Denture misery causing major depression

I'm with Denplan and where I used to live the Dentist was brilliant, I can't say the same as the ones I have now. Just be careful. Look at your agreement carefully and see what you are entitled to for free in your monthly payment.

I'm with Denplan. No choice given, I was just transferred to it by my previous dentist. No complaints though. The monthly fee is reasonable and access to dental care, even in emergency or last minute, is very good.

I was in exactly the same position as you 3 months ago but decided I absolutely had to do something because my son was getting married in December.
I managed to find a sympathetic private dentist who put up with my terror & crying fits and now have my full set of upper dentures and am waiting for my partial lower set.
No point in my telling you not to be so anxious as that wouldn't help you in any way. All I can say is that being able to eat anything I want now after 1 month with my denture is absolute bliss. I can also smile a people instead of hiding my mouth behind my hand. It did take a bout 3 weeks to get used to having the denture in my mouth but now I have no issues.
I couldn't believe how wonderful it felt when I first looked in a mirror once my dentures were fitted so please go and keep your appointment, it will be so worth it

Romola some teeth are inherently worse than others.

I have always seen an excellent dentist - he was a dental surgeon who had a part time clinic - he taught in the the hospital. He prescribed me a flouride wash as a child in the days when this was in a huge brown bottle and had to be even further diluted.

He retired and I went an extra 5 miles to his "best ever student" and later used to drive hours to see her till I found someone nearer home.

I am and always have been pretty diligent with my teeth and they are still rubbish!

My husband, on the other hand, has strong teeth that only ever need a polish.
Our children are a mixed bag. One terrible, two perfect, two in-between.

It's like everything else it seems. Some people just do have stronger teeth.

I'm glad I've been proactive though or I think I'd be in quite a mess.

BlueBelle

Debbiedoo I must have your dentists brother My lovely kind Greek NHS dentist left at Brexit and I have been allocated the dentist from hell Rough, rude not an ounce of empathy never acknowledges I m in the room, talks with his head away from me so I ve no idea what he’s saying I ve asked to be changed and they have taken me off his books but now told me they don’t have another nhs dentist to allocate me to
I too need some attention and no NHS dentist I m really in a pickle maybe I shouldn’t have said anything ( I rarely complain about anything) but his behaviour was awful
My friends husband was given the same dentist and called him a ‘right rough butcher’

You can report a Dentist to the British Dental Association if you're not happy with how you are being treated.
Some years ago I had a filling in a back tooth, the dentist made a dreadful hash of the job, was rough, and made my gums so sore they bled. The following day I was in so much discomfort that I went back to the dental surgery, sought out the practice manager and told her that I needed to get the filling seen to as it was too high, showed her the state of my gums and explained that if the dentist didn't see to the filling straight away that I would be complaining to the BDA............fast forward 30 minutes and the dentist put the filling problem right, apologised for his rudeness, roughness and the damage to my gums. Indeed, he grovelled! Had no problem with him since.