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I have to replace a missing back tooth.
I was leaning toward a bridge, but a permanent one means grinding away most of the two adjacent teeth, which have NO fillings, no problems, no nothing. (A removable one, they don't recommend for reasons that were only partly explained.)
Leaning towards an implant, means BIG bucks, and, guess what..... insurance won't cover it. Sigh.
Anybody have a good or bad experience with bridge or implant?
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I have read that implants COULD possibly trigger ALS. I have a friend who, for reasons known only to him, had ALL of his teeth removed, and had implants put in. He is now dying with ALS.
Just so you know... I wasn't being funny. In fact, I had saved up enough to get two implants(I'm missing some FRONT teeth), and what I read and because of that friend, I decided to wait and see how the research is going into regrowing human teeth using lasers, stem cells, and what have you. Apparently, "they" are close to perfecting these procedures.
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I have to replace a missing back tooth.
David, at the risk of sounding "funny", how far back is the missing back tooth? If it's far enough back (just two or even three along from the one totally at the back), is it worth getting it replaced at all? My third-from-the-back got pulled out years ago and the gap has never given me any bother.
2nd from the back.
I can say I've adapted my eating for long enough that I can't remember what I've had to do that might be difficult or inconvenient. Your suggestion is one I'm debating, especially since insurance, no matter which replacement option I choose, does NOT cover posterior teeth.
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To be completely serious about this, it would probably be cheaper for you to purchase an airplane ticket to Colombia and have the work done there.
Risks? Too many to count, I'd say.
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This is too freaky.
For a couple of years now I've had a missing molar.
Upper left side second last.
Dee-Bee, are you sure you and I aren't the same guy?
Maybe I/you/we/us are also related to Graham.
Lower-right side, second last, me. So this means we are mirror twins.
Oh, but mine is lower side, so we're converse (inverse? dialectical?) mirror twins.
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A life size skull, pliers, and some superglue will do the trick! Or wad up some chewing gum and shove it in the hole. Or forget about it.
You're always Too Serious for the Thread, Solly. 
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Upper left side second last.
Nearly. Upper left side third last in my case.
Been without it for over twenty years, and no-one advised me to get it replaced.
David, unless yours is a specific anomaly and you've been told that it's absolutely necessary to get it replaced, I'd say forget it.
I might be reacting to someone I saw a while ago, missing more than a few, both front and back and thinking, "How does this person CHEW??"
My thinking is going now along what you suggest, Graham. I'll wait to see if I lose more someday, and perhaps opt for a removable, which won't wipe out those good (adjacent) crowns.
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I took Graham's advice and didn't bother with a replacement. It worked out fine. (thanks, Graham).
But now the exact same tooth but on the OTHER side has blown a gasket and had to be removed.
Now chewing is a new experience, pushing food more to the front to do the job. So I'm going to have an implant, at least on the one side, since having that one tooth was liveable.
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Even small bridges cost to much. I had three teeth pulled early in the year. Thankfully they're far enough back not to be noticeable. Push comes to shove it will be dentures for me.
Are you going to wait for them all to conk out, or are you going to have them all yanked out? 
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