Stupid dentists

[SunRiseArts]

feel better soon!

 

[penelopejane]

Good grief obsidian. You poor thing. I hope you get better soon and that everything heals well.

 

[earlene]

They take ground up bone from a cadaver, make a paste with saline or your blood and pack it into the area where there is missing bone.
Sometimes they use small slivers instead of the powder. They used the powder on me so they could really pack it in.
I had absolutely huge roots, no way I could do a implant without a graft.

If you have a large area with no bone, you may well not be able to get implants but you might be able to still get a graft if you really want to go that route.

Or bovine or porcine or synthetically derived materials are also used. Around here, there are some farming folk who refuse to have dental bone grafts because they don't want farm animal bone incorporated into their mouths. Yet they have no problem eating them.

Myself, I would not want animal bones either, for different reasons, though. But even as a person who dealt with cadavers in college and so forth, I'd still be a bit grossed out by the idea of cadaverous bone grafting. If it was presented as an organ donor situation, maybe I'd be less grossed out. It's all a matter of perception, I think.

 

[Obsidian]

Cadaver bone graft is a bit gross if I really think about it but for the most part, it doesn't bother me.
Not sure I'd want animal either but only due to worry about failure. Grafts aren't cheap, I want the material that has the best chance of taking and that human bone.

I did ened up with dry socket in both bottom sockets. I had them packed last week, its helped. One is healed over but one still has a but of bone exposed so I had to get it packed again.
Gauze will come out later, hoping its healed over to the point I can just deal with it. I don't really want it packed again.

If all goes to schedule, I'll get my implant in dec. Dentist want me to have a nice long healing time before going at me again.