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LittleLynnie
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I'm even panicking while writing this and fear that a dental issue might tip me back into needing to take anti-depressants again (took them for anxiety only, not depression, for about 1 year, 6 years ago).
I had 6 dental implants in my lower jaw. All placed at different times and not to originally hold an implant-supported denture, which they do now. My implant supported denture only extends back as far as the implant with crown that remained intact on one side and a natural tooth with crown on top on the other side. My denture includes about 7 teeth that span that gap and clip onto the few implants at the front. I have lost two of my six implants to peri-implantitis, and am currently treating one more with antibiotics that aren't yet working (have had two different drugs over the last 10 days and will be calling my dentist for yet another, later today). Hopefully, a new antibiotic will do the trick soon and remove the infection which is causing me pain. Bizarrely enough, the pain is exactly like that from a real tooth, primarily triggered by biting down on it, or food banging up against it.
When looking at an x-ray from 11 days ago, there is a LOT of bone loss around the implant, and while the dentist thought that we could remove it and place something new either behind or in front of it (with or without augmentation), I am TERRIFIED that the loss will continue, even after the infection is resolved and there will then be a gap between my good bone on either side. Is that even possible? Can one have a jaw bone at the back, then a short gap and then more jaw ahead of it? This is really freaking me out and I'm trying to come up with a long-term plan for going forward. If my remaining implants aren't lost to infection, I could then just leave this space alone and remove my last natural tooth (with crown) on the other side, so that I could get a full bottom denture fitted that could clip onto those front implant posts.
My bone loss question really is this. If I get a full bottom denture, and am using that to bite with all day, every day, will that enable the bone loss to stop? I'd read that biting action is needed for bone not to dissolve, so will a denture provide enough "action"? Also, would augmenting that area as the implant is removed help, even if I don't plan to place another implant? Could a bone graft repair the area even if it doesn't receive another implant to adhere to?
I'm way more upset about this than I should be, or that is good for my health, so I hope that a dentist can put my mind at ease until I see my dentist on March 2nd. I will be calling his office today to leave a message about the anti-biotic not working, but can't really explain everything above on his message machine.
I had 6 dental implants in my lower jaw. All placed at different times and not to originally hold an implant-supported denture, which they do now. My implant supported denture only extends back as far as the implant with crown that remained intact on one side and a natural tooth with crown on top on the other side. My denture includes about 7 teeth that span that gap and clip onto the few implants at the front. I have lost two of my six implants to peri-implantitis, and am currently treating one more with antibiotics that aren't yet working (have had two different drugs over the last 10 days and will be calling my dentist for yet another, later today). Hopefully, a new antibiotic will do the trick soon and remove the infection which is causing me pain. Bizarrely enough, the pain is exactly like that from a real tooth, primarily triggered by biting down on it, or food banging up against it.
When looking at an x-ray from 11 days ago, there is a LOT of bone loss around the implant, and while the dentist thought that we could remove it and place something new either behind or in front of it (with or without augmentation), I am TERRIFIED that the loss will continue, even after the infection is resolved and there will then be a gap between my good bone on either side. Is that even possible? Can one have a jaw bone at the back, then a short gap and then more jaw ahead of it? This is really freaking me out and I'm trying to come up with a long-term plan for going forward. If my remaining implants aren't lost to infection, I could then just leave this space alone and remove my last natural tooth (with crown) on the other side, so that I could get a full bottom denture fitted that could clip onto those front implant posts.
My bone loss question really is this. If I get a full bottom denture, and am using that to bite with all day, every day, will that enable the bone loss to stop? I'd read that biting action is needed for bone not to dissolve, so will a denture provide enough "action"? Also, would augmenting that area as the implant is removed help, even if I don't plan to place another implant? Could a bone graft repair the area even if it doesn't receive another implant to adhere to?
I'm way more upset about this than I should be, or that is good for my health, so I hope that a dentist can put my mind at ease until I see my dentist on March 2nd. I will be calling his office today to leave a message about the anti-biotic not working, but can't really explain everything above on his message machine.