So, I have a dentist 🦷appointment tomorrow morning and I am a little worried. Mind you, I do not have a tooth in my mouth at this point of my life. They’re all gone. I am going tomorrow to get my new lower denture aligned with my current upper denture. To be honest, I have no idea how this works 🤔🤔. I don’t know if I get to take it home tomorrow or if I have to wait for another step to be completed before I finally own the full set. I want to get them asap so I can start wearing them and start relearning how to speak all over again 🥳.
I’m not too concerned with the whole learning how to eat part. While it will be nice to enjoy a bag of crunchy chips🍟again, I’m more concerned with my ability to speak clearly. F’s and V’s and Z’s are notoriously difficult to enunciate considering that the base mechanism for those letters depends heavily on the teeth. Without teeth, Z’s sound a lot like C’s. F’s like H’s.
The fact that I started with a lazy southern drawl🌾 didn’t help one bit. I’m tired of repeating myself to people because of my lack of teeth preventing me from forming the correct sounds. Tired of not eating crunchy chips, too.
I am SO SO SO ready for my complete denture set. Let’s all cross our collective fingers🤞🏻 and maybe I’ll get to wear them home tomorrow.
Featured image is how I feel I look when I’m talking🙄.