Implants

I know it's probably totally vain,
but I have wanted them for such a long time!

So I talked Dave into it.
And we saved up our money.
Finally on the 18th I got my implants! Yay!!

Just so you are totally warned, I have posted some pictures.
See if you can guess which is real and which is fake...


You are surprised to see teeth?
You weren't expecting something else were you?!?
Oh my heck! That is so perverted!

Here is the before (one on each side):
The shiny blue and gold things in my mouth are the "healing caps", which are actually part 2 of the whole implant process.

Part one is, they drill a hole into your jawbone (I know--it sounds crazy! But it's actually not much worse than getting a cavity filled.) Then they insert a screw right into that hole using a teeny-tiny (and probably very cute) socket set. Your bone grows right around the screw and this become the root for your new "tooth".

Then a few months later you get the aforementioned healing caps which make your gums spread out to make room for the crown which is placed on a few months later.

The crowns are amazing. They look totally real. Even I have a hard time distinguishing which ones are the fakeys. And they feel totally real to my tongue too. It's so great chewing...I really missed having those teeth!

So thanks dear, for letting me be so selfish and spend all that money on my mouth. I'll make it up to you--I promise. (Maybe I should look into some of those other implants...)