PoliGrip Denture Adhesive

I've got falsh teef and don't mind admitting it (Hang on I'm dwibling, let me put them in!)

Imagine this scenario, actually 2. First (I wont be too graphic) Violent ex-partner, full can of beer, Emmas face! That wasn't too bad was it? Well, the enduing 2 crowns and 8 root fillings after all the nerves touched each other was!
Oh and the incompetent dentist who cracked both the teeth the crowns were attached to!

Second - Yet another incompetent dentist who managed to send the poison in the abscess above my tooth into the bones of my fact (damn painful!), hence having to have the whole tooth out and whole area cleaned.

So there I am, 3 teethless, I wouldn't have minded but they were all at the top in the front. Out of the 4 only one is real, the rest are missing. Now if I wanted to go on Jerry Springer posing as a trailer trash inmate I would have been delighted, but I didn't so I wasn't.
My delightful dentist then fashioned me a bridge with the missing teeth on it, an absolutely delightful thing. So there I was, 26, with a denture plate. But what was the alternative? Scaring the kids with my hang tooth, auditioning to be the nasty witchy woman in Snow White? No siree!

Now we're a couple of years later, I'm used to the thing (although my partner has never seen me without it, kinda destroys the mystique!). Its slipped occasionally but thankfully never into a glass of wine or bowl of soup. I was always worrying about it slipping when I kissed someone, but no complaints (Now I know what you dirty lot are thinking!) Bt while the rest of me has gotten a bit broader it seems me gums have got thinner! And with a trip to Alton Towers looming I was really relishing the view of my dentures flying through the trees after spinning round the corner of Nemesis.
So I summoned up my pride and snuck to the aisle I'd normally seen occupied by members of the older generation.

I was astonished by the range of denture creams available. I was gob smacked (nope, that was why I was here in the first place!) And then I remembered the adverts, that jolly woman who can know eat apples. So that made my decision, Poli-Grip. Then the flavours, original, mint and unflavoured. I'm not huge fan of mint and they haven't come up with a chocolate flavour so it was the unflavoured one for me.

And yes, I was embarrassed and insisted on a supersize bag to wrap it up in!

But getting it home I was pleased to see that it just looks like a tube of toothpaste and about the same size so I wasn't too embarrassed about keeping it in my bag.

And of course I then had to try it. I have to say its rather pink and squishy. It reminds me of a load of squished up condoms! Now what you do if squirt it onto the denture and hold firmly for a couple of seconds. And it does take a bit of practice, too little and the denture falls out again, too much and the stuff squidges all over the top of the plate and goes everywhere!

The stickability is great, this can really be demonstrated if you do use too much and end up with some between your lip and your gum. Many is the happy times I've had to attempt to peel the two apart. I suppose that is a good thing though. Its definitely long lasting and handles a full days eating and drinking. Sometime towards the end of the day and you are going to be eating something a bit chewy or tough its worth giving it a top up. There's nothing worse then being faced with a nice juicy steak and finding you haven't put you gum sticky stuff on. They've certainly never fallen out when I've used it and I'm definitely confident when screaming my head off when facing a vertical drop on Oblivion.

And the taste is very nondescript which is just the way I want it. I'm not a huge fan of mint, I'd rather taste the food I'm eating rather than taste the stuff I'm using so that I can eat it. Does that make sense?

It does cost £1.89, but I quite frankly thinks its a small price to pay for avoiding public humiliation!

P.S
Nor are we going to play 'spot Emmas false teeth' at the Bristol Meet!!