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Originally Posted by HarryM1BYT
As said, I received a temporary full upper denture, ready made which went straight in after extraction. Then some while later the permanent one, once the gums had settled.
It certainly felt absolutely massive in my mouth, but once in it felt stable and looking in the mirror my face looked fine. My dentist said to persist with it, keep it in all the time, it would settle in and begin to feel normal - He was right.
The gums do shape themselves some way to conform to fit a denture, so keeping it in despite how it feels, helps.
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I wish it were that simple Harry, mine is in fact too big for my mouth, even the specialist at the hospital commented on how big it was, he said it would be best to go back and have another one made. The denture had cut/rubbed my gums raw to the point of seeing bone (even with adhesive).
The denture was already too big from the word go, and now its been 7 weeks since the upper extractions, its bigger than ever. I don't understand why my dentist said to come back in 3 months for a reline, relines should happen within the first 3-6 weeks after extractions, at least 2 relines within the first 6-8 weeks.
You would actually think this so called immediate denture was made for a different mouth, someone else's denture. As said, my immediate denture wasn't immediate, I didn't receive it until 4 weeks later. The dentist messed up the impressions which made the whole process take longer, so by the time I received teh denture, my swelling and bone had already changed far too much for it to fit.