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| Is there anyone who can give me advise? I’ve looked all over the internet but I couldn’t find a topic about sax playing and dentures.
I find it hard to believe that there is no one ,who had the same problems as I, especially because it is a well known fact the musicians are tempt to use drugs and some drugs wreck your teeth just like some prescription medicine.
For over twenty years I’ve been taking medicine now and they ruined my teeth. For me is sax playing and every now and then a gig, one of the few things that keep me going on. So if I have to loose that. I want to know beforehand and not find out afterwards. For me its a horror to live in this uncertainty
I have a simple though complex question. Is it possible to play saxophone with a denture? I know people who have a set of new upper teeth and that’s is no problem. But can you play with plastic teeth in the lower half of your mouth? Do you need dental implants?
Please don’t give me the advise to ask a dentist. I already done that I’ve even asked several university hospitals. They didn’t want to give me an answer. They are only interested to lure me to a consult. If I went to every consult , it would have cost me almost the price of a small car.
The major is problem no one really has a clue. Some say it’s possible others say maybe if you’re very lucky. For me is a partial denture no solution. Because I simply can’t afford that |
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| Hello!
I'm not sax player, nor do I have dentures (yet!  ), but this seems like an interesting problem.. so, I searched around Net a bit, and found one related link :
http://www.saxontheweb.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=10508
I hope it will help you! Cheers  |
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| I recently lost most of my top teeth (age, wear and tear and smoking). The replacement dentures are anchored to the two incisors and two molars that remain and I can play both sax and clarinet quite comfortably.
However, before I knew if this procedure was possible or would work, I invested in an EWI (Akai EWI4000S) and can't imagine why I hadn't considered this option earlier - teeth or no teeth. There's a short learning curve (can't rest your fingers on the keys, for example) but with eight octaves and 100 built-in sounds (about 25 of which are OK; the others, in my band at least, are either catered for by guitar or keyboards) it extends my playing range.
Another tip, this time from someone I consulted before the dentures and the EWI. This guy lost his top gnashers and simply turned his mouthpiece upside-down and changed his reed from a 3 to a 1.5. Seems to work for him. |
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