Hi Ed,
They only left me with 12 teeth, 6 upper and lower. I have an upper and lower partial that snap into place. I showed this to Susan when we were in Vegas. They capped my 4 eye teeth and put a ball and joint device on them whic used to anchor the partial in place. Works very well. Don't remember name of it, but can look it up if you need me to.

Carol,
As I mentioned above, my four eye teeth were capped in 1998. No problems. My remaining 4 uppers were capped last April. No problems yet. My remaining lower 4 will be capped this year. Hubby, Charles, had just about every tooth in his mouth capped 4 years ago and he has had nor problems. As to chewing, neither of us have had any problems. I had my temps for over a year due to problems with getting the permanent ones exactly the way I wanted them. I had one fall off, natually while on vacation, but just went to dentist to have it reglued. So you should be able to chew away unless doc said otherwise.

Take care,
Eileen