Week 4 with new smile

Well, it is now four weeks since I got my new smile. The teeth are feeling more and more natural. Today the dentist did a soft reline. That is where she puts this goop that tastes terrible on the dentures and shoves them back in my mouth telling me to bite down and hold for seven minutes. It might make a person gaggy but just holding the head upright helps.

After she took them out she trimmed off the excess and put them back in. WOW! They feel so much more comfy. The bottom plate is still bouncing around on me though. She said that has a lot to do with what my tongue is doing. I have to train my tongue to stay up nearer the teeth and not brush along the bottom of the plate. Doing that will keep the sides of the plate from bouncing upward on me. She said I don't need to use the Fixadent any more, but if I feel the need for it only use a little bit. In January I will go back and she will do the permanent final lining. I am still thinking the bottom will be loose and have to have something done to it. Maybe add the pegs that will hold it down. I know someone who did that and it worked very well. I prefer not to have to do that. I still don't like the idea of anyone putting their hands in my mouth.

I am eating better. Over the weekend I ate some pizza (cut up) and today I had Chinese. I don't want to start eating the stuff I used to before though. I have lost 10 pounds and want to keep losing. I am really laying low on the carbs.

That is my update on my smile. If anyone has anything they want to add, please add what you want. Remember to take care of your teeth. Nothing ever really replaces what you were born with.