I've heard the recovery is a little lengthy ? Recovery rates differ from patient to patient. For a younger patient, the recovery rate is faster than an older patient.
You have to wait for the bone to heal before they can procede ....is this true? Makes sense, if they are drilling into your jaw bone. Not necessary. There are some implants that are done on the spot. For example, you walk in with a banged-up tooth and the next thing you know, the tooth is out and an implant is put in its place. We are so advanced that we can literally do this procedure within an hour or so. Depending on the dentist and procedure, the pin can be placed into the hole, bone graft may be filled to surround the implant and a flap done to cover it up so healing can take place.
Some dentist will even put the implant in complete with a fake tooth with no flap so you walk out a tooth. Of course, you will have to return to get the matching color and to get post-op treatment.
Anyways, I think I would do it for free....but it doesn't even come close to something I'd consider taking a second and third mortgage out for. Considering the alternative like a bridge or denture, I would take the implant in a heartbeat. It is an exciting time in dentistry when a procedure like this can be done. Though having said this... I would prefer a periodontist who specialized in this rather than a general dentist who do it on the side perform on me.
A friend of ours had his done....$40 grand for all the work he had done....THEN within the next year, chemo made all that work and money for nothing.
Qui. There is always a risk involve. One doesn't know what might happen 1 year or 10 years down the road. Too many external factors that you cannot control and chemo is one of them. Sorry to hear that about your friend.
