Any denture wearers out there? I have questions.

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4. Not (full) dentures, but partials:

A lifetime of being a wuss about dental tinkering ended up being a mouthful of *neglect* - so a year ago it turned into laser (something or other, deep cleaning?) and a couple of extractions. The plan (theirs, not mine) was supposed to be for (implants?), but all this was over a couple to three months and the dental dude and his staff gathered from my body language that I just wasn't in with it and just was waiting for a convenient stopping place to bail out. So he proposed the partials, which had the added attraction of cutting the total expense in half.

The actual experience of daily use has been of becoming what everything revolves about. After the morning routine of diabetes testing, pills, coffee and cereal - *then* comes the flossing, brushing, mouthwashing and putting on the partials. I've gotten to the point of saying, my day BEGINS when I've got the partials on.

The extractions have made room for there to develop room for gaps, such that toothpick and flossing are a necessity after eating, and I remove the partials for eating and only replace them after the clean-up.

The final ritual of the day is to stash away the partials in a lidded container with hot water and Efferent overnight. In the morning I rinse the container and fill it with hot water plus anti-bacterial dishwashing soap for the day.

Well, that's my big self-disclosure!1