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Originally Posted by carambola
i am growing bone and have (almost) two front teeth out and i feel like a hill billy.
the implants with be inserted after i have grown enough bone.
i am curious about the next stage
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I had to have my two front teeth replaced with implants. At age 17 both front teeth died withing a few month of each other. The dentist back then said it was likely from being hit in the mouth so many times by my older brother. I had root canals done way back then. Eventually they turned browner and browner and looks horrible so I did crowns. Those lasted for several decades but got to the point they were just worn out.
To keep the crowns in place was impossible so implant time. Step one is removal of the roots and grow new bone with cadaver bone as a start point. It is hard to talk with no front teeth and a lot of foods are a real challenge to eat.
Instead of just looking like I was from Arkansas I let my mustache grow. No one could tell I was toothless unless I smiled real big. It is a challenge to eat with a mustache in the way and I used a LOT of napkins.
Eventually I got the implants studs and some little screw in plugs to keep the threads clean. When that healed it was time for the new studs screwed into the threaded hole and the tooth snaps on to that.
I am a curious type and when the oral surgeon pulled out the torque wrench and I could hear the click of full torque I asked what the torque value was. They use a weird system of Newtons per centimeter so I dug up the conversions and it is of course pretty low in inch pounds.
https://www.bauersmiles.com/2012/06/dental-implant-torque-guide.html/