Shejidan / Dental Work!

**Posted by joekc6nlx** 8/09/2021 12:53 pm

Over on WWAS, CJC talked about getting dental implants 3 years ago. IIRC, she had them done on both sides of her mouth. Well, this morning, I had my first one, had to have been in one of the hardest places to work, too. Last tooth,
upper left side. Hardest part was the actual drilling, because I had to hold my mouth open wide sideways as well as up and down, and my jaw doesn't go that far (since wisdom tooth surgery 51 years ago).
Funny that she uses a torque wrench to screw the post into the bone, I thought she could have just gone down to the local Home Depot and bought one, but this is a specialized wrench. I felt it click when she reached the right torque, but it was just funny to see her working the wrench in front of my face. Oh well.
Two-and-a-half hours in the chair. Not much pain, but apparently, plenty of blood. She was very conscientious about the amount of anesthetic, since I have a resistance to them, they have to give me more, and usually more than one time.
I go back in a week for a check-up, and probably weekly after that for a month or so, and then the impression will be sometime in 4 months or so, and then the crown will probably be a month after that. So, maybe by Christmas, I'll have a new tooth.
Makes me wish that we could work on regenerative therapy where we could grow a new tooth to replace the old one, or a new heart, liver, etc. I guess it'd be fine, except for the brain - for some people, that's beyond replacing -

**Posted by HRHSpence** 8/09/2021 1:24 pm

What an extensive upgrade! I hope you have great use of it.

**Posted by Surtac** 8/09/2021 5:42 pm

Have never been a fan of dentists - especially since being what felt like an experimental subject of Tasmania's school dental service many years ago. I salute your fortitude.

**Posted by starexplorer** 8/10/2021 2:25 pm

Great to get it done, and with little pain. The other factor at least where I am is how expensive this kind of work is!

**Posted by joekc6nlx** 8/12/2021 8:46 am

so far, no problems, but it's only been three days. No pain, no bleeding, and it doesn't hurt to brush there.
After the anesthetic wore off, there was a dull ache, but a couple of acetaminophen tablets took care of that.

**Posted by HRHSpence** 8/12/2021 8:52 am

nice! I hope that's a sign of things to come.

**Posted by starexplorer** 8/12/2021 10:59 am

Excellent!

**Posted by joekc6nlx** 11/23/2021 12:15 pm

Last month, dentist did an exam on the implant, said everything looks good, but wanted me to see an endodontist about one of the other teeth in my upper jaw. She had just put a crown on it, but now, the endodontist says I need a root canal on that tooth. The question is will I get a new crown, or will they just fill the crown like a tooth? Well, I get a bite impression in 6 days, and the root canal in 7 days. I'll know then.

**Posted by HRHSpence** 11/23/2021 8:05 pm

I just had a root canal through a crown, I had to have a specialist do the root canal and the regular dentist fill the hole he made with as if it were a cavity.

**Posted by nighthawk** 11/25/2021 4:16 pm

I had a root canal just before leaving for France, and have been living with a temporary filling; now that I'm back, I go next week for crown prep and the temporary crown, and will get the final crown in December. I think that will be my Christmas gift to myself, not quite what I planned for this year.