Category: Implant Saga

I didn’t intend to write the next stage in my saga until I had the next appointment. However, lots of…

Wow! What a day. Off to Middlemore, then Auckland Hospital, then back to Middlemore. We left at 7.50 and got…

I was happy on 13 September when waxy model teeth were placed in my mouth. I knew surgery had to…

It was with a sense of fatalism that I went to my prosthodontic appointment on Tuesday. It has been 10…

Up til now it has been so unheard of for a head and neck cancer patient like me to have…

Chapter three or four in my implant story and I feel sad. I know people envy me for getting four…

I am not disappointed or surprised that my wildly hopeful implant abutment procedure has hit some problems. It was always…

This is monumental for me. Where do I begin? Maybe at the start, eight years ago when I lost my…

I’m 75 today. I was born in Whakatane in 1946 and I’ve outlived my poor mother who died at 69….

Things moved slowly and now they are going pretty damn fast. Saw a big medical team last Friday, the prosthodontist…