Hi gang, I wasn’t quite sure where to put this. I finished chemo June last year, everything was going well untll I discovered a loose tooth a couple of months ago, I had a check up on Thursday and was told all of my front top teeth are loose, apparently affected by treatment 
so the realy loose one has to come out, 3 old crowns removed and a bridge consisting of 12 crowns, to the grand total of £3350 
, I know I should/am thankfull that the cancer is gone but realy? I am more worried about the dentist chair than the op.
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Thank you for posting this. I had no idea that chemo could affect teeth. I wonder if this is more common than we know? Family members who have had chemo talk about hair loss and stripey finger nails. I wonder if you could have held your teeth in place with a brace, whether they would eventually firm up again. All speculation of course.
Good luck with the enormous cost of it.
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Unfortunatly dentist said if I don’t have the bridge, the teeth will just get looser (they will never become firm) and would need to come out, my other options were to have a denture to cover the loose tooth, or 2 dental implants at £3000 a tooth but neither option would help protect all the others, whereas the bridge supports them all. I had the treatment this morning, hated every minute, at least 8 injections, plus another tooth had to come out as there was an abcess in the gap above the root 
It sounds ghastly. Poor you.
I think I would be concerned about pulling the tooth out with the abscess. Have they given you antibiotics?
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No antibiotics, touch wood, apart from being a little tender, its healing well, though I cant actually see, as there are tempory teeth in place, just being super careful not to eat anything hard or chewey, I was peed off not being able to drown my sorrows in wine, cant have any for a week after extractions.
I had cancer first at twenty years old and despite taking good care of my teeth and gums the treatment gave me gum disease, I finally ended up with dentures at 45 years old. I was gutted and cried for a while but I was still cancer free, luckier than others, so realistically I had to have a word with myself and accept it as small bump in the road of life. I have a different cancer now at 56yrs old…breast cancer, it feels so unfair but a few weeks ago, a lovely, beautiful woman that I know collapsed at work and was given only three weeks to live, she passed within those three weeks. It makes me feel petty about my cancer treatment problems and moans and so sad that she couldn’t have the opportunity for treatment. So when your feeling low, look outside your own front door for clarity because there’s always someone worse off than yourself. Luck and love to everyone going through this hard and life saving journey and remember in the end it will have been worth it
Good morning, ladies 
… I finished 5-months of chemotherapy at the beginning of August for TNBC - and - prior to starting treatment in March, I had a dental check-up of which was all good … I had another check-up two weeks ago and my dentist said that my gums have been heavily affected by the chemotherapy, gum recession was considerable so she has prescribed me a high fluoride toothpaste and I’m back again in October to monitor it … it wasn’t something that I expected!! My eyesight has deteriorated a lot as well … I wear a hearing-aid and I’m going for a review today as I know that my hearing has also deteriorated 
… it’s like all-or-nothing! 
… but yeah, teeth / gums … I didn’t expect that!