Starting Over on Implants: Dental Implant Failure Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe dental implant failure and starting again. Writers lost implants soon after placement or after nine, eleven and fifteen good years, and their stories touch on smoking and vaping, type 2 diabetes, night-time grinding, a chewed-ice habit, gum disease, a dry mouth from Sjögren's syndrome, radiation for tonsil cancer, a bone medicine, a blood thinner, depression, grief, and an implant that pushed into the sinus. They include a long-haul trucker, a trumpet player, a taxi driver, a sheep farmer three hours from a specialist, a dental hygienist of twenty-four years, a mother breastfeeding a nine-week-old, and a daughter helping a father with memory problems, writing from Thessaloniki to Tampa and Nairobi to Dunedin. Treatments include bone grafts, a sinus lift, bone taken from the hip, mini implants, four implants holding a bridge, and an implant placed too soon after an infection. Some describe a cheap trip abroad, a guarantee that fell apart, and dentists who could not identify the brand. One man was never given a reason, and several ended with a bridge, a denture or a gap they chose to keep. Many describe what a second opinion changed.

Who it's for

For anyone told their dental implant has to come out, for those planning a first implant who want better questions to ask, and for family members helping someone through repeat treatment.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 231 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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