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How to maintain friendships when dental changes affect social confidence

My friend group has been avoiding our monthly dinners since I got dentures because I'm self-conscious about eating in public and they don't know what to do, so we're all just pretending everything is normal while our friendship slowly dissolves.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Shame creates distance that compounds itself when no one knows how to bridge the gap.

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