I went through a period where I really didn't care much about hygiene in general, including my teeth. That lasted for a LONG time. So now I have caps on most of my teeth. My dentist told me that now I have three teeth that are rotted so badly she can't do anything more for them, and they will have to be extracted. The appointment is June 6. Then she will put temporary caps on the wounds so they don't get infected, and I go back in 12 weeks to have the implant screws installed. Then another 12 weeks before I can get the implant caps. The lag time is for the bone to heal.
So, I will likely be in bed for a week with unbearable mouth pain. Fortunately, the pain should subside greatly after that. For pain doctors/dentists in the US now recommend combining ibuprofen and acetaminophen (US brand names Motrin/Aleve and Tylenol, respectively) instead of opioids/opium derivatives because people get hooked too easily on opioids and people went in for root canals and extractions and wound up hopeless gutter junkies within a few months. So I have two big bottles of ibuprofen and acetaminophen (one each) on hand.
The dentist was apparently a raver girl in her youth and she plays 90s rave music as she works, and I'm one of the few patients she has who loves her music. She keeps MP3 players with nature sounds and soft music at the ready because few of her patients want to hear hardcore 90s techno while they're getting their teeth worked on. (She's in a really wealthy area and a lot of her patients come from wealthy families and her music doesn't sit well with such "refined" elites.) So yeah, that's a positive, since it's rare to hear rave music anywhere nowadays.
So, liquid diet for a week, along with horrible pain.
So, I will likely be in bed for a week with unbearable mouth pain. Fortunately, the pain should subside greatly after that. For pain doctors/dentists in the US now recommend combining ibuprofen and acetaminophen (US brand names Motrin/Aleve and Tylenol, respectively) instead of opioids/opium derivatives because people get hooked too easily on opioids and people went in for root canals and extractions and wound up hopeless gutter junkies within a few months. So I have two big bottles of ibuprofen and acetaminophen (one each) on hand.
The dentist was apparently a raver girl in her youth and she plays 90s rave music as she works, and I'm one of the few patients she has who loves her music. She keeps MP3 players with nature sounds and soft music at the ready because few of her patients want to hear hardcore 90s techno while they're getting their teeth worked on. (She's in a really wealthy area and a lot of her patients come from wealthy families and her music doesn't sit well with such "refined" elites.) So yeah, that's a positive, since it's rare to hear rave music anywhere nowadays.
So, liquid diet for a week, along with horrible pain.