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Did they do dentures too Anbar when they did the bone reconstruction? They did not do dentures at Stanford for me, they only did maxilla bone and palate reconstruction. I wonder how they do dentures now?
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@kkd Back in 2007 when I had my original conservative surgery, the sequence was: Scoop/carve out the jawbone, wait for the bone to regrow as far as it can, transplant a small amount of bone from the back of the jaw to fill in, wait for it to heal, install posts, wait for it to heal, install implants.
Both in 2007 and in 2023 the dentist found it and sent me off to an oral surgeon for biopsy. Same dental practice, but my original dentist retired a few months before my second round was discovered.
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Just like you I only have had the jaw reconstruction and they said that this is because they can’t anticipate if the new bone is strong enough to handle the dentures so instead I’m going to have to wait around 3 months for a scan to be done to assess the durability of the bone and then from there they’ll do the dentures.