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MountainMama
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I got my flipper today. I have my consult with the oral surgeon tomorrow for the extraction and bone grafting for my front tooth. I am absolutely terrified.
I look at the flipper and wonder if it will fall out while I am talking. Obviously I can't try it on as I still have the tooth. I see where the plastic curves around each upper tooth, but will it stay in? I had thought they had a metal hook or something on one set of teeth. It
I was too nervous at the dentist's today to ask. This front tooth extraction has got me more terrified than any other work I have had done. I barely was able to listen to them tell me how to take care of it.
Here is what it looks like.
It also made me nervous that the same lab that made this made my nightguard, which I also got today. It didn't fit right, and the dentist had to make all kinds of adjustments. He told the hygienist he was never using that lab again.
I look at the flipper and wonder if it will fall out while I am talking. Obviously I can't try it on as I still have the tooth. I see where the plastic curves around each upper tooth, but will it stay in? I had thought they had a metal hook or something on one set of teeth. It
I was too nervous at the dentist's today to ask. This front tooth extraction has got me more terrified than any other work I have had done. I barely was able to listen to them tell me how to take care of it.
Here is what it looks like.
It also made me nervous that the same lab that made this made my nightguard, which I also got today. It didn't fit right, and the dentist had to make all kinds of adjustments. He told the hygienist he was never using that lab again.