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  • delnative
    delnative Member Posts: 450
    #22
    denistd said:

    Hyperbaric
    I went through the oxygen treatments last year, had teeth removed after and then ten more post teeth removal. Was just eating a slice of pizza and my lower middle tooth broke off at the gumline, this probably means I will lose all of my lower teeth

    Gosh, Dennis
    I'm sorry to hear that. Just tonight as my wife and I were eating dinner, she was eating a piece of Irish soda bread (left over from a St. Patrick's Day dinner the night before) and I heard a "pop!"
    She'd bit down on something, maybe it was a piece of wheat kernel, and she was able to just shrug it off.
    "Better you than me," I told her. I hate to think what would've happened if I'd bitten down on that thing. I suspect I would've broken a tooth.
    I hope all works well for you. Please keep us informed.

    --Jim in Delaware
  • DonnaT123
    DonnaT123 Member Posts: 2
    #23
    backachedp said:

    DonnaT123
    Hi Donna..I see you are from Mpls..we live in a close suburb of Mpls...where did you have your treatments at? My Husband had his at the U of M...he has a Dental appt next Monday and he wants to cancel it..I do not think this is wise he say's his gum's are still too sore. He finished Radiation Jan 28 of this year..would like to talk to you about where you had treatment and how well it went for you...I added you as a friend hope you don't mind. There is talk of removing part of my Husbands tognue in May he has his first PET April 14. His tognue is still very hard near the back of his mouth. They said it is Scar Tissue. Hope to hear from you or anyone else...
    Thanks...
    Deb

    Hi Bachachedp...... would
    Hi Bachachedp...... would love to talk to you and hear your story!! I was treated at Abbott Northwestern -- Piper Cancer Center. Excellent treatment but I'm pretty sure it was the surgeon who made my life do able again after such an invasive surgery.

    Make sure your husband takes very good care of his teeth and oral cavity -- you do not want to deal with what I'm going through right now.

    Anyway, hope to hear from you again

    donna
  • Kent Cass
    Kent Cass Member Posts: 1,898 Member
    #24
    ljoy said:

    Hyperbaric Medicine
    I'm currently taking treatments in Minneapolis. It has large chamber rooms with lounge chairs. There are up to ten patients in each session. We have a nurse with us at all times. There is also a doctor on site. We get two air breaks and are in the chamber for an hour and fifty minutes. I have completed 17 of the first 30. Then oral surgery then 10 final treatments. It is too bad you have to be in an individual chamber.

    I like you and others hope this is my only time to do this. It is a grind. I commute a 150 miles round trip every day.

    Tops of the teeth
    Over the past couple weeks I have noticed the tops of my biting/carnivourous teeth are kinda-like GONE. Lower-left has a single ridge running across it to show where the top of the whole tooth used to be. Been that way with the front teeth, upper and lower, for quite some time. So, it seems to me that the tops of my teeth are disintigrating. Is this typical? Use the Prevident once/day, and Colgate in the AM, but the teeth are all yellowed, and now the tops are disappearing. Don't have my next Dental check-up until May, and I'm wondering if I should make a visit this next week.

    Would truly appreciate any advice, or word of a shared experience.

    kcass
  • CajunEagle
    CajunEagle Member Posts: 408
    #25
    Kent Cass said:

    Tops of the teeth
    Over the past couple weeks I have noticed the tops of my biting/carnivourous teeth are kinda-like GONE. Lower-left has a single ridge running across it to show where the top of the whole tooth used to be. Been that way with the front teeth, upper and lower, for quite some time. So, it seems to me that the tops of my teeth are disintigrating. Is this typical? Use the Prevident once/day, and Colgate in the AM, but the teeth are all yellowed, and now the tops are disappearing. Don't have my next Dental check-up until May, and I'm wondering if I should make a visit this next week.

    Would truly appreciate any advice, or word of a shared experience.

    kcass

    Filling loss
    Noticed just yesterday, while using my Water Pik for flossing purposes, that I have lost a filling in a front lower tooth. Doggonnit, I've been working hard to keep these teeth, so maybe I'm going at it too hard (?).....who knows. I've noticed that yellowing also, and that battery powered brush just doesn't seem to be getting the job done. Guess it's back to the dentist this coming week.
  • delnative
    delnative Member Posts: 450
    #26
    CajunEagle said:

    Filling loss
    Noticed just yesterday, while using my Water Pik for flossing purposes, that I have lost a filling in a front lower tooth. Doggonnit, I've been working hard to keep these teeth, so maybe I'm going at it too hard (?).....who knows. I've noticed that yellowing also, and that battery powered brush just doesn't seem to be getting the job done. Guess it's back to the dentist this coming week.

    Yellowing
    I've been getting yellowing as well. My dental hygienist remarked on it at my last checkup/cleaning.
    I told her I was doing Prevident each night and rinsing with ACT in the morning, but both she and the dentist said this isn't yellowing from fluoride. I too use a power brush, and the hygienist always says what a good job I do with my teeth.
    I guess as long as my teeth are strong, I don't really care what color they are.

    --Jim in Delaware
  • staceya
    staceya Member Posts: 720
    #27
    delnative said:

    Yellowing
    I've been getting yellowing as well. My dental hygienist remarked on it at my last checkup/cleaning.
    I told her I was doing Prevident each night and rinsing with ACT in the morning, but both she and the dentist said this isn't yellowing from fluoride. I too use a power brush, and the hygienist always says what a good job I do with my teeth.
    I guess as long as my teeth are strong, I don't really care what color they are.

    --Jim in Delaware

    Fillings
    While I was going through rads I notices my fillings were turning from silver (yes, they are that old) to black and they seem to be melting? and getting sticky. They don't feel as sticky now, has anyone experienced this? Did you have to replace the fillings?

    Stacey
  • janymac
    janymac Member Posts: 35
    #28
    staceya said:

    Fillings
    While I was going through rads I notices my fillings were turning from silver (yes, they are that old) to black and they seem to be melting? and getting sticky. They don't feel as sticky now, has anyone experienced this? Did you have to replace the fillings?

    Stacey

    Kentcass
    I had the same as you - NPC and blackening to the tops of my 6 front top and bottom teeth - I felt so self consious and couldn't wait to have them sorted. Went to dentists, NHS and private, and max fax - nobody really seemed to know what it was and one dentist even said I needed to have my teeth whitened, but I couldn't have that done as part of the NHS (from England) ANyway, finally got sent to a hosptial dentist, who said it was a certain sort of dental decay that is exceedingly slow, but it would take some years to completely rot my teeth away to a crumbling mass - can't remember the real name for it. He said whitening would be the worst thing to do as the black bits would not get brightened and would look worse against very white teeth (they are rasther yellowed.) So he suggested to my regular dentist that the teeth had the black bits scooped out and taken back to health enamal and refilled with white filling. This has worked well for a year and a half - only had one fall out in all this time, but see that it is spreading to other teeth. Check yours very carefully on the edges - it starts with just a small pin head sized hole.

    Personally, the care I got for my teeth prior to, during and adfter my cancer treatment was non exisitent.Even when I was flat out for the last 4 weeks of my radio in hospital, and couldn't get out of bed, nobody saw to it that I was washed, or had teeth care. My regular dentist doesn't even see me having had head and neck radiotherpapy as a risk of any sort. The only person who has ever said anything to me was my GP 2 weeks ago when he examined my mouth to check I didn't have a tooth abcess - I didn't - but he said, I more than anyone should be regularly seeing my dentist! A bit late now 8 years on!! Just as well I look everything up on the internet.
  • thegirlfriend
    thegirlfriend Member Posts: 142
    #29
    janymac said:

    Kentcass
    I had the same as you - NPC and blackening to the tops of my 6 front top and bottom teeth - I felt so self consious and couldn't wait to have them sorted. Went to dentists, NHS and private, and max fax - nobody really seemed to know what it was and one dentist even said I needed to have my teeth whitened, but I couldn't have that done as part of the NHS (from England) ANyway, finally got sent to a hosptial dentist, who said it was a certain sort of dental decay that is exceedingly slow, but it would take some years to completely rot my teeth away to a crumbling mass - can't remember the real name for it. He said whitening would be the worst thing to do as the black bits would not get brightened and would look worse against very white teeth (they are rasther yellowed.) So he suggested to my regular dentist that the teeth had the black bits scooped out and taken back to health enamal and refilled with white filling. This has worked well for a year and a half - only had one fall out in all this time, but see that it is spreading to other teeth. Check yours very carefully on the edges - it starts with just a small pin head sized hole.

    Personally, the care I got for my teeth prior to, during and adfter my cancer treatment was non exisitent.Even when I was flat out for the last 4 weeks of my radio in hospital, and couldn't get out of bed, nobody saw to it that I was washed, or had teeth care. My regular dentist doesn't even see me having had head and neck radiotherpapy as a risk of any sort. The only person who has ever said anything to me was my GP 2 weeks ago when he examined my mouth to check I didn't have a tooth abcess - I didn't - but he said, I more than anyone should be regularly seeing my dentist! A bit late now 8 years on!! Just as well I look everything up on the internet.

    oh my
    you mean you never ever saw a dental oncologist?
  • sabriene
    sabriene Member Posts: 28
    #30
    Teeth
    Yes, sounds like I am in the same boat as you are with the teeth. The rad. doctor was telling me yesterday usually you have to take 30 treatments in the chamber. In my situation the oral surgeon is saying if they need to extract one tooth, then all should be removed. I clearly understand rad. is death on teeth but I still question about taking them all out at one time. Then also oral surgeon is saying they may never be able to fit me for dentures. That does tend to upset one just a little.
  • sabriene
    sabriene Member Posts: 28
    #31
    Teeth
    Yes, sounds like I am in the same boat as you are with the teeth. The rad. doctor was telling me yesterday usually you have to take 30 treatments in the chamber. In my situation the oral surgeon is saying if they need to extract one tooth, then all should be removed. I clearly understand rad. is death on teeth but I still question about taking them all out at one time. Then also oral surgeon is saying they may never be able to fit me for dentures. That does tend to upset one just a little.
  • delnative
    delnative Member Posts: 450
    #32
    sabriene said:

    Teeth
    Yes, sounds like I am in the same boat as you are with the teeth. The rad. doctor was telling me yesterday usually you have to take 30 treatments in the chamber. In my situation the oral surgeon is saying if they need to extract one tooth, then all should be removed. I clearly understand rad. is death on teeth but I still question about taking them all out at one time. Then also oral surgeon is saying they may never be able to fit me for dentures. That does tend to upset one just a little.

    Sabriene
    Lord knows I'm no expert, only a guy who's gone through this with the help of what is possibly the world's best medical institution, Johns Hopkins. FWIW, the oral surgeon who was assigned to my case at Hopkins told me that if any teeth were in iffy condition, those teeth would have to come out. But there wasn't even a mention that if I had one bum tooth, all of them would have to come out. That just doesn't sound right. As a matter of fact, it sounds like an unneeded trauma at a time when you're going to have plenty 'nuff to deal with already.
    As it happens, I have always taken good care of my teeth, and I didn't have to have any teeth pulled. I didn't even need a filling prior to beginning treatment.
    Your mileage may vary, but I would suggest you seek a second opinion -- and that you seek out someone who's experienced in the field of radiation oncology.

    --Jim in Delaware
  • Maineman
    Maineman Member Posts: 2
    #33
    delnative said:

    Yes indeed
    It's my understanding that the hyperbaric treatments are necessary for pulling teeth, root canals and other serious stuff (but not for routine fillings or crowns).
    FWIW, my dental specialist at Johns Hopkins told me to use fluoride tray treatments for 10 minutes every night until the day I die. After that I can discontinue treatments.
    My saliva has come back almost 100 percent, but I still plan on using the fluoride trays. Heck, it can't hurt.
    I also now have three dental checkups a year instead of two, brush a lot more frequently than I used to and floss after meals, something I never used to do before. I like my teeth, and hope to keep them.
    Good luck.

    --Jim in Delaware

    Info on saliva coming back

    I had radiation treatment (7200 c. GY) eight years ago. I am having severe dry mouth. Did the fluoride trays help with this problem? I am having problems with my teeth as well. Any info on this subject would be greatly appreciated. Maineman

  • vanillasnax
    vanillasnax Member Posts: 3
    edited March 2017 #34
    x rays during Hyper bariatric treatment

    I had neoplasm of the thyroid I had surgery and then radiation later on  i had dental problems and and they sent me to get 20  treatments of bot How can the technician see on the screen how it is traveling to  Is there a  path that is visible?

  • bebo12249
    bebo12249 Member Posts: 181 Member
    edited March 2017 #35
    sweetblood22 said:

    chefdaddy
    oral stooges, lol! don't panic. it is only after you have had radiation that you need the hyperbaric treatments, not before. you are okay. did they pull all your teeth, or just some?

    they pulled my wisdom teeth, and the four next to them. my dentist has a picture of the three stooges pulling out teeth with these gigantic pliers. i find the picture very unsettling every time i am in that chair.

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