I just got new choppers! Ask me anything...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

quick, before the Tylenol 3 kicks in!

[pinboy3niner]

1. What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Congrats on your new teeth!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. thanks!

I'm pretty freakin pleased

[Moondog]

2. Did you do this all at once?

How bad does it hurt?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. nope, just one last one on the bottom

doesn't hurt bad at all right now (just 2 hours)

[olddots]

3. will you get used to them ?

I will never get used to these

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. My tongue feel huge!

Where am I supposed to put it when I chew?

I think I will, the uppers I got 20years ago were easy enough. They say the bottoms are more squirrely tho.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. Here I was gonna give ya a little sympathy . . .

And I got a killer-clown. Nightmares!!



(Hang in there, I know oral surgery is rough.)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. no sympathy needed!

I've been waiting for this day for YEARS!

I went thru all kinds of pain as they would go bad one by one.. now I just have to learn how to talk around them

[TexasTowelie]

5. How much oral surgery did you have?

I had oral surgery to remove my remaining four top teeth in June of last year. I had the lower eleven teeth removed in the middle of November. You should expect the stitches to stay in about two weeks and hopefully the scabs will peel off your gumline in about eight weeks.

I hope that you had some implants placed in the lower jaw. Dentures on the lower jaw are more prone to slipping.

I survived on cream of wheat, baked potatos and the Betty Crocker Bon-Appetit bowls during that time. You might also want to stock up on tabouli and coucous if that turns you on.

You have my sympathies since I know what you've been through.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. I went through the hard part years ago

Had my uppers done 20 years ago, first they pulled the molars, then when those had healed, pulled the incisors and put in the plate.

I lost the bottom ones one at a time over the last 10 years, just barely scraping together enough for extractions. So today was easy, one last canine, already loose.
I couldn't afford the implants, but these will do fine until I can get that done.
I should be able to eat without pain in just a few days

[In_The_Wind]

6. How many shades off from bright white are they?

[pinboy3niner]

7. I'm waiting for the painkiller-induced reply:

"50 shades of gray."

[In_The_Wind]

10. Alrighty then.

If we are talking teeth: 2 or 3 shades off bright white is better,

"50 shades of gray." is way too vanilla for moi.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. I caved to the current trend and went one off

I drink coffee so in a few years they'll be a 3

[In_The_Wind]

14. One shade off sounds good.

That was my choice also. I have fair skin and seldom wear lipstick.
It was the right thing for my face.

[olddots]

11. I made the mistake of asking them to make the new ones look like the old ones

big mistake .

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. We made a little ceremony and dropped the old one in the trash

It felt so good!

I asked for mine to be a little 'uneven' I never had perfect teeth, and I didn't want them to look like dentures. She was trained in Europe and did a lot of tweaking to make them look natural.

[tblue]

18. What will you chop?

May I suggest....

skip to 0:49 -- though you probably already know this song

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. anything I couldn't eat before

I'm tired of soft stuff.

Raw broccoli with ranch dressing is on the list. yum