Wellness

[okiemam]

Hello- I recently had the oral surgeon portion of the work done for two dental implants. The next step is for my dentist to make the new teeth. He has scheduled my first appointment for an hour and a half. What in the world is he going to do for an hour and a half? TIA for your answers.

[HappyDaze]

well, they have do impressions, try to color match so they make sure you new teeth match your other teeth, they usually do measurements and try to make sue the get the correct size and alignment and length of teeth, etc. It really is no big deal, time will fly.

[pattypeep]

That doesn't sound out of the norm. I have to have two crowns (next to each other) re-done and they've scheduled three hours. Very difficult for me for that long, so I told them to bring on the nitrous oxide.

[Nonametoday]

The first part is getting the flipper made before the extraction.
The second portion is getting the teeth removed and getting bone grafting simultaneously.

The third part is getting x-rays to make sure the bone grafting took.

The fourth part is getting the implants.

Then after a few weeks you get x-rays to make sure the implants are working.

The next to last part is getting the reveal and abutment done.

After that you should go right to your dentist office to get the impressions and coloration match done. They will fit you with temporary teeth which should be cemented in until the final teeth are returned at which point they will remove the temporary crowns and replace them with the permanent crowns.

It took me about 1/2 hour to get that done but they had set aside an hour.

Incidentally, I have had several done.

[Nonametoday]

On 11/1/2014 twopeas said:

That doesn't sound out of the norm. I have to have two crowns (next to each other) re-done and they've scheduled three hours. Very difficult for me for that long, so I told them to bring on the nitrous oxide.

Twopeas, I have had numerous crowns and re-dos and it never took me anywhere near that long. I had crowns redone after teeth developed cavities and had to be filled after 20 years.

I had to have two crowns redone where I bit into something at Appleby's like a rock (in my food) and it broke two crowns. (They refused to pay for it since the manager was not available in the restaurant although I showed it to the waiter, a cook and the hostess, who all said the manager was not available. I did not want a big court fight so I paid out of my pocket).

Then I had two adjacent root canals go bad and had redo's through the crowns and there was no relief of the situation, so I ended up having to have an apicoectomy and with that procedure, new crowns were required. All of that took place within less than a year.

I never had it take me hours, not even root canals that were done through the crown. I have had root canals done in the past through crowns and they worked fine but these were impinging a nerve or something as they were adjacent and roots were very, very long, almost into my sinuses.

The only time I was in a dentist office for hours was when a dentist tried to pull the left upper canine (opposite the canine with the long roots on the right) and the roots were so long he could not get it out, he could not give me any more Novocaine and I had an asthma attack due to all that and could not have any nitrous oxide. The bleeding was horrendous. I had on a white silk blouse because I thought it would be like the other extractions I had had, no issue. No, I had a blood-soaked blouse when I left and my nerves were jangling. I got there for a 2 o'clock appointment and left at 7 p.m.

My brother, 2 years out of dental school, did a pulp cap on me and must have damaged a nerve and I was at the Grand Canyon when the medication effect wore off, and you could hear me screaming throughout the Canyon.

At this point in time, I am either crowned or implanted of all teeth in my mouth and yet have 3 root canals still remaining

Oh, dear, sometimes I wish I had been born without teeth. Another plus to that scenario is that I could not eat as much and would not gain weight so easily.

[okiemam]

Namealreadytaken, I've had the teeth extracted, the bone grafting, the plug removed and healing collar installed, and xrays. So I'm ready to have the new teeth made, I think. I know the painful healing part is past- I just couldn't quite imagine the impressions, measurements, and color matching taking 1 1/2 hours. The oral surgeon told me to wait two weeks to go to the dentist, but I can't get in until about the 6 week mark. Hopefully that doesn't create any problems.