“My awareness of my aged relatives’ struggles with dentures must have come at an impressionable age. Consequently, I’ve always had a dread of having to have false teeth, and had carried on ‘making do’ with compromised dentition for years. But then the last of my large upper teeth was extracted and I had to give in to good advice ...

Dr Harrison told me that my remaining teeth were unlikely to be able to withstand the added strain now being put on them for long. The support of a denture was needed to replace the missing upper teeth.
And so, my lower teeth were prepared to receive the new arrival and a bridge was provided over a gap of long-standing. Great care was taken in adjusting the bite.

And the result? Well, the denture proved to be comfortable from the beginning. I forget it’s there. I have a full set of teeth for the first time for perhaps 30 years or more. And I bite into anything that I need to. Still with a little care at present, but I expect to become more abandoned with time!

I had always thought of the coming of false teeth as confirmation of old age. But it hasn’t been for me. I actually feel younger...well, perhaps not all over. But my teeth feel younger.”