Got my implants today!
 

Dental implants that is.
I now have two titanium rods in my head ;)

Made ya look didn't I? ;)

Did it hurt?

heartbeat...racing...must...think..happy thoughts

Hmm...will withhold dirty comment about another rod in your head cuz I am sweet and innocent.

Yep... :mad:





:winkwink:

and i was all excited :(

Not to get done.. but I was numbed up pretty good. Now about an hour later I'm starting to feel it, but then.. the darvon should take care of that.

that will sure hurt... :(

sounds interesting

OWN UP! Who thought this thread was about other implants??

Got me :)

got me too :thumbsup

:glugglug

PK, can you give us an idea what is involved. What is the cost per tooth? I'm assuming you had a tooth (cap) placed over each rod. You must have good bones because my brother was rejected because he didn't have enough strong bone mass to take the rods.

It sure beats a bridge! Hope the pain goes away soon.:thumbsup

guilty lol

sounds painful

It made me post... :glugglug

ouch...anything dental related is fucking painful

If you had a join here to see button on this thread.... you would have made good conversions on this today...
:thumbsup

I had caps on the two teeth that had been there. I fell when I was about 11 and hit my two front teeth. At the time they told me that one tooth needed a root canal but that the other was fine. 25 years later I found out that the second tooth should of had a root canal also. My dentist feared that if that area ever suffered trauma of any kind (a hit in a fall, a car accident, etc) that both teeth might break off at the root. So they ground both down to nubs and capped them.

That did fine until about a month ago. The second tooth that they couldn't root canal because the root had calcified became absessed. My surest option was to remove the tooth and do an implant. I couldn't see doing one and not the other.

Thursday they removed the teeth ($470) and gave me a 'flipper' $400 (a retainer looking thing with two crowns attached to them) to wear. They drilled into the bone today and inserted the two titanium implants ($3,000). The implants will fuse with the bone in the next 6 to 8 weeks and they they will put the new crowns ($1,500) on the pegs at the end of the implants.

Costs I'm sure vary greatly by region and by dentist. The dentist I am using is very known in the area for implant and reconstructive dental stuff.

front teeth ... OUCHIE !! :(

i've got a crown in front that's had work done to it over the years. that damn novocaine needle feels like a harpoon going in ...

pics!

Ouch....

:helpme

Damn PK, you are a tease!!

It's my understanding that they can now do bone grafts to build up enough to be able to do the implants. I'm not sure how much more that would be but maybe that's an option for your brother.

I was going to post that!:BangBang:

You are now officially a Lightning Rod!

thats a scary thought....

stay off of mountain tops and out of Florida , PK..:winkwink:

hahaha yer such a tease!! ;)

I thought for sure I'd come into the thread and see shok posting asking for pics ... I see others beat him to it lol

Argh - I thought finally...pics of PK naked or at least topless!!!!

Oh well. Back to my strange and delusional fanatsies instead :glugglug

I was hoping for that other type of implant and pictures. I feel cheated.

I had a tooth out today so i know how you feel :(

Arrgg...more darvon..more darvon

LOL

pics?

at least most of your teeth are real.

Yes, I've heard this too; I believe they use bone grafts from cadavers.

ouch :(

Made me look too... Having dental work done sucks big time!

Sweet PK, guess we have something in common. I got a titanium implant last year in my lower jaw, and am now a proud owner of a new crown :thumbsup

ouch, i would hate that :)

jDOG

Damn, I thought I was going to see a titty pic:321GFY