Shikosha Dental Lab, Portland

Years ago when i got my first partials i didn't know how they were supposed to look like. Done by a Japanese doctor to whom i was refereed by a doctor who i was refereed to by a "Russian" colleague of Angela at GE (Sentrol) i guess. Dr. Timothy N. Tanada, year 2000. Since i didn't have money to make crowns he reconstructed some of my teeth by... feeling them. Partials made with plastic and metal, were quite a work of art and costed 4000 dollars. In fact my dental history is so long, i could write a small book about it.

Dr. Negru @2004 tricked me or persuaded me whatever and put veneers (3/4 crowns) on all my remaining teeth and adjusted the partials to them. An over 10000 dollars job. His wife and assistant, Dorina, looked like Shania Twain or Alexandra Ungureanu. He made a comment saying that Tanada did a sub-standard job on my teeth and his name being Timothy, a Christian name.

I know during my last job in 2006 i was still wearing those and i was bleeding. Around 2009 got some new partials done by a doctor Waters in Beaverton. He said from the start he would not be able to match the quality of the previous ones.

The last two ones that i still have were done by dr. Grenzer in Tigard at a Japanese laboratory named Shikosha. They look, especially last ones, really strange. The walls of the dentures that surround the gums are very deep and they interfere with emptying of saliva from salivary glands or even pump food in there while i eat.

First, the upper ones were so big (deep), they were touching the soft palate of my mouth. So i didn't wear them for a few month or until i was sure the construction work in that building was finished (much dust, i saw irritation on the face of his assistant, who looked like once sexiest woman on planet, Jennifer Aniston. Not anymore, sic transit but still with the attitude). So i went at the beginning of July and tried to have them fixed and started wearing them. Trouble is, in about one month i started to have these huge bulges on the side of my mandible where the parietal glands are.

So first, trying to find the cause by elimination i stopped wearing those. In a few days the bulges started to subside and now are almost gone. Possible complications of parietal glands infection is meningitis. On long term, i believe bacterial release from those and from wearing the partials without cleaning them after eating may lead to inflammation of esophagus, stomach with lymph nodes pressing on the common duct, bile and pancreas partial, intermittent blockage, fatty liver diseases, pancreatitis, high blood sugar. Didn't want to write about until i knew the outcome. Bulges are much smaller but not completely gone. This is just an example, mine never got like that. Note the symbolism. Parot.
This is an example found with google










And these are mine, new and old. New have hooks, are much deeper, especially right outer rim.

Updated 11/16

After starting to wear the new partials at the end of July i noticed bulges at both sides of my face, pretty similar with those in the image of this blog post though not so obvious (could mostly feel them by touch, about 1/4 inch thick). I also had dizziness and other symptoms that could indicate increased pressure of the Cerebrospinal fluid including the sound (in my own inner ear of course) similar to that of knocking of a ripe melon when taping the top of my head with the tip of my fingers.

My guess was the new partials and i stopped wearing those, starting an antibiotic course that lasted, with interruptions until today. However i kept using those dentures occasionally and every time the symptoms were coming back, even though on antibiotics.

On October 30 i decided to take action and started trim those, but i've done it in several steps, using sand paper it was a very slow process, until a few days ago when i got to the level of the older ones (though even those are big compared to the previous ones). After i finished adjusted them and filing about 1/4 of an inch of the rims, my symptoms started to ease, especially the headaches and chills after eating. My assumption is the dentures being so tall were interfering with the salivary ducts, pumping food back into those and salivary glands.

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