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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I've had an assortment. Fortunately, they weren't the transcendent horrors normally feared. They were done under Novocaine, and I had next to no post root canal discomfort. (Tylenol did for the bit I had.)
I inherited bad teeth from both parents. Mom had full upper and lower dentures, and dad got them later. My original teeth were going, one by one, and root canals and crowns were part of the replacement process. The fortunate thing is the original teeth just crumbled, but I got very few real toothaches when they did. My dentist was surprised. I was relieved.
The final straw was reached when a supposedly permanent crown fell out because the root it was attached to went. I told my dentist "My mother had full upper and lower plates, and so did my father. It's where I'm going to end up. All you are doing is delaying the inevitable. How about we skip over the remaining teeth going one by one and go directly to where I will end up anyway?" She agreed, and we began the process of removing the remaining original teeth. I now have a full lower denture, and an almost full upper one, anchored to a couple of permanent crowns that appear to be permanent. Dentures bring their own complications, like remembering to carry denture adhesive when I travel and refresh it just before sitting down to a meal, but it's still a vast improvement over the alternative.
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Dennis
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I have partials both lower and upper, but both parents had full dentures long before they were my age. I, too have thought about going the route you've taken.