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No Kell, it doesn't mean that I give up walking around with the tooth brush in my gob. Doing that is just as important, indeed it is probably even more important now that scientists have learnt that dental hygiene, specifically tooth brushing is instrumental in maintaining good blood pressure and hence overall health. Notwithstanding this the new teeth and their structural components commonly known as plate provide a myriad of new crevices and hide holes for chewed food to store for future nourishment. Similar to a cow chewing its cud I can enjoy breakfast muesli right through to lunch. It's preferable however to remove and rinse the denture, rinse the mouth, pry loose with a brush the pieces of food jammed between remaining teeth and massage gums in general paying particular attention to those gums now in direct contact with the denture. You see as this strange gum disease progresses the gum bone erodes for want of a better word, the gums clinging to the retreating bone recede leaving much of the root tooth exposed providing excellent storage areas for food particles. When for whatever reason a tooth is removed remaining teeth once crowded together relax and move like my waistline does into the space provided by loose bracered trousers, into the vacated space. This movement creates even more nooks and crannies, gaps big enough for a curious though eyeless tongue to sometimes finds itself trapped. Truly just as Christopher learned when he once climbed into a cream can, you must remember the way you came in and reverse the process to extract. No, getting around with a tooth brush in my gob is just as important as ever and not just for me. Aren't you glad you asked this question?

Whilst warmed to this subject I should answer a few as yet unasked questions I for one always wanted to ask. Yes it is still very strange to have this what feels from inside like a very large foreign object in my mouth. Strangest is the hardness and unfeeling nature of the hard palate. It's somewhat bionic really. Hot foods and drinks no longer blister this as they once could. The teeth themselves and I suppose gums must have been able to feel and taste for now there is an obvious lack of both. Tasting is now a very stranger mechanism. Any chance I had to become a professional wine taster is shot. The first mouthful of food doesn't start to taste until the chewing is well under way. This has had the unusual and probably healthy result of encouraging me to chew my food for much longer.

Another noticed effect is the tendency to constantly suck on the plate extracting air from between it and the hard palate. I'm trying to train myself not to do this as it has the effect as the day wears on of making the plate taste bad, not at all unlike the taste of stale chewing gum which of course you can spit out. Ar! yes, Spit! I have always prided myself on my expertise at this. Patent illustration of my failure ever to have grown up. Now this skill is lost and I'm doubtful that there is enough time left to re learn. The ball of gob which once I hoiked from the roof of my mouth so expertly gets caught on the back edge of the plate and mostly winds up between it and the real roof of my mouth. Even with the plate out, the absence of the four front teeth has left me a child like novice at this once Olympic level skill.

R

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