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I am getting an implant May 29th. Maybe. I had my upper front tooth slowly die from resorption, and it was removed in December last year. At the time my dentist didn't want to talk about bone grafts until it healed because he wasn't sure how it would look after healing.
Now I wish I had pushed for an implant back then, because when they go to do the procedure in May I may end up with different outcomes. One is he does a bone graft at that time because there may not be enough bone. Two is that he does the implant and is able to pack some bone graft material at the same time. The last is that there is enough bone and the implant proceeds normally. I was told he wouldn't be able to tell until he got into it, which is kind of a bummer.
It will be expensive, but hopefully worth it. I'll pay for it out of pocket, but keep the receipts in case I want to draw out of my HSA later on. It appears to be a long process of healing between steps.
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