I had all my tops and bottom teeth taken out on April 10 and immediates fitted same day. The top fits and feels like a dream! It is so snug and the are zero uncomfortable spots. On the other hand, this bottom denture WILL be the death of me, I swear!!! I have a very prominent malclusion of my mouth and all my life I lived with an open bite so big my tongue could slide between my teeth and out my mouth… For the first 16 days the PAIN had me in a mental state that I can’t even put words to!!! It was so bad! After swelling went down and they became looser things just got worse.. On my bottom jaw I chose to have a snap-on denture only because I do have a smaller mouth and my dentist said it would help me keep it on easier.. On day 5 after extractions I accidentally cold clocked my own face when I was getting dressed and my entire bottom plate FLEW out of my face!! When I went in the next day to be seen and tell them, my dentist took an x-ray, which clearly showed that the back right post had completely been ripped out of my jaw bone. This bro of a Dr didn’t even look inside of my mouth before he told me that all we can do is leave it to heal and they will see me again in 4 weeks!!! 4 weeks??!!! Yea, don’t even make it past a whole week really. My husband took me in yesterday to have them see me and take a real look inside… He took the bottom out for me (somehow, he had the bottom placed in such a way that it would “float” the top of my jawline, but it couldn’t come off of my jaw) when he took it out he saw that the pads to cover my posts had come unglued from the denture and when I was biting down shot was just not aligning right. So for over a week I took this guys advice and just let myself heal.. turns out my gums were healing over my posts because it wasn’t set correctly back in my myself when I punched myself and he obviously didn’t look at it to help me when I went in the day after that happened…. So yesterday he popped it out for me, re-glued the protective little paddings and sent me out into the world again…. We weren’t even out of the damn parking lot before the denture popped out of my face completely!! Why he didn’t lock it back in like it was before I have no idea because I asked him 3x to make sure he did, and he assured me he had… He lied to me. This damn bottom denture will not sit correctly on my jaw now at all!! I set it in, feel the back posts snap and when I put pressure towards the front teeth to snap the front post the entire denture slides down and creates an underbite. The pain is ridiculous!!! I am currently typing this without the bottom in at all and it is the best I have felt in over 2 weeks!!! No pain and I can FINALLY eat something that isn’t liquid!! But I do not want to keep it out over a fear of never having bottom teeth, but if they aren’t fitting properly it seems to me I am just making a bigger problem for myself by putting in a bottom that isn’t correctly placed. NOW. I know people will say go back and have them adjust again… you guys. It is a 3 hour drive there and back for me. The place that did mine is in the northern part of our state.. on top of that, the Dr and the assistants at the office have made me feel so small and so stupid and just so uncomfortable about even needing adjustments. The Dr was rude to me when I punched myself and told me that I “shouldn’t have just taken it out because it hurt” BRO I DIDNT!! I don’t feel like they care about me, they got their thousands of dollars and now I just complain too much….
Anyway. My thoughts were that I will just leave the damn thing out until my posts heal up better, because putting it back on sends me into a pain brain I can’t explain…. I don’t know. I think maybe I am just looking for advice because I have no one to ask about this kind of thing… if I do keep the bottom out all the way while the posts heal, will they be able to still make me a permanent denture to fit the snaps?? I tried putting my teeth back in when I woke up this morning and was met with severe pain in my front post!!! It is completely unbearable!!! Last night was the first night in 17 days I have actually slept and it was all and only because I took out the lower denture!!!! I was a walking zombie surviving on less than 2 hours of sleep at any given time!!!! I can not go back to that!!! Not in a million years!! I would rather to never wear the bottom immediate and just heal, then have them make me my bottom permanent when they do my top permanent in 4 more months… I just don’t know..
OH AND!!! I should definitely tell you guys! The x-ray I had yesterday showed that the snap-in screw that came out of my jaw when I punched myself on day 5po has reseated and my jaw is healing with it properly in place as it should be!! Thank god!! And with that I feel even more convicted to leave the bottom denture out for a while while all these posts heal up good and solid!! It seems as if I would be causing more damage to the posts with it not fitting and moving around so much, than I will just leaving it out. Besides that, with it out I can actually sleep and EAT!!! And if I’m being honest, I am already starving to death. Which was the entire reason I let my hubby talk me into this entire procedure to begin with!!