Hi Tina, There can a level of risk with most every medication we take. What helps us decide whether to take them or not are the risk/reward factors.
In the case of bone loss medications, while there may be a slight risk for osteonecrosis, for most people who take these meds, it can prevent them from debilitating fractures associated with bone loss. The instances of osteonecrosis are rare, but seen on occasion in cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy, which can slow the healing process. For most healthy people the risk factor is low.

It’s excellent that you’ve had a great outcome with your tooth implant. Sounds like your bone and tissue healed successfully and you have your smile back! ☺️
I wish you well with the vitamin supplements you’re taking instead of bone loss meds. But again for some people, these medications are vital and their risk of fractures and possible immobility outweigh the slight risk of necrosis from the drug.

Have you had a DEXA scan since you switched to vitamins?

Yes, what you are describing was my kind of experience as well.

My wife has serious osteoporosis. I think her mom had it also. I forgot the details, but I think her mom had bad experiences with those medications? It was either her, or a friend of hers.

And that is how I knew about the issue.

We have a drug industry that is sometimes quite out of control and quite irresponsible.

I will mention an inside story here. I know someone who took a meeting with a US Senator from NJ. This was before the current ones in office. He was told directly, that in NJ, because of the powerful presence of drug companies, you could not stay in elected office if you opposed them.

And that is the real reality. Money and power dictates what happens. Not always, of course, but way too many times.

Drugs come onto market that really have no place being there. Basically, government has abdicated its role and just allows the drug companies to be their own monitors. And this, with millions of dollars at play. Just a potential festival of corruption.

I don't know the details of the development of these drugs. But based on the complaints, I imagine that they needed more development before coming on the market.

My cousin was in on the development of the original PC, over at IBM. He told me that the engineers brought a prototype to one of the business meetings. The business guys wanted to go ahead and send it off to production. The engineers protested that it was not ready. But the business guys pushed it into market. And if you wonder why the long history of endless problems with computers? That is one of the big reasons. Greed won and caution and safety lost.

And that happens across all kinds of businesses in America, because the companies basically pay off Congress with campaign contributions and get little or no regulation.

It is a festival of deep problems and often even dangers to the public.

Even worse, in a sense, as far as business is concerned? Entirely unnecessary. Businesses can make PLENTY of money without engaging in this kind of cavalier and dangerous attitude.

Plenty of money.

But, apparently, plenty of money is not enough for some folks.

I was alive in the 60s and 70s. Businesses were aggressive back then too. But not at this level...or anything close. We have lost basic common sense in how we run things.