My Dental Adventure

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Hi everybody! I'm so sorry to have been gone for so long! I'll explain in another discussion but for short, I was so very sick for almost a month! But I'm much better now, thank God! My dental adventure was just that, a hell of an adventure to say the least! Well a little over a year ago I went and had the rest of my bottom teeth pulled. I was so tired of the constant pain of one after another of my teeth breaking and having to go through those painful novacain shots and the pain of the tooth or teeth being fixed not to mention the cost. I went through that for a long time and finally had enough so I had them all removed on the bottom. I was told that it was best to get the implants about 3-4 months after I completely healed. I had planned on getting implants then but decided to wait out of fear of what if I didn't like them then we were out all that money. I waited a little over a year. What a big mistake! When I went in, the dentist told me that my gums had fallen over toward the inside and had to but cut out in order for the implants to fit properly. He gave me the gas as I had asked for but he didn't give me enough for I felt every bit of the novacain shots. It was extremely painful! My eyes watered up to the point that I had to have a tissue to wipe the tears away. I wasn't crying but the pain caused my eyes to water up something awful! Now he thinks I'm numb and I'm not for I'm feeling everything so he goes to numb me up some more and this time I didn't feel it as much so I could handle it. He goes to do his thing and as time wore on, the feeling started coming back and he gave me more shots to numb me but this time it wouldn't take. He gave me more and more and it just wouldn't take so he continued to do what he could. I could feel every bit of him screwing the implant into my gums and all I could do is cringe. He tried numbing me again and again, gosh I lost count as to how many times he shot me up. Finally he got all four implants in only to find one had cracked my bone so he had to take it out but the other three were ok. Then he tells me that I should be in the Guinness World Records for the hardest to get to numb up because I was the hardest he'd ever seen and not only that, my case was not the worst but next to the worst he's ever had to work with. Then he goes on to tell me that I was very brave in taking all the pain that I had taken because anyone else would'nt have been able to deal with that. I told him that I basically had to put myself in another world so I wouldn't feel the full effects because I was in a great deal of pain and he said, no doubt but you know I tried to numb you but it just wouldn't take like it should've. I have to go back to get the last one on another date. I got home and was in a great deal of pain but had pain killers to knock me out. The next day I had all that cooking to do for my mom's birthday and an early Thanksgiving which my brothers and their wives came and they paid for all the food and hubby and I were to cook it. They saw the pain that I was in and pitched right in to get it all done. It was a huge success! Then the following day I got so sick and was running a fever. Hubby called the dentist and told him what was going on and he ordered me a strong antibiotic which helped enough to get the fever plus infection to go away. At least long enough for me to heal up. Now this all happened the middle of November so now I'm all healed up and still have to get the fourth implant, I'm VERY happy with them! No more denture cream! BLA! That stuff is nasty! So no more of that and can eat anything I want without having to worry about my dentures falling out or anything getting under them. Was it worth all the hell I went through? I don't know. I guess it all depends on the person but for me, I'm just so happy that most of it is over. The one last implant shouldn't be anything near as bad as the first three. I hope not anyways.... The picture I've included, the far right side is what I got, or at least three of them anyways. I love them!