Hope!

I haven't posted here for a while because my dentures were in the shop but I want to give those who, like me, had been fighting with different adhesives and basically just suffering with trying to eat and keep your bottoms in.

I have literally spent $100's trying different adhesives, some exotic ones picked up by a friend traveling Europe, and had just started looking into implants as I couldn't imagine fighting with trying to eat the rest of my life.

My denturist lead me to believe I had to relearn how to eat differently. I was also supposed to relearn how to speak since I've had a lisp I couldn't shake. This has been going on since March 2025. But why would I question her since I don't know any different. I've never had dentures before (perms btw).

The new dentist I went to for a consultation in implants was very honest and told me the bite was so far off there was no point looking further into implants until my dentures were fixed properly.

He took new impressions, for which he did not even charge me, and essentially had my teeth rebuilt from scratch. I wasn't thrilled with having to go through the whole process again but man, was it worth it.

I've learned now that if you're dentures are designed and fit properly, you don't need to mess around with all the adhesive experimentation, not to mention, I don't have to learn a new way to eat. I can eat like a normal human and my bottoms don't pop out. I can drink hot coffee. And they don't hurt at all. The tops need no adhesive whatsoever. And if I'm not trying to eat anything too challenging, I can get away without adhesive on the bottoms without having them flop around when I speak.

And no lisp anymore either so after being lead to believe all these issues were me and I had to get used to them, I discover I was being gaslit over poor fitting dentures.

So if any of my issues sound familiar to you, stop the suffering, stop believing that YOU have to adapt. You don't. You have ill fitting dentures.

I could've gone the rest of my life fighting with them, paid thousands more for implants (which I don't think I'm going to need now), and all because I wouldn't have known better. Demand your denturist get your teeth perfect, (or go elsewhere if you can), cause none of us should be having these issues.

Maintain hope cause it's NOT you. I hope this helps someone so you're not stuck like I thought I was. Very grateful for the new dentist who took the time to fix my dentures even though he probably lost out on implant income.