I keep threatening to take them on bike packing trips and my (younger) mate insists he will set fire to them. Possibly while I'm still wearing them. So comfy tho and you know, not Crocs 🙂