I hope his goes as well as mine did. I got lucky. I damaged my upper teeth so badly in an accident that they had to go, so they pulled them and then put in a temporary splint. I was supposed to get the plate made a few weeks later but we got transferred and I never got to go back. So I wore the splint (it had white teeth in the front but the molars were just the pink denture material) for almost a year.
Ken was asked by a Navy dentist to wire his garage, so in exchange for Ken’s work the dentist made my upper plate. He was thrilled to be doing something other than staring at Navy recruits’ mouths all day long. After hours I would go in and he really went overboard. He never seemed to be satisfied…,first it was the fit he worked on until that was perfect, then he worked on color and making them look as natural and close to my original teeth as possible. He used pre-accident photos of me to get the shapes right. They were absolutely beautiful when he was done.
My son Kenny was 3 months old when the dentist finished the plate. Kenny is now 49 years old and I still wear the same original plate, with only one reline ever, and my dentist here did that just recently. They are now so thin I can hold them up to the light and see through them, and the back molars have sort of splayed outwards. So three years ago my dentist did a light reline just to strengthen them a bit until I can replace them, which I don’t really want to do. He said that there isn’t anyplace around here that could do them as well, so he’d recommend sending them a place in Nebraska to duplicate them as closely as possible, Then he could fine tune the fit of the new ones when I got them back. But I’d be toothless for 2-3 weeks. Nope. Not me! He offered to do a temporary splint but that prospect isn’t thrilling either. So if this place Ken’s going to does a good job, I may consider…..just consider, mind you….replacing these. Whoever heard of one set of dentures being perfect and almost unchanged for almost 50 years? Would I ever get that fit and quality again? I dunno….scares me to think of changing.
