what is this obturator?? five years and 15 surgeries later i am at the end of the yellow brick road and they made me dentures!! Really? i don't have a tongue, how am i to use dentures... i cry every day .. my eyes open and i remember that and become depressed.. i was fine .. well, i was functioning at least. i am about to graduate college, wanna work, wanna find love, get my life back that has been paused. in todays technology you would think there would be some sort of prosthetic tongue.. or device to work with my flap... we're soooo.... close..... i was researching the web for info about alternate methods... when i found this web sight today. I haven't left here since!!! it is a blessing that i found ya'll!! after years of handling it.. thinking i was alone; i discover I am not--jc