I've never had an implant before and didn't know that it would take so long to heal. Wednesday, May 30th was the day. I went inside the dentist's office and then it started. He (the dentist) put a post where my front tooth was. The dentist numbed my mouth... but I could hear everything that he was doing to my fake tooth. Hearing what was going on was painful enough.
I cannot eat anything hard and crunchy now, only soft things for 6 months. Wow. No more meat... unless I cut it up into tiny pieces... but then it won't be the same, no more chips, no more candy... which is probably a good thing... that'll make me lose weight. That means that I'll have to go to my sister Becki's house in Maryland in July like this... and I'll have to go to school like this.
Yesterday, Saturday, my parents took me to the dentist, and he gave me a temporary tooth. So, I can put that on whenever I go places... but the tooth is just for show... I can't chew anything on it...
The whole thing that the dentist/surgeon did was kinda cool. The bone needs to be built up more to give it more strength to hold the implant post. They added my own stem cells and blood to my gums to cover up the post that they already implanted. When the bone grows thicker, it will fill in all the gaps between the threads of the post for strength. That process will take about 6 months. Then they will need to put the imbutment on top of the post. Lastly, the tooth will be glued and/or screwed on top of the imbutment.
