I had friend with dentures who said he could pleasure a woman in ways we toothsome guys could never hope to. Any women here who can testify to that?
Don’t get dentures unless you actually need them. Mine cost about 1200 each for the top and bottom (including the extractions) . I got a temporary ( to be inserted as soon as the teeth were pulled) and a permanent ( impressions taken a couple of weeks later after my gums healed). I’ve known people who only got one, and I guess it’s cheaper, but I’m not willing to be toothless should I ever need a repair. There’s a adjustment period- for each denture, so that when I went from partial to full I had to adjust to the temporary and then again to the permanent. My personal experience is that I always have difficulty eating and speaking while I’m adjusting, and one time, the permanent denture made me gag so much I continued to use the temporary for a few more weeks. I can’t chew gum, and even though they fit well, certain foods give me problems. I avoid seeds and bread with a hard crust- because sometimes a seed or a bit of crust will get caught under the denture and it’s as annoying as hell. The dentures look and feel better than the loose teeth I had removed, but they don’t feel better than my teeth did before they were wobbly
I got over 5K of orthodontics as an adult. My insurance kicked in 1500.00 and my orthodontist worked out a monthly payment plan for the balance. I wore the braces for 3 years, paid about 120.00 a month and it was all paid for when they came off 
(it was also interest free).
Last year, I spent about 500.00 on custom-fitted whitening trays and 800.00 on a porcelain veneer to fix a top front tooth that was very discolored (used my tax return). Altogether - the money I spent on my teeth - SO WORTH IT. My teeth are really really pretty. I spent all of high school smiling behind my hand, now I randomly flip down the mirror in the car to smile at my reflection. It did a lot for my confidence.
I do have to wear top and bottom retainers at night for the rest of my life (once a year, I pay about 100 bucks for an appointment/fitting to ensure they are still…retaining). Still - totally worth it!
This actually tends to be a quick process. Mine fell onto a hard floor and broke one night and the repair was done within a few hours the very next day. I only had to take a single day off from work.
Bridges are different than partial plates–you rarely remove the bridge because it’s just a few teeth spanning an opening. A partial plate has extra stuff that, in the case of uppers, goes across the roof of your mouth. Wearing it at night ruins the good tissue of the roof of the mouth over time.
It doesn’t hurt to take out the false teeth. But it isn’t fun to get them put on your raw bleeding mouth immediately after they pull the real ones. And for a few days it sucks to be you.
I’ve only had my plate for two years and I need a re-line because of my stupid jaw and it’s unwillingness to maintain bone. :mad: And my plate was an experiment in fitting because of the teeth I had removed. I have a wanky prong system that holds it in, and over time the prongs get loose. Unfortunately, implants are not ever going to be an option for me, even if I could afford them. And bridges destroy the teeth next to them, which in my case would be ruining good teeth to fill in gaps–I’d rather have the plate.
Yes, I can testify that is bullshit. My first husband had an upper plate (got for graduation of high school :eek: ). There was no plus to him not having his teeth in. And a huge minus when he had a wreck, split his plate and wouldn’t get it fixed and TMI: He pinched me in a very sensitive spot with his plate of evil during a rare bout of oral sex.