Dentures & BBQ


 
My wife does fine, just cook till tender.
COTC she can do but it's easier to cut the kernels off.
Ribs with a slight tug or FOTB.
Steak / chops, just cut to smaller pieces.
 
Samuel said:
I just got Dentures are my BBQ eating days over?
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NO!

Although dentures take some time to get used to, you should almost be able to eat 2x4s once you've worn them for a while. Some folks take more time to adapt but, as long as you persist, you won't have a problem. If you adopt a defeatist attitude you're doomed.

I had all of my uppers and several lowers pulled when I was in my late 20s. Within a matter of days, I was eating corn on the cob, apples and hard-shell tacos. With the exception of cleaning the dentures, I had almost forgotten they weren't my real teeth.

I do have problems with things like coarsely cracked pepper and some small seeds getting under my lower, now a full plate. I usually know ahead of time, so use a denture adhesive, not to tighten the fit, but to keep the seeds and granules at bay.

My ex is a defeatist and has never been able to wear her lower plate. Just to confirm that it's an attitude problem, she can't even wear her hearing aids!
 
Thanks Bob,
I had uppers and lowers done. I noticed an improvement after 3 days. Yes, it is learning process, but I am looking forward to eating things I was having issues within the past.
 
Samuel said:
Thanks Bob,
I had uppers and lowers done. I noticed an improvement after 3 days. Yes, it is learning process, but I am looking forward to eating things I was having issues within the past.
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Ive always wondered...do they pull all the teeth all at once? Do they put you to sleep first?
 
Ed
They pulled my teeth in 2 days. He would have done it all at once, the shots he gave me shot my adrenaline up and gave me the shakes really bad and I had an issue the first day because I forgot to take my anxiety medication. It went smoother the second day.
It was painful at some points, like when he screwed in the implants. but now the healing begins. I have some Seabond sticking pads for now.
When all is said and done, I will be able use 4x4 implants to snap my dentures into place.
I was awake the hole time
 
I thought that with that type of denture you could eat whatever you want! What did your dentist recommend?
 
I could do 4x4 implants or 4xno implants and no implants. It was not a matter of eating it was a matter of cost. 4x4 being the most expensive. I went the best 4x4
 
Ate BBQ with my Dentures for the first time today. I ate BBQ drumsticks. I was able to eat but I indeed have to cut the meat into small pieces. At the moment I am only using Poligrip to hold my teeth in. It is a 6-month process before the implants are installed and complete. Looking forward to the road ahead. It is a work in progress but at least I was able to give it go.
 
If I were going to have it done, I think I would go to a place that specializes in implants. The scuttlebutt I hear from our dentist's office is that implants are a 1-year process...6 months waiting for the gums to heal after pulling the teeth before they install the screw-in sockets, then another 6 months waiting for that process to heal before installing the dentures. As for price, around $50k for uppers, about the same for the lowers. I get a sense our dental clinic doesn't get much opportunity to do this kind of work and they would love to dive-in, but again I would go to a specialist if it were me.

I prefer dark meat, but I'm not much of a drumstick eater these days...I much prefer the thigh or wing. With everything else there is to eat at Thanksgiving, I can't eat an entire drumstick anyway. Cutting the meat off a drumstick wouldn't bother me a bit, and I think cutting the meat off the bone would be a more polite way to eat anyway.
 
I would agree that implants do need to be performed by knowledgeable professionals. Time also greatly depends on bone grafts, that adds a few months to the process.

Personally, I needed a graft (11 years with an empty space,) 4 months to heal, implant, another 4 months, then abutment & crown. Surgeries were done by an oral surgeon (if you're in the Twin Cities metro, DM me, I cannot recommend him highly enough,) and the abutment & crown were placed by my dentist. It's an upper front incisor, and I'm quite happy with the results. It's nice to be able to eat ribs and corn on the cob again. It does take a little extra dental care around the crown.

I asked both the surgeon and the dentist if they had calibration certs for the teeny tiny little beam style torque wrenches used. "Oh, yes. Wanna see 'em?"
 
Also, have you ever noticed that there are different styles for eating corn on the cob? I eat using the "typewriter" method, several rows at a time, very clean and precise, not much left when I'm done. My wife uses the rotational style and leaves patches of half-eaten areas, it's a shame to see all that corn gone to waste when she's done. Again, I think cutting the corn off the cob is a very good "polite" alternative and you don't get all that corn stuck between your front teeth.
 
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