FALSE TEETH/The Dreaded NHS Dentures

Yve62 I don’t have any experience or knowledge to offer but that sounds just awful. You poor thing. I’d keep phoning until they give you an appointment just to make you go away!

Good dentists can get a good fit.

There’s a good reason that my brother in law calls false teeth corporation clackers! If you go private what you are paying for is time, time to make them fit properly and hopefully time to make the false teeth match your own! Can you see if there is a private false teeth maker? They know what they are doing but they do cost.

Keep phoning. Surely no good clinician can let a patient suffer the way you are doing. Good luck.

If a dentist can do good impressions for private dentures then they should do the same for nhs patients!

My daughter has similar issues and finally found an old gentleman who has a practice at home as a dental technician ( his lifetime career) . He made a far thinner, far more superior set of dentures to any from the NHS and he charged no more than the NHS .

He’s never going to be allowed to stop :-)

Be wary of private denture practices promising wonderful results. I paid almost £3000 for dentures that gave me nothing but problems.

There are alternatives available to the old fashioned type of dentures, but they are often not available on the NHS, and are quite expensive. These include Implants and Bridges, which fill in the gaps between your own remaining healthy teeth, rather like a Crown does, but can be used to bridge the voids between the healthy teeth remaining, or implanted into your jaw itself. They are certainly better than having the traditional dentures with a 'Roof Plate' or the type that sit directly onto your gum.

Yve62 has already said in the OP that she isn’t suitable for implants, JuliaM.

I have partials on both upper and lower - the upper was made by a private denture practice about 10 years ago, and it has been excellent (I also have a 4 unit bridge and required a well-fitted partial that wouldn’t compromise the bridge, which I wasn’t confident my dentist could supply). It WAS expensive, but worth the expense.

In contrast, I had a private lower partial made by my dentist which I’m not happy with, it was uncomfortable, and not nearly such good materials used, as it stains quite badly.

I'd question the dentist as to why he believes a private set of dentures would be any better than the Nhs ones when the same dentist and technician are producing them. You pay for dentures you can wear and he has a duty to ensure they are a proper fit. It doesn't matter how many times he has to adjust them to get them comfortable.