dental lessons

Tue Apr 30, 2019

today i got my left back molar tooth #19 pulled. it had microfracture which caused my lower jaw to have pain. on xray the area was infected.

this is a major chewing surface. largest surface in the lower jaw.

so i wanted to get an implant.

i just learned i needed a bone graft. the dentist explain they use sterilized human bone from a cadaver

looking at the x-ray he was skeptical he could do the bone graft on the same day as the tooth extraction, due to possible infection.

but once he removed it, it came out easily and neatly and he put the bone graft then stitched it closed.

he, like previous dentists injected a needle into my jaw. he said he could see the previous needle insertions.

the initial insertion of the needle was painful, but then it quickly got numb, and I'm numb as i type this.

i've previously learned of tooth resorption, which i was told is an autoimmune disease that destroys the tooth. i had a root canal for that one.

the 2 molars i've had extracted i learn the bone has thin to the point that an implant is not possible with out something he called a sinus transplant.

he said i had 2mm bone and i need 10 mm, so a surgeon can remove bone from my sinus and put it in my missing tooth, for around $1500, then do a normal dental implant. plus this takes time.

he told me i have a new cavity based on xrays and i need to get that fixed asap or i'll have another root canal or lost tooth.

so after the bone graft, then implan then abutment and crown.

so my future is more dental pain and dental expenses.

Get well soon.

searchinGirl wrote:Get well soon.

thanks

i have another cavity that needs filling i learned about.


what i learn from several dentists,

if you don't treat a cavity and it hits your pulp

by the time you feel pain

too late.

you need a root canal.

btw mr cruel videotaped, by himself, his victims