Dental Pain - HELP!

[newhavenhibby]

Nature is already on the case Dallas.......mainly as a response to softer diets etc.

Certain teeth are being "phased out" and it is increasingly common for them to be missing.

Its a long process but in the future we may only be given 16 or 20 teeth. One of the incisors one of the premolars and one of the molars will be missing in years to come.

Not so many "ticking" time bombs lol

[Gate Keeper]

You said Wes, how your looks are important to you. Are you in the public eye or something? Imagine losing your hair and teeth at the same time. Here is a picture of when I used to have hair. When it started to go, I read an advert in the paper “free hair loss consultation” Harley Street, so I went. They had photo of Graham Gooch who had their “treatment”. Oh what they could do for me - I’d be 21 all over again and no need for Viagra. I was so shocked at the costs, rushed out of the consult and had a No 1



Why is it some guys go bald and some don’t?

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by newhavenhibby

Nature is already on the case Dallas.......mainly as a response to softer diets etc.

Certain teeth are being "phased out" and it is increasingly common for them to be missing.

Its a long process but in the future we may only be given 16 or 20 teeth. One of the incisors one of the premolars and one of the molars will be missing in years to come.

Not so many "ticking" time bombs lol

Amazing when you think about it, I guest its just like our wisdom teeth being phased out these past few centuries. Wisdom teeth have been part of my trouble for years, all four of mine came up, one had impacted though.

My wisdom teeth should have been taken out as soon as they erupted so not to cause the overcrowding, or my childhood dentist should have taken out one rear molar at each corner to allow my wisdom teeth to come though and have room. I was 35 when a dentist decided to extract my wisdom teeth, too blooming late then it was, should had been done years earlier.

I hear many stories where people don't have room for their upper canines to come through, my eldest daughter being one of them. My daughter had to have one canine out when she was young, seems I have handed down the overcrowding gene to them.

[Dallas]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

You said Wes, how your looks are important to you. Are you in the public eye or something? Imagine losing your hair and teeth at the same time. Here is a picture of when I used to have hair. When it started to go, I read an advert in the paper “free hair loss consultation” Harley Street, so I went. They had photo of Graham Gooch who had their “treatment”. Oh what they could do for me - I’d be 21 all over again and no need for Viagra. I was so shocked at the costs, rushed out of the consult and had a No 1

Why is it some guys go bald and some don’t?

Great pic Phil.

Dont start me on hair, I'm also loosing my hair too, soon I will be toothless and bald (I'm not quite 50 yet). I used to be in the public eye Phil, always in a smart suit but not so much now, thankfully.

I've always been vain Phil, you could say I suit that Carly Simon song very well lol. I've always been a show-off, I had thick luscious hair and gleaming white teeth once upon a time.

This is me now showing-off in the photo below, not quite 50 yet. Photo was only taken a few months ago when enjoying the summer sunshine. I was in excruciating pain when this photo was taken, this was when I said enough is enough, its time to get rid and opt for full dentures. I just hope I don't look too different after my bottoms come out, otherwise I will be driving the TF with the top up. lol

[newhavenhibby]

Originally Posted by Dallas

Amazing when you think about it, I guest its just like our wisdom teeth being phased out these past few centuries. Wisdom teeth have been part of my trouble for years, all four of mine came up, one had impacted though.

My wisdom teeth should have been taken out as soon as they erupted so not to cause the overcrowding, or my childhood dentist should have taken out one rear molar at each corner to allow my wisdom teeth to come though and have room. I was 35 when a dentist decided to extract my wisdom teeth, too blooming late then it was, should had been done years earlier.

I hear many stories where people don't have room for their upper canines to come through, my eldest daughter being one of them. My daughter had to have one canine out when she was young, seems I have handed down the overcrowding gene to them.

Just as some teeth are being phased out the relative jaw size is decreasing. So if you are unfortunate to have 32 teeth and the jaw is smaller than it was, there is going to be overcrowding.......this is not just you and is very prevalent.

Lack of room for the upper canine is common ( last tooth in in this region) and hence why in many cases the first premolar is removed to then allow the canine in, possibly with some orthodontic help. However if there is no room at all and the aesthetics are OK with an incisor next to a premolar it is sometimes an easy fix to just remove the canine and save all the orthodontic time.......however there are usually other mal occlusions which warrant an orthodontic approach.

[Gate Keeper]

Hi Wes, thank you for the compliment. I was in Russia on a job and the portrait was done by a street artist. I thought he made me look severe. Your photo on the other hand is the opposite. When you get your new teeth settled in, one the things to watch out for is sneezing, as they can fly out, unless you put your hand up in front to catch them. I can’t think of anything else at the moment.

[Dallas]

Ok, can this get any worst? Now I've got esophageal thrush of the mouth and throat.

Lets see, not only I've had years and years of dental problems, endless failed root canals, enough pain to test the most strongest of men, and don't forget all the money that has been spent or should I say wasted. Endless dental visits, hospital visits, CT and MRI scans, several diagnosis and treatments all for what? Oh and then there's the chronic testicular pain to throw into the mix, sometimes I think I must be superhuman to get through this cr*p,

The excruciating pain of losing my upper teeth only a few weeks ago, and now set to lose my lower teeth in a few weeks time. This will obviously bring me more pain and discomfort, that's more healing time, avoiding those dry-sockets, the infections and the fixed bone-spurs which hurt like hell is proving impossible, healing time really sucks, so does a soft food diet.

Then there's the past few years of having to adjust to wearing partial dentures, and now facing the fact that I will need to adjust to a full set of dentures and the cost involved yet again.

The uncertainty of whether my dentist can make a good set of dentures that actually fit, the not knowing whether I'm going to be able to adjust to a full set of dentures, facing a life with no teeth is certainly going to have its drawbacks.

... and if all that isn't enough to cope with, with Christmas just around the corner and 3 cars with problems that need sorting. I now have esophageal thrush of the mouth and throat, my throat is in agony, my whole body feels like cr*p, and this is all because of my so called new immediate denture which doesn't fit, and being on antibiotics for 4 blooming weeks, the antibiotics have killed my good bacteria and left me with bad bacteria. WTF.

All those days where I've not been able to function, thousands of hours lost laid up in bed in excruciating pain watching my life simply waste away hasn't been enough to cope with, him upstairs is still trying to finish me off.

Oh! and not forgetting having to look after both my parents with their illnesses, the list just goes on and on.

Yes, I am feeling sorry for myself, will this ever end, I just want my life back.

[Gate Keeper]

The only practical thing you can do Wes, is to pull yourself up and out from the pit. It’s no good staying there and feeling sorry for yourself, there is much more to life than that. Don’t feed self pity with more sorrow, as it’s a downward spiral. You can’t undo all the bad things that has happened, but you can move forward and make changes, adapt.

[Dallas]

I hear you Phil, I'm working on it, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right?

[Gate Keeper]

Originally Posted by Dallas

I hear you Phil, I'm working on it, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right?

Thank you for your pm Wes. Some things of a more personal nature are better discussed in private. Let’s do it there in the atmosphere of discussion, options and confidentiality.