Having major dental surgery soon..some Q's and stuff--

Best advice is don’t look it up and just get it done. You’ll end up freaking yourself out twice as much

I had 2 extractions, resulting from a fall, more of a trip lol, and as long as your all numbed up, its uncomfortable more than painful, jaw ach from having hands in your gob lol

Unfortunately, with no insurance and having to live off ssi for income, I couldn't afford any sort of replacement for the teeth that were pulled. So, I just have a gap now. Sucks, but bad teeth run in my family and despite brushing a flossing properly, they probably won't be the last ones needing to be yanked in my life.

The doc did talk about implants and while every case is different, some patients are able to get the posts for implants put in the same day as the extraction. Would be impossible for mr to say what type of timeframe you'd be looking at if you wanted to go the implant route. That's something you'd need to talk to the oral surgeon about before the extraction. I looked into it a bit myself and it seems like most people would be between six months and a year from extraction to fully healed and installed implant. But most folks are able to get back to eating and brushing normally way sooner than that.

A denture in place of the missing tooth/teeth is much simpler (and cheaper). You only really have to wait until the swelling is 100% gone in the gums. You'll be swollen a bit for about a month technically (maybe less, maybe longer depending on how much gum needs to be cut and your bodies individual rate of healing). But, you'll only really notice the swelling for a week tops. Most likely only a few days. Some patients are even able to get a temporary denture pretty much right away that would be replaced by a better fitting one once the swelling is all gone and your gums get back to normal. Again, that's something you'd have to talk with the doc about because everyone is a little different.

Bottom line though us just don't freak out about it. Easier said than done, I know. He'll, I'm agoraphobic and have massive extra levels of anxiety with any sort of doctored, so I was freaking out like crazy. Whole thing was over in less than an hour for me and I barely felt anything at all (and I don't take pain meds even). You'll be fine ultimately and probably just have a bit of mild pain or discomfort for a few days to a week.

And ultimately I think implants are out of the question. :/ I have dental insurance but it isn't perfect; implants are not covered. But dentures are.

You'll be fine as long as this man isn't your dentist!!

Mine are just at the point of no return, mostly due to neglect and fear/phobia of the dentist. I've been getting all parts of life back together and seeing a dentist (fixing my teeth) is a big one.

Thanks again for all of your help and info.

That sucks, but also makes dentures way easier to deal with.  But, that also means they'll almost certainly be willing to put you under for the procedure.  My Grandpa was missing all his teeth.  He literally never went to a dentist until he was in his 60s and actually pulled most of them out himself.  Only went to the dentist at all to have the last four pulled and get dentures for eating steaks and such (which he hardly ever used even for that).  Having all of you teeth yanked at once will probably lead to some greater than average discomfort or pain, just based on getting all done at once, but it's still more than likely going to be a pretty routine procedure that your oral surgeon has done hundreds or even thousands of times, so try not to stress too much about it.  Biggest hurdle you'll have is the wait for the swelling to fully subside so dentures will fit as they should, but even then it's likely you could get some temporary ones that fit a little looser while the gums heal.