Well, I don’t know if it helps :-) it’s more than I ever thought about with respect to getting dentures. Ouch! I guess I never thought about how the whole process works. I just thought somehow I’d be all healed up get the dentures and that’s about it. But you have to have the dentures on while you heal? That sounds painful. Did they tell you to start eating right away? LOL, That sounded odd. I don’t mean that they told you not to eat it all, but are you supposed to start using the dentures right away, not just soups and stuff.
So did you only get the top ones since you have the bottom teeth? My worst part is the bottom, which I hear is harder to have the dentures fit right. Figures.
I didn't know squat about it either. My daughter got them but she didn't communicate with me too much during that time so whatever she went through I didn't hear about it until after-the-fact. She had 11 teeth pulled, Twilight Sleep, and she takes more xanax than I will. She came over one day and said how happy she was not to have to deal with any more toothaches. And she's doing well now with that. But she has a heart procedure scheduled for tomorrow that's got me worried. She had a very close call a few weeks ago with a disruption in the beating.
Like you, I went in ready to have them out, let it heal but after the oral surgeon explained they like to have people have the dentures ready to pop right in so the gums will heal to fit the dentures for an eventual better fit and seal so you don't have to mess with fixatives like Polident. I gave that a quick thought and decided if I have any chance of a good outcome, I guess I'll go that route because one reason I put it off as long as I did is I knew I wouldn't like it.
And, yes, you can eat right away. As if I felt like it. Soft foods. I'm still smarting by that remark, feel like a baby, but I NEVER take pain pills. This time when the novocaine wore off sooner than I expected, it hurt really bad. He scraped some bone. And I was afraid to be alone until I was sure I was going to be ok in case I had to go to the ER or something. All previous extractions, you bite on gauze, I never had any problem but once when I swished with water continually without reading the instructions :-(. That time I drove to the drugstore drive up and asked the pharmacy if they could get me some gauze. As I remember she wasn't too happy about it either. So that night I took one pain pill some Tylenol he prescribed. But this time with the dentures over the open sores (I did make sure to ask him to use plenty of stitches), the bleeding (some is normal but if it starts getting darker red, you are to take out the dentures and bite down on gauze for 20 to 30 minutes! Wow, I didn't want to take them out. Bleeding scares me and I hate the taste of blood in my mouth. I've gotten better about some of it otherwise.
The next day I took one more pain pill at one point but the pain was much better and felt I was now I was on the upside with the uppers. But then I did a stupid thing that or the next night. I go to bed late, bedtime routine, went in my room where I keep the light dim, grabbed the "bigger" bottle I was used to, dumped out 2 round pills, and swallowed them down. Oops. those looked and felt a little bigger than my clonazepam for anxiety. I put the pain med in a drawer and hope I don't need any more.
Now I was scared again.; I try really hard not to get too many of some especially blood pressure; some it doesn't matter so much. So just having the paramedics July 4, I didn't want to call 911 with a question for fear they would send someone. So I called Walgreen's and the pharm said just not to take my clonazepam and it would be ok. I was pretty sure I decided that and hadn't so didn't. I was kind of weirded out the next day though.
The bottom is supposed to be worse than the top. They "float", can't be fitted the same, hard to get used to, not looking forward to it. Don't know anyone who has them. But my daughter's good friend, she says she has top and bottom and does fine with them now. It's like you get where you have to do it and decide you will do your best to get used to it.
One little caution. I never thought of it but my regular dr one time further back when he found out I was having a tooth pulled looked at my meds and advised me not to take my daily aspirin the night before. I think aspirin is salicylic acid but I got it confused and thought the acetaminophen in Tylenol was the one to take care about. It's ok. I can take Ibuprofen if only occasional but am not supposed to regularly because of my blood pressure medicine.
Just thought I would mention it; it's because of bleeding, just a precaution. Just thought I'd mention some of it in case it helps. Thanks for being so nice about it.