So I broke both my front teeth in a holiday incident (surprise, alcohol involved). Needless to say, I look like half the NHL and don't feel too good about it. My dentist tells me that there's nothing I can do but get an implant for one--she bonded the other one, so it looks okay. I know implants are expensive and I'm young and poor. Any chance I can grow the one back naturally? Like raw foods, coconut oil, bone broth, calcium, vitamin d, no refined sugar, no grains--like paleo on steroids?
I know that almost everybody will say that you can't grow teeth back, but this isn't entirely true. It has been done, and for people who had no other sets of teeth in x-rays.
And if not, any dentists on here with other advice? I don't have thousands to drop on an implant...
Young guy, broke both front teeth
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Option one: make a fake tooth out of chewing gum ever few days.
Option two: Steal some dentures and pop off a good tooth for your own.
Option three: Get someone to knock you in the face and then claim the broke your tooth. Make them pay for the damages.
Option four: Tell the ladies a good story about how you lost your tooth fighting off a pack of chupacabras that was attacking a small child.
Option five: get a grill at a pawn shop.
Option six: Move to rural America, you will have more teeth than most.
Option seven: Deal with it.
Option eight: start a fund me site.
Option nine: Blame it on some food and sue. -
Implant or cap, probably, depending on severity.
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yeah, keep eating bone broth, you'll have a shiny new incisor in a couple months.
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Come on Letsrun.
Where are the naturopaths, the holistic healers, and the pseudoscience loons? I need something positive to cling to--even the thought of visualization to bring it back--give me something! I'm more depressed than jamin right now... -
I'm about to graduate dental school and I can tell you that there's no way your tooth will grow back. If tooth is replanted within minutes after the accident, there is a decent chance the tooth will be retained for life. However, this window of opportunity is 20min max.
Since your tooth has presumably been out for some time now, my advice would be to save up an implant. I know it's expensive but it's your front tooth and very visible. You are young, so the implant should take well and last you a solid 30 years. Go to the nearest dental school to you and get the implant done by a dental resident. It'll be much cheaper than your regular dentist and they may even be able to use a sliding scale. -
dentaldummy wrote:
I'm about to graduate dental school and I can tell you that there's no way your tooth will grow back. If tooth is replanted within minutes after the accident, there is a decent chance the tooth will be retained for life. However, this window of opportunity is 20min max.
Thank god we have a dental student to share with us a tooth won't grow back although I'm pretty sure I learned that in grade school. -
Dental implants do NOT last 30 yrs. good luck with that.
Also the implant process is very time consuming. After the post is inserted in the hole drilled, it will take 4-6 months for the surrounding tissue to approximate and grow around the post. Then the fake tooth can be attached.
So actually you would have some time to raise funds.
If a dentist says he can do it faster, beware.
Alternatively if you have enough healthy tooth left a dentist should be able to build/bond the remainder of the tooth.
btw if you lose a tooth, put it in milk. It will last a bit longer till you get to a dentist. -
Scootchie Pootchie wrote:
btw if you lose a tooth, put it in milk. It will last a bit longer till you get to a dentist.
I only have skim milk, is that okay? -
Scootchie Pootchie wrote:
Dental implants do NOT last 30 yrs. good luck with that.
Also the implant process is very time consuming. After the post is inserted in the hole drilled, it will take 4-6 months for the surrounding tissue to approximate and grow around the post. Then the fake tooth can be attached.
So actually you would have some time to raise funds.
If a dentist says he can do it faster, beware.
Alternatively if you have enough healthy tooth left a dentist should be able to build/bond the remainder of the tooth.
btw if you lose a tooth, put it in milk. It will last a bit longer till you get to a dentist.
They have "implants in a day" now. -
once attractive wrote:
I only have skim milk, is that okay?
It does not matter if an ugly troll has teeth or not, so you have no worries mate. -
you'll have to get the implant. I broke both my front teeth and had implants. Not the end of the world. Ya it costs an arm and a leg. Vote dem and one day we'll have socialized medicine.
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You say you're "young" but that alcohol was involved. I do trust that, though young, you're over 21--or else that the alcohol consumption wasn't yours--because, as everyone knows, it's illegal for someone *under* 21 to drink alcohol.
HOWEVER: if you *were* the alcohol imbiber, and you *were* under 21, then you must not fix your front tooth for a period of ten years. This can be reduced to five years, provided you obey the law and stay strictly away from alcohol between now and then.
I'm sorry to be so harsh, but lawbreakers and drunks are assholes and need to spend several years being reminded, every time they look in a mirror, of their assholishness. This might help them to avoid repeating it in the future, and improve the safety of their fellow citizens.
Thank you.
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Do you have dental insurance. That's not that expensive. You could get it for 45 bucks a month.
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I broke both my front teeth when I was nine (bike, downhill, wobble, panic…).
One tooth had about 1/3 missing, the other was split up to somewhere under the gum. The latter got a root canal, and both got temporary caps since my jaw was still growing. All that took 4-5 visits to the man with the 2-inch needle with loops on the handle for extra grip to make sure I felt it all the way up in my nose.
Funnily, I really did wonder if I could replace them myself with chewing gum.
At age 16 a different guy filed both teeth down to stumps, and put permanent caps on them, with much less pain. It's been 39 years and they're still doing fine.
If they pulled your teeth, then you need either implants or a bridge (false teeth anchored to nearby teeth), and you will get them eventually. If you still have some bone left, crowns might work. -
Get a partial and wear that.
You will get used to it and forget it is there.
Definitely do NOT screw up your jawbone with implants. -
Just go find yourself a girl with missing front teeth too
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Ok smarta$$, was just trying to help. Seen many implants last 15-30years, albeit 30years is usually the longest you'll see. this is assuming the implant is done well, and the patient is presumably a young, non smoker that eats fairly healthy.
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was nine once wrote:
I broke both my front teeth when I was nine (bike, downhill, wobble, panic…).
One tooth had about 1/3 missing, the other was split up to somewhere under the gum. The latter got a root canal, and both got temporary caps since my jaw was still growing. All that took 4-5 visits to the man with the 2-inch needle with loops on the handle for extra grip to make sure I felt it all the way up in my nose.
Funnily, I really did wonder if I could replace them myself with chewing gum.
At age 16 a different guy filed both teeth down to stumps, and put permanent caps on them, with much less pain. It's been 39 years and they're still doing fine.
If they pulled your teeth, then you need either implants or a bridge (false teeth anchored to nearby teeth), and you will get them eventually. If you still have some bone left, crowns might work.
Exact same thing happened to me. On my 8th birthday busted both of my front teeth in a bike crash. I'm 53 now and the worst pain I've ever felt in my life was that effing needle going up into what felt like my brain. Had to put a post up into the bone on one of them. The other was filed into a post-like structure and caps fixed to both. I'm on my 3rd set of caps now. Each set has been better than the last as far as looks and longevity. -
Anybody know anything of these lasers that can apparently spur regrowth?
I'm afraid of the pain and money involved in implants and the potential problems down the road. I wouldn't really care if it were any other teeth, but I'd like to look good for, you know, people in general. And women of course. And no, I'm not 21 or younger. I'm mid 20s
