Millions reported problems with dental implants

Arizona's Family Investigates looked into the costly procedure of getting dental implants and why millions of reported problems went unnoticed.

[wrightway]

Damn some times it’s a blessing for something to be out of your tax bracket

[JCisReal]

I have a severe allergy to nickel. My dentist suggested these implants to me. I am SO thankful for this video!

[CS-bukd]

She needs to have the screws removed and start healing, then get dentures ..

[KatyMarchant-ueow]

I had one single implant 14 years ago I have been left in absolute agony and misery. I am so glad that patients are speaking out and investigators are blowing the whistle on this shocking scandal.

[VW]

NEVER give up a tooth, unless you have to!
Her teeth were fine. Dentist sounds nuts.

[carmenpereiramercado]

Thank you for exposing this horrible medical issue.

[IZRElLO]

All Dentist are not equal just like all Doctors are not, sounds like a malpractice suit to me

[HOMESTEADHEART]

Lady you are an EXCELLENT Reporter. Getting to the TRUTH is your strong point. I hope you never change. So many so called reporters just want a good story, even if it means telling lies & destroying lives. This world needs more like you. BRAVO!

[dejapex]

Kris Pickel has done an excellent in depth investigation on a topic that benefits many people. This is what journalism used to be like. Thanks

[inspiredone]

This is some of the best reporting I’ve seen lately. Useful.

[crystalwilson]

I'd also like to add that if ALL journalists were this thorough and this honest today then this world would be a much better place. Truly, I'm so glad to see a true journalist again.... It's been quite some time since I last encountered one.

[Chelovyek]

I don't think most people realize how common dental fraud is.

[lynncuthbert]

This needs to be made public. This is a huge industry and a business. Health seems to be less important than money.

[gott]

I'd need to know more about that woman's story at the beginning. If I visited the dentist and was told out of the blue that I needed to replace 21 teeth, it's time for a new dentist!

[Lady-Evonne]

No decent dentist would tell a patient to remove healthy teeth. They try to get you to keep your natural teeth for as long as you can. Some of the dentists are unscrupulous quacks.

[myrad.florence]

I shared this video with my momma. She was contemplating the dental implants but decided against them. She was fitted for dentures instead. I'm glad she decided against the implants.

[wack]

That Doctor is full of it. My heart goes out to that woman.

[Paul-ourx]

I had to go to an oral surgeon to have a fragment of a wisdom tooth removed that was missed. He said that I had 8 more teeth that had to come out and could do them right then.
I left and 18 years later still have all 8 of those teeth in my mouth. Vacations homes don't come cheap I guess.

[angelaschmidt]

I can tell my sad story about implants.
I got my first 2 titanium implants 2010 in my lawer jaw. Couple months later they have been removed because of inflammation. I had for around 2 years facial pains, some teeth have been removed. Then the colleague of the dentist said at first we need to calm down your facual pains before doing anything. I got for six months twice in a week shots in my gums to calm down the nervs. Finally my face stopped hurting. Then the surgeon did bone grafting and after healing inserted 3 ceramic implants in my lawer jaw, and one in my upper jaw in 2011. Both the screws and the crown have been ceramic. My bidy accepted the implants, however couple times in the year I had inflammations around the crowns, got every time antibiotic shots and coild deal with them for 11 years. Unfortunately, 2022 one crown came down because of inflammation in my upper jaw, the jaw bone was reduced, then the inflammation was also in my lawer jaw around the implants, that means I had periimplantitis. The surgeon tried to clean it, was unsuccessful. At the end after 3 surgeries all my implants have been removed and I lost also a lot of jaw bone plus incredible pains. Now, the pains are almost gone after 2 months. However, I can not even get dentures, because they will not fit since my jaw bone is so reduced. One dentist told me that even my jaw bone could brake. Now, I will go to a university hospital to get consulting if probably a jaw bone graft can be done or not to get partial dentures, and I am in my 30😔.
I mean, implants may work for many people but for my it was a horrible time period and it is not done yet.
If you can keep your teeth, do anything possible to keep them. If not, have a lot of consulting before making the decision for implants.

[journey]

I read that Dick Van Dyke was one of the early recipients of dental implants, and that he suffered ill health for years before he figured out what was causing it....it was the implants. He said that after he had them removed his health returned, and he regretted all of those years he had suffered.