My daughter called me yesterday. She went to the dentist and they pulled all her lower front teeth. Then when she went in to get her partial put in, the dentist said, "Now, you do realize these are just for looks and not for eating, don't you?" So she's supposed to take out the partial to eat. What??? She said she would have thought twice about getting the extraction if she had known that. What's with this? I think she should have been told ahead of time that she'd have to take them out. Now she feels too self-conscious to even eat out or have friends see her eat.

This doesn't make sense at all to me. I know lots of people who have a partial and certainly do not take them out to eat. They might have to be careful but they don't take them out.

They can't eat an apple without cutting it in slices and/or they cut the corn off of the cob and things like that. But that's no biggy.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I've never heard of anyone having to take out a partial to eat. I don't blame her for feeling upset and that they should have told her before she had the extractions because at least she could have gotten a second opinion that way.

I would be really ticked off! That's just not right to withhold that info till after the extraction.

And I cannot believe that it's true. You don't see people taking their partials out so that they can eat

Well, she's got no reason to tell me that if it weren't true and her partner was there with her, so they both heard it. She's 35 years old. I'm trying to get ahold of her to ask her to call the dentist to double-check to be sure she heard right.

Yes, I'm definitely unhappy that they didn't tell her till it was a done deal. She wouldn't have done it if she had known, she said. She'd have gone for a second opinion, I'm sure.