Let me give you a bit of advice...whatever you can do within your power to not get dentures, do it. They are a substitute for teeth about like a prosthetic leg is for a real one.   You lose the sense of temperature in food, you lose 75% of your biting force and that is a best case scenario. Now just as soon as I say this someone will come along and say they are great and give them absolutely no porblem. These folks are the exception and not the rule. If I never did another set of dentures it would be entirely too soon.