# How Long Is It \*Possible\* To Keep Your Teeth?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-it-possible-to-keep-your-teeth/665976>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 11, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-it-possible-to-keep-your-teeth/665976 "2013-08-11T22:58:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-it-possible-to-keep-your-teeth/665976/21 "2013-08-12T18:15:21Z")

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> [@rsat3acr](#):
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> Sure I got a sec. Most denture teeth today are made of plastic. Some are still made of ceramic but not too many. Also teeth are not real big. They look large but most are fairly thin. I’m sure it is possible to pass it and not notice it. No way to know for sure short of recovering it unless he wants to try an X-ray or something. I would think being asymtomatic is a good sign but doesn’t mean it isn’t stuck somewhere. I would think that unless it becomes symptomatic he won’t do any thing about it anyway.

Thanks. Still no sign, and he’s getting tired of pooping into a seive. But yeah, we’re not going to do anything about it in terms of cutting him open to retrieve it unless symptoms develop. We were just hoping we wouldn’t have to pay to have a replacement made if we could (very thoroughly clean and) reuse the old one! 😃

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**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-is-it-possible-to-keep-your-teeth/665976/22 "2013-08-12T19:03:39Z")

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no don’t need to retrieve it for reuse. Just take the denture to the dental office and ask them to add a tooth. In most metro areas sould be same day service. Drop off in morning pick up in afternoon. Not sure in rural areas though.

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