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Originally Posted by Bryanna
Hi leesal,
Based on all that you have shared with us on this forum.... you have extensive jaw alignment and teeth problems. To my recollection, you did not mention how your dental problems originated whether it was due to severe decay, trauma, dental neglect, health problems, medications.... etc. But over a short period of time you ended up with many, many invasive dental procedures which seem to have only exacerbated your dental and jaw problems.
Building up the occlusion to open the bite is risky especially in someone who has TMJ problems and severe jaw bone loss in the lower arch. If I remember correctly, the lower grafts did not take because your lower jaw bone is not adequate enough to hold the grafts because the teeth were missing for a long time which results in deterioration of the level, width and height of the bone. So after what you have gone through with the surgeries, infections, and failed bone grafting, I thought you understood that dental implants on your lower arch was not a possibility?
Is this new dentist proposing to restore just your upper teeth with veneers and crowns? What is his suggestion for the lower arch?
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I lost three teeth after an accident many years ago. I was diagnosed with TMJ around the same time as the accident. At that time my Dentist did fixed bridges on both sides. When I moved to a new state, the new dentist added bonding to 5 lower teeth to help the TMJ which really screwed me up. He was a biological dentist and honestly his hygienist and him were both not competent. He redid my original bridges. The new bridge failed within one year of him completing it which is why I had more teeth extracted due to decay and an improper fitting bridge.
I switched to a new dentist and he wants to restore the upper teeth with veneers and crowns to lengthen the bite. He also is proposing that I try bone grafting again if he can find the right person. He said if that didn't work, he would do some sort of permanent denture. This is the dentist that wants to charge me $33,000.