Originally Posted by cyn228

Hi, I was born with a missing #24 and #25 teeth, (two bottom front teeth). I think it's 24 and 25? Anyway, I got braces to open up that gap so I can put dental implants in. I had braces for over 3-1/2yrs and finally, the time had come...Last yr, I went to a Dentist who does implants to get my two dental implants done. She said she covers everything from A-Z and charged me about almost $8000 for both implants. I then was told I had no bone there so got bone grafting done. I think its called an Allograft since she used a dead person's bone? Well, I think everything went well. Months later, she put in the dental implants and I thought I was done. So a couple weeks after the dental implants, I noticed something white on my gums of the tooth of the implant area. Turns out it was the bone piercing through the gums?? I went back to the dentist and she filed it down and told me the gums should close in a week or so. Turns out it didn't and so she did gum grafting on me where she took a piece of the gum from my palette and put it on the open gum area, hoping this will work. Well, it stil didn't close the gums and on top of that, since the gums were open, I was told that my bone grafting area was being rejected?? Ughhhhh So then she tried to do a guided tissue restoration, where she scraped out all the tissues and bone that was bad and inputed some new bone, then put some membrane in there and stitched me back up. Well, I'm not going on 3 weeks and the gum area is all healing well, except for that same gum area that was exposed in the first place. She said she's very disappointed in my body because it's healing so slowly. I don't get it. I'm 32 yrs old, don't smoke, don't drink, exercise and keep a pretty healthy life style. I dont' have any diseases or anything, yet my gum isn't healing. I've been through so much with this whole thing and have given her all my money for this implant. She says she's not sure what else to do and that I might just have to deal with a hole in my gums. She says its healing but just not healing at the the way to the line of the the implant is? I didn't pay all that money for it to look this defective. I'm so upset and I know I need to get a second opinion on this but everywhere I go, they want to charge for a consultation. Ughhh Now I'm regretting on ever getting dental implants done and I feel like there's just no one that can help me Can someone tell me what they think is the reason why my gums don't want to close?? Is there any way on getting this fixed?? Or is it just me? Help please