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What have you lost that is an absolute necessity to replaced

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Libman Mon 11-Apr-22 14:10:53

Serendipity22

*Libman*, ohh noooo !! So easily done, us woman can pop it in a handbag ( or maybe even down the loo if you're so STUPID as moi !!! )

Did he have to trail to the dentist for a replacement?

Yes, they are so uncomfortable and when you eventually manage to take them out its like winning Olympic Gold .

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No, amazingly they found it! It had a good wash though.

M0nica Mon 11-Apr-22 13:20:19

Currently, my credit card

Serendipity22 Sun 10-Apr-22 17:29:01

FLIPPPPPPPPPIN HECKERS Yammy..
I thought my experience was bad enough but ALLLL yours fall under the title of You couldn't write it!...
shockshockshockshock

Serendipity22 Sun 10-Apr-22 17:23:10

Ohhhhhh AGAA4 Thank goodness, I remember my mum ringing me to say she had lost her wedding ring, she was utterly heartbroken, so I can imagine your shock but thank goodness you found it....

Yammy Sun 10-Apr-22 17:17:23

When I was a student I had to have a tooth removed because it was forming inflammation in my gum.
I was told I could have a bridge but would have to have one tooth on a partial plate until the bridge was ready, I couldn't sleep with it in it was so small. I managed to entertain my friends for quite a few weeks.
As I could not eat with it in I accidentally threw it away in the self-service cafeteria and had to go back and go through all the pig swill till I found it.
I was late for swimming jumped in the pool and had to spend the rest of the lesson with it tucked between the cup and my regulation costume.
Sitting watching the rowing eating a Mars bar and as I pulled it out of my mouth my plate came with it.
The piece de resistance was after having a check-up at the Dental hospital and being laughed at by some of DH's friends I exited minus the plate. Walking along a busy shopping street I heard my name and turned to see the young Dentist with my tooth.I put it in and it promptly shot out and missed a road drain by cms.blush

AGAA4 Sun 10-Apr-22 16:47:03

I lost my wedding ring when I was in town. I suddenly realised it wasn't there. I was widowed so I felt so guilty that I had lost it.
I returned to all the shops I had visited but no luck till the last one. I asked without much hope if my ring had been found. I was so relieved when they told me a teenage boy had found it and handed it in.

Serendipity22 Sun 10-Apr-22 16:00:12

Ohhh THATS not funny Maddyone.... glad you replaced them but sorry you lost the originals...... x

maddyone Sun 10-Apr-22 14:09:48

My engagement and eternity rings. They were replaced.

Serendipity22 Sun 10-Apr-22 13:53:27

Hahahahahahaha SORRY EVERYONE but some if these are soooo funny.

I cringed at the thought of trailing off to the sewage works to try numerous dentures until I came across the correct one/ones Hellogirl1. ?

1 thing that settle well with me is the fact I am not alone in this situation. ?

MissAdventure Sun 10-Apr-22 12:19:46

My ex, his daughter and parents, and my girl, grandsons, and I went to chessington world of adventures one year.
Some of the brave ones went on a roller coaster thing, which was like a waltzer car on a track.
It bumped up and span round the first bend, swooped down and hurled off up an to the top, where it broke down, leaving them suspended upside down.
As if that wasnt bad enough, my exes dad then informed them his dentures had flown out on the first bend. grin

Farmor15 Sun 10-Apr-22 12:11:06

She did have a spare one at home.

Farmor15 Sun 10-Apr-22 12:10:36

My mother had a glass eye and one day when she was out at a sale of work, it fell out! With help of others, she searched all around, under tables etc, but no sign. She often wondered afterwards who found it, and if they thought it was a marble?

Hellogirl1 Sun 10-Apr-22 11:22:50

My grandma used to tell a story of having dropped hers down the toilet just as she was flushing. Nothing daunted, she went to the sewage works, they had several sets of dentures that had been recovered, she tried them (YUCK!!) until she found hers, and quite happily took them home!

Serendipity22 Sun 10-Apr-22 09:04:05

Libman, ohh noooo !! So easily done, us woman can pop it in a handbag ( or maybe even down the loo if you're so STUPID as moi !!! )

Did he have to trail to the dentist for a replacement?

Yes, they are so uncomfortable and when you eventually manage to take them out its like winning Olympic Gold .

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Serendipity22 Sun 10-Apr-22 08:58:24

Ohhh hahahaha, its funny ANNOYING but funny.

Yes Luckylegs I too keep this 2nd plate in my zip compartment of my handbag along with my lip gloss and yes, as i feel around for it, its as you say , like jaws, I've never thought of it like that but thats a brilliant description haha JAWS.

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Libman Sun 10-Apr-22 08:38:15

We were on holiday in Greece with my then teenage son and he removed his small retainer( a small clear plate, post brace) and put it in a dish whilst eating. 30 minutes after we had left the restaurant he remembered! We raced back and the very kind staff went through the waste bin to try and find if. It would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack but they eventually did find it. A big cheer went around the restaurant and we left a large tip - much cheaper than a replacement brace.l?

Luckylegs Sat 09-Apr-22 23:36:30

My husband had a tooth on a plate which was uncomfortable, as they always are, so he put it in his top pocket whilst we drove to Faro Airport. We pulled up to enter the drop off area, he rolled the window down to get the ticket, reached into his pocket for his glasses and whoosh! threw the tooth through the window! We looked for it immediately but could never find it. I imagine it had been rolled over by a tyre and was embedded in it or something. We still laugh now to think what if someone found it……….! He got an implant straightaway, never again would either of us try a partial denture. Mine used to live in my handbag and if you reached in for your purse, it was like Jaws waiting for you!

Serendipity22 Sat 09-Apr-22 22:14:19

I would initially say "What????? " but ive no room to talk.... i dont know if i threw it down the loo with the chewing gum or just what... BUT if I did then I can only hope it went round the U bend with the chewing gum... otherwise some poor lady would get a shock with a tooth attached to a plate looking up at her..

Needless to say all this palaver was costly!!!!! Grrrrrr

Callistemon21 Sat 09-Apr-22 22:03:34

I wonder who found it? ?

It reminds me of the time we were swimming around in the Adriatic looking for someone's false teeth that they'd lost in the sea .....

Serendipity22 Sat 09-Apr-22 21:42:57

I know ! I seriously can not bring that memory back as to what actually happened in the loo .... its absolutely left my memory for good....

I do sometimes take it out ( that 1 and the new 1 ) because it gets to feel uncomfortable after a while , so whether WHEN i took it out to scrap the horrible chewing gum off, I felt it a relief to not have it in my mouth I do not know!!! Its literally left any trace of remembering...crazy !!!

MerylStreep Sat 09-Apr-22 21:36:09

And you walked out of the toilet not noticing that you had left your denture in there ? ?

Serendipity22 Sat 09-Apr-22 21:23:25

Ok, so this is a lengthy explanation, but it is necessary.

Dentist pulls a tooth out, upper rear 1 and considering I smile and laugh a lot, the gap was in full view.

I manages to splutter, with a numb mouth that i did NOT want a gap.

6 weeks later i lay prostrate in the dentist chair having an impression for a plate with a lovely new tooth attached thus making me feel whole ( hahaha )

So then a few week after, I am once again in the dentist chair being fit with a lovely new tooth, whoooopeeeee.

Fast forward a few weeks and I am on holiday in New York with my family and my grandson offered me a piece of chewing gum, i take it ... I chew it.... IT ALLLLL STICKS ON MY PLASTIC PLATE !!!! Soooooo considering I didnt want a gob full of chewing gum stuck there all day long, I went to the Ladies in 1 of the tourist attractions we were in, pulled out the plate, prized the horrible chewing gum offfff the plate and returned to the rest of the family ....

Later that evening i thought ohhhhh where is my tooth ???????
Could i remember what i had done with it whilst in the ladies ??????

No.

Soooooo....
Fast forward a few week and THERE I AM SAT IN THE FLIPPIN DENTIST CHAIR AGAIN HAVING ANOTHER FITTING FOR ANOTHER TOOTH.

When the dentist had finished i jokingly announced You could have warned me not to go anywhere near flippin chewing gum

So THAT is is my necessity to replace.

Sorry its a lengthy explanation but I had to paint the picture....
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