Dentures??

   Hello Folks!! I so enjoy your posts.   As or since you have lost the weight , have any of you had your dentures start flopping and not fitting good?   I know it has been a year and over 100 lbs.  but sometimes it takes me awhile to catch on.  I have never been one to have to use glue and have always been a "teeth player".. the kids on the bus used to love it.  But now I find that they are really loose. Not to the point that they are hurting me , or anything like that.   If I go in to have them looked at.. I know that they will need to be replaced ( I left them in my pocket and they went through the washer (clean but chipped) .    It is just  not an expense I want to handle at the moment.    I was just curious how this had affected others and how they have handled it.   Thanks all. I really enjoy you  all.  Alice

I am laughing my ass off and not at your expense but remembering my dearly departed and missesd mother's teeth.  She used to carry her's in her huge black purse and one day, after we had stopped for a meal at a truck stop, she put them back in her purse but accidently put them with some papers that we tossed into the dumpster.  Well, on our way home, she, thankfully, gets pulled over and realizes, when she went for her teeth, that they were gone. We drove fifty miles back to the truck stop and your's truly was held face down in the dumpster until I found her teeth.  There they were, wrapped in a blue tissue just waiting to be rescued. 

I didn't realize that our gums would shrink.  Or, do they?

Alice, I don't wear dentures, but remember after my dad had a heart attack, and lost a good deal of weight, he complained of the same thing.  I stands to reason that as you lose weight, everything shrinks, including your gums. Dad was (he passed away 8 years ago) a character with his dentures.  He'd sit at the dinner table and lift them with his tongue.  Didn't bother me, but my sister would almost .  When he died, the nurse at the hospital handed my sister a clear plastic bag containing dad's belongings.  Wouldn't you know the "TEETH" were in the bag quite visible.  Sister gagged, threw the bag in my direction, looked at dad's body lying on the gurney and said, "Gee thanks dad, something to remember you by!" Debbie

Debbie, my mother used to do that sticking her teeth out on her tongue and while I got a hoot out of it, my younger sister would just about die.  In fact, she still talks about Mama embarrasing her by sticking those teeth out.  I say, get real. LOL

  ALICE  SORRY TO SAY BUT THEY SHRINK AND MINE SHRUNK BAD..... I HAVE LOST WEIGHT BEFORE ON MY OWN WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND THEY SHRUNK THEN. I HAVE HAD DENTURES SINCE I WAS 21 YEARS OLD.. LACK OF CALCIUM AND WHEN I WAS PREGNANT AT 16 AND 21 THOSE KIDS SUCK THE CALCIUM RIGHT OUT OF ME SO MY TEETH WERE THE FIRST THINGS TO FEEL THE LOSS.  I KEEP MINE GLUED IN TIGHT.                 GOOD LUCK AND HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND.

I don't wear dentures but these stories have me in stitches!!! Guess I am glad my teeth are in good shape and still with me!!    Hugs, connie d