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OregonBecky
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 Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: Missing Teeth? |
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I need stories. The dentist wants to pull out all of my adult daughter's teeth and no replace some of them with implants, even though we'll pay for the implants.
The searches I've done say some pretty bad stuff, from the health of people without teeth being worse than those with teeth. Also foster and group homes want no teeth, It's less work for them but they don't keep statistics of how often their residents choke so we can only guess. I've very emotional about this.
They don't want to implant new teeth because of her seizures. They say, what if an impplatned tooth breaks and blocks the windpipe? But, what about people with their own teeth? They have the same problem.
I'm going to post another post, asking if people's seizures suddenly stopped happening.
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| I would not allow that to happen. Her jaw's (both of them, but especially the lower jaw) development will be extremely impaired. And $2,000 per tooth per implant? People break their teeth during seizures, sometimes. Has this actually happened to her? I've found foster homes to go the the least work possible, here in Oregon. When I was having a brain tumor removed, they only shaved the area in the spot where they were cutting, but a MR woman I know, having the same procedure done, had her whole head shaved. To hell with self-esteem for the different. I would definitely get lots of second and third opinions up at the dental school at OHSU. They deal with kids special needs well. There are a lot of really bad dentists here in Oregon, with behind-the-times training and attitudes towards autistic or MR people. Attitudes like you'd find in the old mental hospitals. yuk. |
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OregonBecky
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thank yuo for your replay. I thnk I'll camp out at the dental school. I felt tearful when I read your reply. This is so hard.
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| my bad misread some of your post. deleted, my story/suggestion is not relevant. |
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OregonBecky
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The saddet thing I've found in my searches is that there is a lot about what horses go through when they're missing teeth but very, very little on developmentally delayed people. I found a repost that says that it's hard to keep track of choking in foster homes so there isn't much information.
I need to talk to a horse doctor. Ironically, when kids were used as slave labor in Europe, it was the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals who took up their cause. They claimed that kids were animals and deserved to be treated better. Why do animal people have more compassion?
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Prof_Pretorius
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I know a bloke who had all his teeth removed and replaced with dentures. Aside from they're being much too white, you'd never know.
BUT he went through a lot of physical distress after the work. He was in a bit of an odd situation, never took good care of his teeth, but was in very good health otherwise.
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