dental flipper - any experience?

My son has one. He can eat with it and should NOT sleep with it (but does). He's had this latest one for about 3 years and it looks great. We have to wait until he's at least 18 to put a permanent tooth in. Did your dentist not want to do that?

   I had one before I got my implant for my upper front tooth. I hated it. It felt too big for my mouth and was very uncomfortable. I needed to be toothless for almost a year until the oral surgeon  Built up the bone and it healed enough for the implant. I have never regretted this implant though. If you can get one do it.

I have one for my two front lower teeth. To be perfectly honest, I hate the thing, and only wear it when leaving my house! I have had a lot of bone loss and don't have enough bone to support an implant. Mine is just ill-fitting, have to use that paste stuff to keep it in so I can talk and eat properly.

I had one. It fit great, no problems but 2 months after I got it, the teeth that the metal wrapped around and the teeth touching the fake ones rotted beyond repair. I ended up with dentures anyway. My dentist said that's always a possibility, just never saw it happen so fast. Between the medications I take and having bad teeth anyway, it was a recipe for disaster. Luckily, my dentist was kind enough to take what I had paid for the flipper and apply it towards the cost of the denture. For me, I was tired of the toothaches and it was more cost effective to just go with dentures. I spent $600 to get remaining teeth pulled and for the denture. It would have cost thousands to fix what teeth I had left. On the flip side, my grandma has had one for nearly 70 years with no problem. At 91, the 2 teeth on her flipper are the only ones she's missing.