Dean,
BTW: How does your implant feel? I may need to get one on a back tooth. Thanks!
Many thanks Mike for your responses. The surgeon did a good job. We both knew that removal of the impacted #32 may not be the best thing to do and that #31 was already a little loose. We both decided to wait and see how #31 developed. I just forgot to ask some more questions when I saw him about care for the tooth and options to follow. I certainly knew about the possibility of extraction/implant/crown. I've just been waiting/hoping to see how #31 developed. In December the surgeon said give it a few months to see how it works out. So he is trying to be conservative in treatment.
If the bone will not tighten on its own around the (I think healthy tooth). Is it possible to open the gum tissue and place a bone graft into the area around the tooth and help secure it - the tooth?
Dean Scott
it all depends---- you may be better off at that point with an extraction and an implant. impossible to tell without seeing you, the rest of your teeth, your bite, periodontal measurements, evaluating your hygiene, seeing films etc etc.
it is unlikely the tooth will "tighten" if there is not enough bone support, regradless of what supplements take. It could be that it ws loosened by the technique used to extract #32. This should all be explained to you by your dentist. Ifyou are not comfortable, get another opinion. It is impossible to give you other than theoretic advice without seeing you, examining your bite, measuring the bone loss and seeing films.
If you can compress the tooth into the socket this is not a good sign that there is sufficient bone support for this tooth. It sounds like the prognosis for #31 is poor.There isn't anything you can really do to grow back the bone but if you are going to keep the tooth I would remove it from occlusion. This way it is not being traumatized each time you eat.