Denture-wearers and dentists, please help?

When you have dentures made, it always takes time for your mouth to adjust to them. And if you had tori removed, then your mouth will definitely take time to heal, and for the tissues to shrink back and the bone to remodel itself, etc. So there will be some time where they don't feel right.

If it's gone on for a while, and if you're going to have implants made next year, instead of paying for a new set, another option might be to get the dentures relined - since your mouth is changing while it's healing from the extracted teeth and from the removed tori, it's probably only natural that the denture won't feel right, so relining should help them fit better.

Did your dentist do a try-in in wax while she was making the denture? That's like the final inspection or trial, when you can see the teeth that will be used for the denture sitting in place, and voice any concerns you have about them or anything else, before it's sent to the lab to be processed. If you were ok with them then, but you don't like them now, unfortunately there's not much the dentist can do except to remake them at your cost.

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