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**erroxiainsona** · 07-31-2012, 08:42 PM

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More complicated ... what constituted "dentistry" in the olden days.

All my teeth removed at age 16 on the local dentist's advice (one piece of which was that it would save my future husband the expense .. there are witnesses; other women my age from that town).

The outcome has been that due to ill-fitting dentures, just replacing them was no longer an option because of absorption? whatever of the bone in both upper and lower jaws leaving them dangerously fragile ; ." .. if you fall, forget your hip, protect your jaw".

So ... the procedures recommended (even after second opinions which I sought to try to find an avoiding procedure) were bone transplant etc and that followed by implants of some kind to which will be attached replacement "teeth

It is gross even to think about I know, but there it is.

So, no teeth of my own for over 50 years.

(Now you guys know why I say don't talk to ME about the good old days. The present day people dealing with oro-something and cranio-facial surgery etc tell me this is not uncommon.)

I must say that the technology I have been shown is pretty amazing .. they know how to keep my mind of what's happening by showing me how their machinery works.

I am thankful to be living now, when there is some corrective action available to me.

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erroxiainsona Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	No. More complicated ... what constituted "dentistry" in the olden days. All my teeth removed at age 16 on the local dentist's advice (one piece of which was that it would save my future husband the expense .. there are witnesses; other women my age from that town). The outcome has been that due to ill-fitting dentures, just replacing them was no longer an option because of absorption? whatever of the bone in both upper and lower jaws leaving them dangerously fragile ; ." .. if you fall, forget your hip, protect your jaw". So ... the procedures recommended (even after second opinions which I sought to try to find an avoiding procedure) were bone transplant etc and that followed by implants of some kind to which will be attached replacement "teeth It is gross even to think about I know, but there it is. So, no teeth of my own for over 50 years. (Now you guys know why I say don't talk to ME about the good old days. The present day people dealing with oro-something and cranio-facial surgery etc tell me this is not uncommon.) I must say that the technology I have been shown is pretty amazing .. they know how to keep my mind of what's happening by showing me how their machinery works. I am thankful to be living now, when there is some corrective action available to me.
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