Fun with Doctors!

Yesterday Tony had his implants put in (and if you are a fb friend of his, you can see a hilarious conversation that happened about them). Yes, there are many kinds of implants, but his were of the teeth variety. So, he has two metal nubs coming out of his gums (and he still wears the retainer with the four false teeth on it). In four months, they will fit the teeth onto the implants and then make a permanent bridge for the middle two teeth. The reason they can't do four implants is because the two teeth that were knocked out during the plane crash had recessed bone. Since he wasn't able to do any dental work for three months after his face surgery and then there was the 2nd jaw surgery, braces, etc. The bone recessed and there's no way there could be successful implants there. They are just doing implants where the teeth were just broken and they extracted them. I'm not even sure I'm following my own explanantion. haha

Today, Tony had his post-op appointment with the orthopedic surgeon. They removed the soft cast and we got to see his surgical wounds for the first time. There's the incision on his calf where they cut the tendon (to allow for movement) and then a really long scar on one side of the foot and a shorter one on the other side. They put a regular cast on him today and then in two weeks they'll remove stitches and he'll be able to put a little weight on it.

Thankfully, Tony's oral surgeon is in Olympia where we got to see some good friends and then today we had a playdate before the ortho so we've had some fun times too.