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Post by ET had AIDS on May 2, 2017 11:26:14 GMT -5
crap I don't like to post about this stuff, but it is coming up and making me nervous. A ton of bad luck with wisdom teeth about 5-6 yrs ago (to this day, I still have one that hasn't pushed thru and is giving hell to the little left up on that top side), hard living like an idiot with money being hit+miss w/ dental coverage being an issue until it was too late (and now I need to have pretty much everything uprooted)... In a nutshell I'm looking at a lot of partial implants or dentures more likely. I'm about 30. It's not fun to look at this at such a young age, so I'm trying to approach it from the POV that I can eat steak again once it's over. And other stuff my front teeth can't chomp down on their own anymore. It sucks because I likely will need good teeth removed to have the work finished. It's kinda depressing but it's pointless to keep the few teeth I have if I can't have good teeth that will work around them. And it will just keep  ing my gum up if I don't do something about it... from the wisdom tooth issue on one side, it will drain and it's hell when that happens.... I guess I'm just looking for someone around the 25-30 age range who has had major surgery and how it went? Part of this is from no coverage at the wrong times. A lot is from wisdom teeth raping my mouth from the inside. A lot is from not taking care of myself while I had no coverage (or money). Etc. I do have coverage now, but it's not like I can have partials put in all over my mouth or afford a bridge. Those are not covered. So yeah...just curious if anyone has gone through major surgery. What was it like for you? How old were you? etc. Thanks. |
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Post by Tim of thee on May 3, 2017 19:35:48 GMT -5
I fell on my face about 12 years ago and lost 3 on my upper front teeth.
I had multiple appointments which totaled about 10 hours of surgery and killing of the nerves. It was a real treat.
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 3, 2017 23:51:41 GMT -5
thankfully a lot of my nerves are dead in different areas, but some are just horrible still--and the ironic part is, it's in the areas where I still have somewhat healthy teeth + structure. There aren't many. My front teeth are all in tact but most sides and tops on the side/in the back either were ed up from wisdom teeth (I think the term is impacted wisdom tooth... I had an impacted wisdom tooth that started to kind of make my bite lopsided and it caused a ton of damage, but the majority came after that*).....*then the fallout from having an uneven bite lead to all sorts of issues from grinding, to little things getting caught even if I was really careful while brushing; on top of having "soft teeth" my entire life (drinking milk until I was 16 like it was soda for most kids their entire life for me up into that point and then a lot into my early 20s helped a lot too.... or they'd have gone sooner). When some caps came out from the wisdom tooth issues and then I realized i still have one in there, and an infection cost me some others.... I pretty much know what I'm up against now. Scheduling an apt. in the morning (likely) or within the next day or two. Probably will get me in by FRI since i have a jaw/ear infection right now and it's really getting bad with my eyesight to boot. I admit I'm really nervous. I have a high pain tolerance and pictures to prove it that I took when I should have been at an e.r. getting stitched up (prior to duct taping or crazy gluing these things shut... i've still avoided stitches somehow and only broken 2 or 3 bones in my near-30yrs on planet dirt).... I was stupid and even more crazy in my late teens/early 20s or before I turned about 25 and started to chill out a little that yr. But the dentist? i hate it so much. I've been there for simple cavities, fillings, etc. but in the past I could not handle laughing gas due to some drug interaction (or maybe it had to do with my epilepsy which I've since outgrown in addition to a drug i was on to treat the seizures...)..... in any case, I was wide awake for a number of root canals I had as young as 11 or 12 and then around 14-15. I was supposed to get braces but my teeth naturally straightened out for a long time, but also during that time period started grinding...that also causes a lot of the chipping and eventual issues beyond repair when I had no dental insurance... this was more recent to boot. It really bums me out because for a short minute or 2 or 3 yrs I had solid teeth until the wisdom tooth issues cropped up and one started to "r@pe" my mouth from the inside-out...literally...that's how I'd describe it. It was just horrible. the next thing I know, I'm Shane McGowan-lite and then turning into him slowly but surely from drugs and drink and no dental coverage or money left for payment plans (and an untimely death to our long-time family dentist who did let us pay in longterm plans or for pro bono legal work in return and crap like that). It was just a horrible storm.... I admit that some of it fell on my shoulders--I had a root canal that they were half-done with (killing the nerve was only half-done, which made no sense, and they shaved down the tooth and gum or something dumb only to charge an arm+leg and then assign me to a "specialist" 3wks later to finish the root canal... I never went and the tooth (being one way in the back) eventually did fall out, the nerve died completely, and I didn't mind since it took up room and may have been a wisdom tooth that had grown in properly (one or two maybe actually did--or had...it's all ed now). It was a joke. Something like 1k+ for half a procedure that was just horribly done and then I had to go into the middle of the nowhere-burbs in IL when it was well over 2hrs to see this "specialist" they were associated w/.... i had no dental coverage and it was bankrupting me then. Thankfully my teeth were solid for a pretty long while after that lone tooth took care of the nerve & itself; but man, everything else has slowly gone and I knew i had no money to pay to fix it until it was too late. It sucks. Now my coverage is half-decent and I'm just accepting it and looking forward to eating steak...and stuff I can't mention. |
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 4, 2017 0:05:15 GMT -5
I fell on my face about 12 years ago and lost 3 on my upper front teeth. I had multiple appointments which totaled about 10 hours of surgery and killing of the nerves. It was a real treat. Speaking of that, ouch! I forgot a similar story from baseball... one of my last yrs playing before I turned 18...so quite a long time ago now. I was 17. My middle brother, who is 25 and gigantic now (6'2"/220-245 depending on where he's at...); can golf under par sometimes and holds some pretty high-regarded records at his college/drives it 300 yards seamlessly; yada yada threw no-hitters in our league while striking out 10-16 or so in 6ip games consistently; etc. al....Point being, he's so much more athletic than I am! I'm 5'7-5'8" and have a really good BMI and am in nice shape with little body fat and pretty solid solid muscle mass, but he is built like a truck...and well, in much better overall shape health-wise than I am; not just aesthetically speaking, as I really do need to work out on endurance and stuff and running more this spring! He was just catching me when I was 17 and he was 12ish or something but we somehow got him on our team due to having no one who could pitch outside of myself, and one other kid who was only getting by due to being a lefty and having some funky mechanics the kids couldn't hit.... so enters my brother, throwing sidearm, 2/3rds, etc.... He also threw a lot harder than most people would think, since at this time he was JUST hitting his growth spurt or starting to as I mentioned, and just getting a bit better than me or catching me when it came to physical stuff (since I topped at 5'8 or MAYBE 5'9" tops....and was about 5'7" then for sure, and he was 5'5" prolly and getting stronger/had less wear/tear on his arm). In a nutshell, he could wing it much harder than the other team realized, and sometimes he'd hear the "little kid" comments from some of the batters (trying) to get into his head.... All it did was piss him off and he would throw it at 'em. He wasn't a dick and he had good control and could drop down sidearm and borderline-submarine, so he would usually throw one of each and make sure it was 1-1 w/ no one on base.... had a devastating slider for 12-13 and it was about 60mph and sweeping sidearm. It would get kids bailing out whereas a good curve buckles the knees, this just made kids literally turn as if it was gonna hit him before it'd cross the plate due to his absurd arm angle....and the plane he threw it from. He was really good and could have probably done something had he not committed to golfing. This memory lane story ends grim: he beaned a kid almost TOO well and knocked the kid's teeth out pretty good... and admitted to me on the bench: "It got away... I was going to try to hit his bat since he was holding it so far out in front and go for the foul tip, or just peg his side if i missed but it smashed him and he didn't turn the right way...he turned into it...not my fault." He was right about the last part but ouch. Kid bled pretty bad. I also recall a kid swinging with a donut on their bat, maybe 2 or 3, and that kid was ...me. This little kid who was much smaller than most or he would not have fallen within my swing path (like really small, 5'4"-ish which was small for a 16-17yr old in that league) and I was just swinging through and kinda moving it around. I may have been using two bats and just kinda warming up in the "hole" which is where you go prior to the on deck circle, when you're batting 2 behind whoever is at the plate. The kid walks up behind me when he's supposed to be way outside the lines for "the hole" and takes the bat directly in his dome. Lost a ton of front teeth; i still remember his crimson mask...just red. All red. ugh. I felt bad, but man! I've taken a ball directly in the face before, turning around and not knowing my catcher had gunned it to the 2b on a horrible pickoff attempt that hit me right in the jaw but I only lost a partial that was silver. I still have it in a tooth box from the (Wis) 'Dells.... haha |
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 4, 2017 0:05:34 GMT -5
teeth take up too much room.
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Post by theMOESIAH on May 4, 2017 12:21:59 GMT -5
crap I don't like to post about this stuff, but it is coming up and making me nervous. A ton of bad luck with wisdom teeth about 5-6 yrs ago (to this day, I still have one that hasn't pushed thru and is giving hell to the little left up on that top side), hard living like an idiot with money being hit+miss w/ dental coverage being an issue until it was too late (and now I need to have pretty much everything uprooted)... In a nutshell I'm looking at a lot of partial implants or dentures more likely. I'm about 30. It's not fun to look at this at such a young age, so I'm trying to approach it from the POV that I can eat steak again once it's over. And other stuff my front teeth can't chomp down on their own anymore. It sucks because I likely will need good teeth removed to have the work finished. It's kinda depressing but it's pointless to keep the few teeth I have if I can't have good teeth that will work around them. And it will just keep ing my gum up if I don't do something about it... from the wisdom tooth issue on one side, it will drain and it's hell when that happens.... I guess I'm just looking for someone around the 25-30 age range who has had major surgery and how it went? Part of this is from no coverage at the wrong times. A lot is from wisdom teeth raping my mouth from the inside. A lot is from not taking care of myself while I had no coverage (or money). Etc. I do have coverage now, but it's not like I can have partials put in all over my mouth or afford a bridge. Those are not covered. So yeah...just curious if anyone has gone through major surgery. What was it like for you? How old were you? etc. Thanks. Look into www.clearchoice.com. They do all-on-four implants. It's a cheaper option than traditional implants and the healing time is shorter too. |
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 4, 2017 20:36:57 GMT -5
I've heard of clearchoice and seen the ads, but thought like most dental commercials I see that mention similar options/payment plans, "This is too good to be true." (Up to this point, this totally sounds like a bad infomercial being transcribed.  ) I never explored it any further, but the commercial shows a guy eating corn and it always makes me want to eat steak and p00say and corn on the cob and sad that I didn't take better care of myself in my mid-late 20s. I'll have to check it out. I'm bottom-barrel broke these days, and my insurance covers a good chunk of dental options, but I don't know about implants. It would be wonderful if I could somehow even find a place to work with my insurance and on a payment plan on the side, since I know I'll never have FULL coverage... The idea of dentures so young is just depressing. Some of it is truly due to bad timing with wisdom teeth and coverage and not having money to have it taken care of. I know a lot of friends who are right around my age, give or take, who have fakes-f/ and m/ and they all look pretty good for the most part (teeth and the people, well, the ones who have gotten their stuff together or are simply clean-as-hell people despite their wicked ways). I can hardly tell and didn't know for a long time with a few of them, but still. It's just something I think I would have a terrible time getting accustomed to.... I almost feel like I'd prefer none at all for awhile. Just go full-on Shane McGowan post-Nips (I had really nice teeth; his were always awful! Even w/ the Nips!)...circa 2005-2010 or something, or just before he had 'em replaced a few yrs ago (and already f'd em all up again!).... the one thing that runs heavy on one side of my family (supposedly) is "soft teeth"....despite never being a cig smoker, not being a smoker of anything 'til 17ish, and not a heavy drinker much save a short period... It happened fast with the help of my wisdom teeth being crape. The thing is most of my young(er) friends w/ dentures were or are heavy drinkers. That's the big difference I guess.... I don't drink much and haven't since 2012 when my teeth were still nice. |
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on May 9, 2017 15:58:23 GMT -5
I never explored it any further, but the commercial shows a guy eating corn and it always makes me want to eat steak and p00say and corn on the cob What the..... |
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Post by Valbroski on May 9, 2017 18:02:30 GMT -5
just 2 of my wisdom teeth removed, nothing major
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Post by Escape The Rules on May 9, 2017 18:38:13 GMT -5
Just a molar removed in May 2015 when I woke up one morning with a huge abscess. It was a piece of cake, was over before I even realised and felt absolutely nothing. No pain before getting it removed and no pain afterwards either. I was just relieved to no longer look like Quagmire from Family Guy. And the tooth had been bothering me on and off over the years so it was nice to know that I would no longer have that problem ever again.
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 10, 2017 7:08:16 GMT -5
I never explored it any further, but the commercial shows a guy eating corn and it always makes me want to eat steak and p00say and corn on the cob What the..... |
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 10, 2017 7:09:44 GMT -5
Just a molar removed in May 2015 when I woke up one morning with a huge abscess. It was a piece of cake, was over before I even realised and felt absolutely nothing. No pain before getting it removed and no pain afterwards either. I was just relieved to no longer look like Quagmire from Family Guy. And the tooth had been bothering me on and off over the years so it was nice to know that I would no longer have that problem ever again. yeah, I have had an abscess in my gums before, and it was BRUTAL. It blew up bad. I still have the photo saved somewhere. giggity indeed. edit: you're 100% correct about the relief, though. It also isn't a big deal--I've had minor dental surgery before (root canals, had a tooth pulled once or twice, and some other stuff...) and when you get it over with, the relief is huge. Even when I needed to have half of a nerve killed or some nonsense, and my gums cleaned up before the root canal this one time--it was so nice just the week before not to have it digging in and stuff. What sucks is the totality of all of the work I'm looking towards. Not going to be fun but at least I'll be out cold for awhile. Laughing gas was fun. |
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Post by ET had AIDS on May 10, 2017 7:12:41 GMT -5
thanks for the help so far, fellas Life is kinda crazy on my end through May, but my hoping is to make these appointments for the tail end of it... or the start of June. I need to see my new pcp/internist as well. Getting old is no fun. |
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on May 12, 2017 15:01:56 GMT -5
Yeah I've had a molar removed before too (having another extracted in August). Procedure was simple and done in about 15 minutes, the aftermath was the most difficult part, eating on one side of my mouth and eating foods (soft foods) I normally don't eat. Was forever in fear of the blood clot to fall out of my mouth but it never did.
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