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Hellga
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I have had problems with my front teeth ever since poorly made and inappropriate (as I now know) orthodontics device designed to correct my underbite when I was 7 essentially rubbed holes in my front teeth (8 &9) by the time I was 10 or so, so at the age of 19 or 20 I had to have crowns put in. The first crowns were OK and lasted some 8 years before I decided to replace them for aesthetic reasons (there was an ugly black line between the top of the crown and the gum line). Then I had a couple beautiful crowns that broke because they were placed on old posts that seemed strong but weren't. Then replacement posts broke too, and I was told that this is my last crown option, the next time something goes wrong, I will have to go for implants. Well, #8 root broke and a piece of it pushed through the skin at the end of 2019, so the tooth was extracted on January 13th. I had bone graft put in and gum graft, and got a flipper a couple days later.
My sutures started to come out only a couple days after the surgery. My gum looks pretty terrible now, 5 days out, though swelling is starting to subside, it looks like I have a triangle cut out (there was a hole before the extraction, even, from where a piece of the root poked through the skin) - not sure what happened to the supposed gum graft, will ask my dentist when they reopen on Monday. The flipper hasn't been adjusted yet but feels rather tight and I cannot eat with it - only drink. And I speak with a slight (at least I hope it's slight) lisp. I am sure glad I accepted a job offer before this all happened or I would not feel very comfortable going into job interviews like this! But this is also a complicating factor - I am moving to Boston from New York and will have to find a new dentist there to proceed with the implants.
So I am so worried about all the problems - the gum recession (will it be super-bad or can it get better? will gum graft help? will I have multiple ones?), the implant (I am only 36, I will need that implant to last potentially 50+ years!), the fact that anything can go wrong (though I do have titanium plate and screws in my arm which I broke last year and it has healed beautifully). that I need to find a new dentist in a new city... This is my front tooth, so aesthetics is very important, and I am single and actually hope to find someone to settle down with (started to work on that but then I lost my job and had to start looking for that instead!), and how do I go on dates when I cannot eat anything other than smooth soups? How do I kiss with this thing on? It will be months before implant can be put in given the bone graft... And then I will eventually have to go through the same thing with the other incisor... I should be getting my house in ship-shape for sale and move but instead I have been sitting for 10 days freaking out about all the things that could go wrong and feeling sorry for myself...
My sutures started to come out only a couple days after the surgery. My gum looks pretty terrible now, 5 days out, though swelling is starting to subside, it looks like I have a triangle cut out (there was a hole before the extraction, even, from where a piece of the root poked through the skin) - not sure what happened to the supposed gum graft, will ask my dentist when they reopen on Monday. The flipper hasn't been adjusted yet but feels rather tight and I cannot eat with it - only drink. And I speak with a slight (at least I hope it's slight) lisp. I am sure glad I accepted a job offer before this all happened or I would not feel very comfortable going into job interviews like this! But this is also a complicating factor - I am moving to Boston from New York and will have to find a new dentist there to proceed with the implants.
So I am so worried about all the problems - the gum recession (will it be super-bad or can it get better? will gum graft help? will I have multiple ones?), the implant (I am only 36, I will need that implant to last potentially 50+ years!), the fact that anything can go wrong (though I do have titanium plate and screws in my arm which I broke last year and it has healed beautifully). that I need to find a new dentist in a new city... This is my front tooth, so aesthetics is very important, and I am single and actually hope to find someone to settle down with (started to work on that but then I lost my job and had to start looking for that instead!), and how do I go on dates when I cannot eat anything other than smooth soups? How do I kiss with this thing on? It will be months before implant can be put in given the bone graft... And then I will eventually have to go through the same thing with the other incisor... I should be getting my house in ship-shape for sale and move but instead I have been sitting for 10 days freaking out about all the things that could go wrong and feeling sorry for myself...
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