oh, and I have three implants... they are all on the side of my mouth though. i got them when i had my wisdom teeth taken out so i luckily was unconscious. they are good stuff. my friend steve took a fall on his bike about a year ago and had an implant put in the front of his mouth which ws rejected by his body and the bone wouldn't accept the post so he had to have it removed recently.

i have implants because i never grew adult teeth in three places. two of those places still had baby teeth which the doc thought would be easy to pull, but it turned out that they had fused to my jawbone. to get them out he had to clamp down and rock them back and forth until the bone connecting them began to crack and break. hearing that noise in my skull almost made the vomit