Well, yep. I'm fairly glad of having dentures. Like you say no more pain from teeth. Got a nice smile back. Never was a big smiley type of person anyway. More often than not I would use little closed mouth smirks.
Finally got dentures from a dentist here local. I tell you it seems he works some form of high level magic. He wants people having very custom made dentures at affordable cost. He wants to help people. I had just a few teeth over ten that were all fouled and would have gone away, needed them out. Needed dentures. He set up all in for $3,000.
My grandmother from my step-father passed on. Her and paw paw treated all the grandkids like grandkids, even those who come by way of other family. Her estate got settled and all the grand kids got a percent. The blood grand kids got a little bigger percent than two of the married in ones. We had no problem with that at all because in life, everything had been fair. We were not being made out as hind tits. This was just how the grand parents wanted, we respected.
At any given my wife took charge over the windfall this percentage was for us. She bought a 'new to her' used truck for around $2,000. Another $1,000 partly went toward her truck and partly helped general living for me & her. Told her, "well mimmy would have said to use it for what we needed, I gets teeth". So, I did and not been happier.
When I was twenty I was enlisted in the navy. My wife laughs at my boot camp graduation picture. "You look like a teeny tiny little ten year old running around in a snazzy boy scout outfit," she says. Guess what she sees is kind of true. I did look ten. I age slow, or did until the docs got me on mainlining testosterone daily now.
"Here take this, be normal."
Yeah sure, riiiight. I fool them, I wear condoms over my spleen. No way they gaining control over my kidney. I need it to remain clear thinking.