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It took two years for his mouth to heal enough for two implant stems to be fitted to hold a bottom denture securely in place.

Similarly, a January paper in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology determined that people who use dentures are more likely to have coronary artery disease, strokes, myocardial infarctions, heart failures and type 2 diabetes.

But instead of the chewy caramels that stick to his dentures and my teeth, there was a silver necklace inside.

It found the lack of NHS appointments had led people to drive hundreds of miles in search of treatment, pull out their own teeth without anaesthesia or resort to making their own improvised dentures.

His bleeding gums, lost teeth, and dental pain required costly sets of dentures.