Watch out for the bread!!!!

I just started the implant process (they just screwed in the titanium piece into the bone a month ago). That part was $1500 and it will be another $1000 for the crown AFTER I wait 4 months to see if the implant actually took! It was very painful, too.

The procedure of the implant was painless.
The tooth extraction was almost completely painless.
They drilled and put the socket in. No pain.
Some time later, they put the pin in and the crown on it.

As N'cat says, bless dental science and the progress of it.

You were really lucky, TB. I had an extraction and next to that had an implant. Vicodin didn't touch the pain.

According to my dentist, that tooth was as healthy as could be.
The bread was like chewing rocks.
It was not ready to go!!!
I tried to crack that piece of crust afterwards. It was
very resistant.

Terra Rosa at Red Rock used to have incredible Olive Bread rolls. When we went last time, we asked for those rolls and were told that they don't serve them anymore since a patron cracked a tooth on a pit in one of the olives.

Larry from Las Vegas, NV

Big deal. Same thing happened to me at Sam's town a few years ago - chipped my tooth on a crab leg.
Live with it.
It's not the restaurant's fault.

Mare, two more things:
First, I did get the local. My guess, without it, different story.
After the implant was installed and the local wore off, I was sore later that night in my jaw.
Ibuprofen took care of it.
I was given a script for codeine or something. Never filled it.
It's been something like 2 years with the implant: looks good. Glad I did it though it cost more than $2,000 for the implant itself.

I believe teeth just get more brittle as we age.Last year I cracked a front tooth eating reheated pizza.Crust is tough on reheated pizza.Needed a crown.I'm lucky enough to have retires insurance,but my share was still expensive.Especially since that was my second crown of the year.

Wow, colbert -- that wasn't very nice. Pretty rude, actually.

TB -- maybe my pain was from having both the implant and an extraction done that day. The novacaine and lidocaine (they used both) started wearing off while I was waiting for my prescription to be filled and it was already getting to be intolerable. The oral surgeon told me before I left the office that I should take one of the pain pills as SOON as I got them. He wasn't kidding, but that Vicodin did nothing. I added and 800mg ibuprofen to it and that helped, but still didn't kill all of the pain. I iced my jaw as much as I possibly could. They did bone grafts where they extracted the tooth and I'm supposed to wait 6 to 12 months to get another implant in THAT area. After this pain, I'm not sure I can do it! BTW, I'm pretty tolerant of pain -- I've gotten fillings without any novacaine before (I hate needles).

Sorry to hijack your thread, Judy!

No problem Mare,

Looks like I'll be needing all the info I can get on implants, since my

Dentist found that the nerve was too damaged to save the tooth.

That Colbert is a pretty compassionate person!!!! There's one
in every group.

Novacaine is wearing off, time to crack open the wine.