hmmmmmmmmmm skiing. You got me there. Is the invitation still open?? I'll pick up Joy and Amy on my way up, and we promise to be good. Joy will be all talked out by then, we promise! (Actually I DO own a coat....a ski jacket that hasn't been used in far too long!)

Sorry, Katie, we totally hi-jacked your thread. Let's get back to business. I have sent you a personal message, asking you to send me your email address. I have a good photo from a journal, which shows an obturator much like mine, and a healed mouth that is much like mine.

Again, since you asked for my opinion, I gave it. It seems that what you need to do now, depending on the extent of surgery that your husband has had, is to let him get over the trauma of the surgeries he has already had, and the trauma of the reality of his situation, and learn that he can adjust. But to go back into a surgery now seems very difficult to imagine. Of course, I don't know his situation.

How many teeth did he lose to the surgery? How many does he have remaining? How large is the opening in his palate? all of these are issues to consider when determining whether or not an obturator will be satisfactory.