My first day with my new denture

I felt happy, and part of me knew that I was heading back to normality (whatever that was). I could smile again and not worry about a missing tooth showing or the condition of the remaining teeth. Speech was a bit more difficult. It sounded like I had been drinking all night but that is part of the adjustment. All it needed was time and practise.

One thing no-one ever told me was feeling of the denture in my mouth. It felt unnatural, like there was a dinner plate in my mouth. Consciously, I knew it was a denture and all the benefits it carried with it. Subconsciously though, there was a foreign body stuck in my mouth.
As I drove home from the Prosthetic clinic I had the sudden urge to throw up, dry heaving as I went through an intersection. Luckily nothing followed it. I don’t know if part of it was the plastic taste of the denture, but later that night I had that urge again.

There is an adjustment period when you first get the denture and once you get through those initial few days, just remember it won’t last forever, you move through the first stage and onto the second. There are a few more to go but you need to rewards yourself for getting through it and keep going. Be positive and listen to what your dentist has told you, care for your denture and keep up the salt rinses.

You get through and it will become your new normal. It will become a part of you and you will notice if it is not there more than when it is in.

This is just part of my new journey, and we are always on a new journey.