My Personal Recommedation
Are you scared to get dentures?? Are you too young? Afraid folks will notice?
Well put your fear on pause for a sec and listen to my story!

Everyday I literally get dozens and dozens of emails from people just like you suffering from serious pain and despairing about what to do. Money is just too tight and somehow our teeth sadly become a "luxury." After being in the same boat, I managed to climb out. It was wasn't the way I wanted to deal with my teeth, but I did it and believe me when I say I wish I had done it years ago!

If you're anything like me, dentures is a LAST resort. But I had no other options. My teeth were simply falling out of my head.  After the exam it was determined that they had to go. They had become so brittle over the years that if I had chosen to get root canals, crowns, bonding, etc... they would only fall apart again within the next 5 to 10 years. I finally broke down and decided that it was the best course to take. I felt like I was on my way to pick out my coffin.

My dentist was very kind and extremely sympathetic. He could see by the tears in my eyes, that this was not what I wanted. There just were no other options. He did inform me that after about 6 months or so after I was healed, AND if I could afford it, that I still had a lot of bone and he could place implants for me IF that's what I really wanted. Then he patted me on the head and tried to convince me I wasn't going to want implants after this. Even if I wanted implants instead of dentures, my teeth would STILL have to come out and I would STILL have the healing time before they could be placed. So I decided I would go for it and maybe a miracle would happen and I could wear the dentures while I was healing and then get my really cool implants! Implants by the way are extremely expensive. Probably about $20k for my mouth. Although you can get a few placed to hold your denture in permanently. That was the BAD news.

Now for the Good news!
Today's dentures are NOT your grandmother's dentures!!! After a few weeks of healing I was overjoyed at the results. I could smile, eat, laugh, kiss, scream, whistle, eat steak and do anything I wanted to do and I looked and felt like ME! The best part is that noone other than my closest relatives know about them. I have thoroughly decided that I don't need implants. I felt so foolish and RELIEVED. If I was photogenic I would post pictures for you (but no, sorry I really don't want anyone I know to know that I have them! lol). I still go back every once in a while and get them re-lined.

IT IS TOTALLY WORTH IT.
Please don't suffer anymore.. find help from the directory or take your next tax refund if you have to and do this! Your face will swell for a few days and you won't look anything like yourself and them one morning you'll wake up, look in the mirror and end up doing cartwheels the rest of the day. I now feel like they are my own teeth and I don't even notice them.

So now that I hopefully have convinced you, let me give you some more advice... DON'T put it off. You need to go have an exam and get the impressions done before you lose any more teeth. It's important so that you actually get your own mouth back! If you can afford nothing more than that, at least get your mouth "photocopied."

If you have any questions about my ordeal or just need advice, please feel free to ask! Email me at kim@getfreedental.com!