Hey Greg... I'm not sure what your point is with your post but I am only guessing or wondering if anyone else uses their teeth for so many different things and therefore having problems of any sort.
I have never used my teeth for anything like you have but I am having problems with my teeth and it's because of several different things. 1) I lost my 2 front teeth in the accident in 1979. Because of this I had to have a lot of dental work done including braces. After all this was said and done (and provided a plate of sorts that had two front teeth that I could pop out and back in to clean) a "permanent bridge" of 6 front teeth. That was fine until 1999 when my gums began receding from the bridge as well as mean eating some other dental work. The dentist ended up being a crook but he made me a new bridge and I needed some other dental work done before that. My husband and I were getting ready to move to Virginia and we didn't realize until afterward that the guy didn't give me a "new" bridge but told us that he had done this and that and was waiting on a place in California to make my new bridge when, all he did was add my old one fixed up a little and put the old one back in my mouth! I was on my husband's dental insurance but that only paid $1700 and we still had to pay $5000 for the that bridge. We then moved to Virginia (from living in New York State) and there wasn't anything we could really do. 2) That was my second bridge and now the bridge that I have is still in there good but there has been many different cosmetic type things that have been increasing around the top of my bridge and one of them is a chip and my gums are receding even more. I have been trying to get to a dentist since moving back to Arizona but have not been able to make it to one event after trying three different times. I had one made for March 9 but since my skin is very fragile right now I had to cancel it. Now I hopefully will make it to the next opening which is March 27! I know that I have 2 cavities on the bottom left side and that is what I am primarily going for but also to get a good rapport with this new dentist. When I was in PA I went to the same dentist that my sister went to and my teeth were in great shape after visiting him twice. I just had my teeth cleaned and I asked him if he could put something between my gums and my bridge in one area where my gums are receding from the bridge and he did so so that area would look better. The cavities have been most likely caused by being on an increased anticholinergic (oxybutynin) to see if that would help my bladder spasms. That medication has always been known (especially the highest dose which I am now on) to cause dry mouth and my dry mouth has been horrible over the last five or six months. Before my husband died we both had quite a bit of dental work here in Arizona but that guy and did up being another crook. He told us that he would not perform any more dental work for either of us unless we had his hygienist treat us for the periodontal disease that we had. We both knew that we did not have periodontal disease because we had no signs of it. So we just stopped going to him. When I went to my sister's dentist (who was very good) I asked him if he thought that I had any periodontal disease and he said no. He told me that I had a little bit of gingivitis but not the other. So we were right about not having periodontal disease. That dentist was just trying to get more money out of us. I have come across so many crooked doctors and now dentists that it's despicable. OR I will find a great doctor but terrible staff which is pretty much just as bad. OR I will find out a little too late with any doctor or dentist that they were wrong or they were charging astronomical prices/co-pays. For example, I got a bill from my nearly urologist for a simple urinalysis (not a culture and sensitivity) and it was a $112 co-pay (charging Medicare for over $400) for something anyone with any knowledge can do at home! Just purchased the urinary strips. Because my husband went to medical school and was a Chief Medical Technologist who ran his own laboratory in a small town in Colorado and therefore an expert in the field of working with urine and blood testing that provides the doctors with what they need to know or that was found under the microscope. He had many technologists under him since he was the chief of the lab so it was a breeze for him to purchase the strips at home but every once in a while (perhaps once a week or every other week out of curiosity) he would test my urine. He knew what everything meant on every strip and knew exactly how to analyze each and every chemical and what was right and that right as far as pathology. He knew how long to wait for each and every test whether it is for such as the presence of proteins, glucose, ketones, hemoglobin, bilirubin, acetone, nitrate as well as testing the pH and specific gravity or test for infection by different pathogens. Everything was fine before he passed away. Then, afterwards, different caregivers were not as clean as he was as far as cleaning up after a bowel routine. Before his passing and because of me building up more sediment he thought that perhaps Protius Mirabilis was back in my urine so he thought we should get a culture and sensitivity done. We didn't have the laboratory tools to do that so we had a home health agency nurse take a urine specimen to be taken to the lab to have a C&S done to confirm that it was present or not. It was. Then it was time for having a CT scan to see if I had any bladder stones and sure enough there were 10 of them in my bladder. Back in 2006 (6 years before) I had many stones removed by my great urologist. Unfortunately, my husband passed away so I had to have them removed after his death and is such an easy procedure. I was fine until I moved back here in the first nurse I had to change my catheter did what she did and now I need surgery. Just another example of a medical "so-called professional" hurting me instead of helping me and because it could not be "proven" that she did what she did to me... I am just waiting to have the surgery. When I first moved back here I got an appointment with my urologist to get another rapport going with her since I had her for between 2006 and 2012. But none of us knew or could see the horrible thing that happened to me and my urologist is not qualified to do reconstructive surgery so that is why I had to contact another urologist who can do those types of surgeries. He is so busy that I do not have an appointment until June 13 and I am suffering in the meantime. What she did has created a domino effect. I had to increase my oxybutynin to try to stop the leaking around my catheter which led to the dry mouth which led to the cavities. My original urologist was trying to help me before she had to refer me to any urologist she knew of to perform probably a bladder neck surgery which is what I am having done. On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:51 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: I use my teeth for a lot. To pull things, tighten them, etc. > I now have 3 chips on the top front. Luckily they are small, 1 in back of > tooth, so can't see it. 2 of them caused from biting an aluminum stylus > trying to put it under my Universal Cuff. Now I wrap them in black tape on > the bottom. To have a soft area to bite. > > Greg > > -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the
