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22. The VA once made me a partial that was so bulky I just couldn't use it

Mon Dec 28, 2015, 05:31 AM

Dec 2015

I kept using my old one. Then, while I was visiting Vietnam, an anchor tooth broke.

Vietnamese friends took me to a guy who made me a new partial, very slim and the best I ever had. The guy had a dental chair in his living room. Turned out that during the war he'd been an assistant in an American military dental clinic. After the war he scrounged dental school texts and whatever equipment and materials he could get (thus the dental chair in his living room).

He wanted to charge me 25 bucks. I told him that wouldn't do, and gave him what I considered more reasonable plus something to aid his education and career.

When I go to the VA I'm going to show them the partial this guy made so they might get a clue about that unnecessary bulkiness that people just can't adapt to.

If I were you I'd go back and tell them the teeth they made for you are bullshit and you need some teeth that actualy fit and are usable. Maybe the dentist just has "to get used to" your middle finger.

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