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Anonymous
is there a limit as to how many images i can post within a certain time frame? i told someone i'd post pictures of a cosmetic dental surgery i had last year, but there's 50 pictures and i'm not sure how many i can post.

pic related (micro-scalpel used in the operation)
>> Anonymous
You should be okay. Go. I can't believe I'm saying this because I don't want to see them.
>> Anonymous
>>284799
thanks. i sorted it alil and cut it down to 29 pictures.

little backstory: unfortunately i got shitty genetics and am missing both of my upper lateral incisors (after the baby teeth came out there were no adult teeth to come down). during braces i had fake teeth bracketed and wired into the empty space. after braces the plan was a wing with veneers (for a few months i had to wear a retainer with fake teeth on it). however, when you're missing adult teeth, the gum starts to recede because there's no tooth to latch onto. so the idea was to do a ridge augmentation, which is basically harvesting (cutting out) tissue from the roof of my mouth and planting where the gum starts to recede, then attach the bridges.
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so this is what my teeth looked like about a year ago, before 90% of the cosmetic stuff i got done (also pre-whitening). note the retainer and the two fake lateral incisors (the ones to the left and right of the front two teeth).
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without the retainer (fuck, right?)
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this is a mold of my front tooth, the space, and my canine on one side of my mouth. fitted inside the space is the wing (which is just a fake tooth with wings that attach to the back of the nearby teeth).
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same thing, but with the wing taken out of the mold.
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time to start cutting! this is to start the space for the harvested tissue to sit in.

is anyone even watching this thread btw?
>> Anonymous
Aw fuck balls. I'm so glad my teeth came in straight as fuck with armor clad enamel.

Then again, being beautiful is such a bore.
>> Anonymous
>>284820
yea, and im glad my family has a fuckload of money to fix my shitty teeth heh.
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anyways, more utensil working up in the gumline.
>> Anonymous
Yeah I have a gap so i'll be in the same boat as this guy soon.

Then i'll finely be the most beautiful girl ever instead of just the most beautiful.
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harvesting the tissue on the roof of my mouth.
basically slicing a little chunk out.
>> Anonymous
Lol, were they just sitting there with a camera taking pics then? doesnt happen very often
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the resulting chunk.

this was repeated on the other side of the roof of my mouth for the other missing tooth.
>> Anonymous
>>284830
my case isn't very often, and it's a pro cosmetic surgeon (he invented and patented that micro-scalpel and does seminars for other surgeons) so he was taking pix to showcase what a ridge augmentation with that set of tools would look like.
>> Anonymous
>>284832
lemme rephrase that--one of the nurses was takin the pix, lol. that'd be alil fucked if he was takin em.
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time to get the tissue in!

first, need a way to pull it up into the gumline, so this curved scary looking HOOK thing was used.
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in goes the hook.
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then the tissue is pulled UP into the gumline to reverse the receding gum.
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pulled up nice and snug
>> Anonymous
>>284832


and he just kinda..... sent em to you? like oh here, hi-rees pics of your op
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time to prepare for the fake tooth to sit INTO the gum (and therefore look natural, like a real tooth).
>> Anonymous
>>284843
naw, when i went in for post-op checkup i brought a usb key and asked for the pix.
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after doing a little drilling (to make space for the tooth)
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in goes the wing
>> Anonymous
that's about it. there's one more pic of the front that was taken, but it was taken at a fcked up angle and makes my teeth look weird. i took a cell phone shot a couple months after the surgery, so ill see if i can find that.
>> Anonymous
meh, i can't find any recent pix of my teeth.

long story short: after that surgery/recovery i had whitening done, got a new set of whiter, better shaped wings that were bonded to my other teeth with very permanent glue/cement.

also had a little gum lasering done (which is basically reshaping gumlines via laser). best part of the lasering is being awake for it. everything is numb, but you can smell burning flesh (and it smells like fritos).

anyways, that's how a ridge augmentation works. hope you all enjoyed.
>> Anonymous
Hmm.. I wonder how long the glue lasts before it needs to be re-applied...
>> Anonymous
>>284859
technically it should never have to get replaced unless i somehow bite down on a rock DIRECTLY on the fake tooth. it's called permanent for that reason =]
>> Anonymous
Geezus, how much does something like this go for?
>> Anonymous
>>284864
the ridge augmentation itself was around $2k i think. that doesn't include the cost of the bridges or the braces or all the other shit.
>> Anonymous
get the job redone
all those teeth need to be removed!!!!
i should know cause i'm a dentist
>> Anonymous
>>284927
lol
>> Anonymous
>>284861
keep your hopes up, it wont be that permanent...
>> Anonymous
I had to have an implant and veneer for my front left tooth. I also had the tissue graft from the roof of my mouth (which shrunk).
>> Anonymous
/b/
>> Anonymous
Bunch of snaggle-toothed losers.
>> Anonymous
seriously. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU POST THAT SHIT? OMG YOU DUMB ANON
>> Anonymous
>>285085
no
>>285089
lol
>>285090
capslock isn't always the answer
>> Anonymous
>>284794

Rapidshit of all pics plz.
>> Anonymous
That operation looks both simple and crude........yet strangely elegant.
>> Anonymous
>>285182

yea. and the results are truly amazing.
>> Anonymous
much thanks anon, I've been looking for this for a while!
>> Anonymous
>>285219

lol wut?
>> Anonymous
>>285219
lol wut?

Thats just creepy.
>> Anonymous
I had this same surgery done... Total is was about 4 thousand... Still waiting for the second half of the surgery for them to put in the Permanent tooth
>> Anonymous
>>285580
yea i didn't have permanent teeth put in cuz i was 17 at the time and men can have possible jaw growth up into their early 20s (which would fuck the position of permanent teeth if it happened).

and yea i didn't quite remember the exact cost, sry.