# Has anyone seen Lenny Dykstra's false teeth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747 "2019-06-19T15:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/1 "2019-06-19T15:46:38Z")
[EX-MLB STAR LENNY DYKSTRA SPENT 9 HOURS DUMPSTER DIVING FOR $80,000 DENTURES](https://www.newsweek.com/lenny-dykstra-dentures-dumpster-1444666) It seems Dykstra took his $80,000 bone marrow dentures out at Jersey Mike’s subshop to eat his sandwich, left the shop and forgot his dentures, which he had wrapped in a napkin. When he went back, the table had been cleared and the napkin tossed. So Dykstra and a friend spent hours going through the Dumpster, but finally found the dentures. And you think you have problems? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/2 "2019-06-19T16:23:12Z")
What the hell are “bone marrow dentures”? ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/3 "2019-06-19T16:29:57Z")
What a guy! Bragging about being a pioneer (!) in the use of steroids in baseball! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/4 "2019-06-19T16:35:36Z")
You’d think at that price they’d be insured! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/5 "2019-06-19T16:54:12Z")
Saw the story on Fark. The real bonus points is that he was getting help from a wrestler called Sprinkles the Clown. This tale is pure Mad Libs. Name an ex MLB player. Name an object. … ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/6 "2019-06-19T17:17:09Z")
Who pays $80K for dentures you can’t eat with? Seems counter-intuitive. And stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/7 "2019-06-19T17:40:52Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Who pays $80K for dentures you can’t eat with? Seems counter-intuitive. And stupid. Who has $80K to spend on dentures and then eats at Jersey Mike’s? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/8 "2019-06-19T17:41:47Z")
If you’re gonna spend that kind of money, why not just go ahead and get implants? ---
**Author:** ![Helmut\_Doork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@Helmut\_Doork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helmut_Doork)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/9 "2019-06-19T17:43:28Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Who has $80K to spend on dentures and then eats at Jersey Mike’s? Article says they were done gratis by a dentist who was or is a fan. Dykstra probably doesn’t have $80.00 at this point- Sprinkles more than likely was paying for the subs. eta: photo of Sprinkles > **[Meet Sprinkles the Clown, Lenny Dykstra’s dumpster-diving pal who helped find...](https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2019/06/who-is-sprinkles-the-clown-meet-lenny-dykstras-dumpster-diving-pal-who-helped-find-the-80k-dentures.html)** > > Sprinkles is the N.J. native and part-time Uber driver who met the former MLB star outside a Jersey Mike's ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/10 "2019-06-19T18:28:02Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you’re gonna spend that kind of money, why not just go ahead and get implants? Implants don’t work for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/11 "2019-06-19T18:39:19Z")
I thought you were supposed to be able to eat while wearing dentures? Have all those commercials with elderly people biting apples and chomping corn on the cob been lying to me? ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/12 "2019-06-19T23:11:45Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I thought you were supposed to be able to eat while wearing dentures? Have all those commercials with elderly people biting apples and chomping corn on the cob been lying to me? dentist here. No, there are plenty of good dentures and the wearers can eat anything. Not all dentures are made well and even ones made well don’t change over time while the mouth does. Also the patient may not have gotten new ones or adjustments to the old ones. Disclaimer I haven’t made a denture in over 12 years and never liked doing them. I’ve never heard of bone marrow dentures. Googled it and the only thing that keeps coming up are the Dykstra stories. They say they are dentures that are made of bone marrow. Doesn’t make sense since marrow is porous and holes in dentures are not a great thing. I am sure it is something else but I can’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/13 "2019-06-19T23:55:08Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Not all dentures are made well and even ones made well don’t change over time while the mouth does. Also the patient may not have gotten new ones or adjustments to the old ones. Disclaimer I haven’t made a denture in over 12 years and never liked doing them. But those don’t cost $80K. Come to think of it, WHY did those cost $80K? Does the marrow come from unicorns? ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/14 "2019-06-20T01:10:47Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But those don’t cost $80K. > > Come to think of it, WHY did those cost $80K? Does the marrow come from unicorns? I can’t fathom any denture costing 80K. I’m at a loss on what they are. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/15 "2019-06-20T04:34:12Z")
I am sorely tempted to call bullshit on this. He took out his dentures to GUM a sub sandwich? Does Sprinkles the Clown know the Heimlich? And bone MARROW is spongy, reddish, living tissue. Yup. Sounds like bullshit to me! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/16 "2019-06-20T05:32:12Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > I can’t fathom any denture costing 80K. I’m at a loss on what they are. I don’t know what solid platinum dentures would weigh, but $80,000 would buy close to 7 pounds of it. (Probably not enough to buy set of diamond ones like Cohen the Barbarian’s, though.) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/17 "2019-06-20T12:59:22Z")
Is it possible they were made of some material that was meant only for looks - something that isn’t structurally sound, or that stains easily? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/18 "2019-06-20T14:00:00Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you’re gonna spend that kind of money, why not just go ahead and get implants? If you’re gonna get that kind of money, why not get someone who will chew your food for you? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/19 "2019-06-20T14:21:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you’re gonna spend that kind of money, why not just go ahead and get implants? Perhaps, like me, he had implants, and they failed. And who has to take his dentures out to eat a sub??? ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-lenny-dykstras-false-teeth/835747/20 "2019-06-20T15:29:49Z")
And who doesn’t clear their own table at Jersey Mike’s?