has anyone lost a tooth or teeth, without being on osteoporosis drugs?

[MayGodBlessYou]

i know, people lose teeth, i wonder what the rate of tooth loss is in people who have been on OP drugs.

i have teeth that have chipped, without me being on OP drugs.

have your teeth chipped, before any OP drugs?

have they split?

endocrinologist said she doesn't believe dentist who linked prolia to tooth fracture; i said, no, it was a GP who said it. she said she believes it is osteoporosis affecting the tooth, not prolia. well if that's so, i say it should be the first fracture to take notice of as a sign of osteoporosis or drugs getting bad.

she then said losing teeth pales in comparison to osteoporosis damage - but, but didn't she just say that tooth loss IS due to osteoporosis?

anyway, my heart is down low.

[MayGodBlessYou]

if you lost teeth, was it one at a time?were they upper teeth or lower teeth?

[MWZ3]

Autoimmune does that too. First tooth I lost many years ago, dentist said it was autoimmune. Old age causes teeth to go bad as well. At nearly 80 I expect to lose them over time. Sugar is probably the worst enemy of teeth.

Osteoporosis cannot be blamed for everything as much as it’s the going thing to do lol.

[Adlon57]

I had a bad time with Lamictal which I was taking for my epilepsy, I was on it for a long time, teeth actually working loose, I have osteoporosis, deformed chest structure, pigeon chest, left over from meningitis when I was small, which became life threatening when taking Decapeptyl SR injections for 'suspected' PC🙄 BUT it was my dentist that told me about the Lamictal, a considerable improvement since taking myself off the stuff, and less dentist appointments🤗 I never took any drugs for my osteoporosis! My Health Centre told me in Feb 2023 "there was nothing more they could do for me" when inspecting my chest [pushing a rib out 😵] diagnosed PC in June 2022!

[MayGodBlessYou in reply to Adlon57]

good on you taking yourself off lamictal, not that i have a clue what that is.what's PC? thanks

[Adlon57 in reply to MayGodBlessYou]

I have had epilepsy since 1970, it was one of my medications, I was taken off it, it has other side effects. PC stands for Prostate Cancer, I was diagnosed with it in June 2022, whether I have it still up for debate, but the hormone injections they gave me, caused life threatening reactions with my rib cage/pigeon chest osteoporosis, I am terminally ill with broken skull, irreparable brain damage already since July 2021.

[Jemi7266]

When I was first diagnosed with severe osteoporosis, I didn’t take any OP drugs for one yr and I didn’t lose or chip a tooth.

[laniado]

Good morning. I’ m encouraged to see people taking stock of dental issues and osteoporosis. I replied last time to you when you wrote in because as a dentist I’m very familiar with these problems. OP drugs do not cause chipping or fracturing of teeth. The OP side effect to the mouth is over-densification of alveolar bone. This means that your jaws lose blood supply. OP drugs do not cause periodontal disease. If your gums are kept healthy by brushing and flossing 2X a day you should be able to keep most issues at bay.

[MayGodBlessYou in reply to laniado]

osteoporosis has 'side effects'? i don't know what periodontal disease is.

some dentists know of the effect of OP drugs, the GP made the link,

we probably won't be changing each other's minds,

my Mum has brushed and flossed for decades,

i can barely talk about it, so if you can make observations about which teeth break and how and when in relation to when the drug was administered, you could probably see which teeth are lost by effect of drugs and which are not, i thank you for it

[nottowell]

Unfortunately it is a known fact that all oesteporosis drugs affect the jaw normally the dentist will refer you to the maxifacial clinic in your nearest hospital to have any teeth removed.

[MaggieSylvie]

I took Alendronic Acid for nine months until I read about the damage it could do to teeth/jawbones. A while after that, at an appointment, the dentist commented that my lower back teeth on one side seemed to have lifted! I hadn't noticed and I don't think there's any harm done, but the dentist was surprised, didn't know why, and days later, I suddenly remembered why I had stopped AA. If I have osteoporosis, it is not too advanced, and I am nearly 79. So I have little doubt what caused my jaw bone to change position.

[DeannaAlphi]

Hi. I lost 6 teeth in a short time, upper and lower, before I was diagnosed with Osteoporosis. The first one crumbled and broke in half while I was eating a soft piece of cake. Before the appointment to have it properly removed, another broke. Because it was so close to my jaw bone, my dentist wanted me to have it out at the hospital. By the time I attended my hospital appointment .....4 more teeth broke. They were all back teeth, molars. None of the teeth were bad or infected and I had no pain. I was in my early 50s at the time and had them all taken out at the same time. I asked my dentist if my bones would crumble in the same way? She said it was very unlikely.

I have reflected on what may have caused this. I took progesterone mini pills for many years which stopped my periods. It seemed that when I stopped taking these pills, the teeth started crumbling. I suspect but cannot know. I also wonder if they were the teeth which I had the black flllings removed and replaced with white ones. This may have made the teeth more fragile. I'm 69 years old now and thankfully still have some of my own teeth.

I wish I'd asked my doctor instead of the dentist....a few years later I fainted and had two vertebral compression fractures. After that I had a bad wrist fracture. Even with these fractures and a diagnosis of severe osteoporosis, I have never, and will never take any of the medications. My mother took them and suffered necrosis of the jaw, having to have a bone graft in order to wear dentures. I believe some of the medications may help some people, I prefer to do what I can to help myself without using chemicals from which medications are made. ...having had severe reactions from other medications I had taken in the past. Di Doh

[MayGodBlessYou in reply to DeannaAlphi]

very sorrt that's happened and thanks for relaying this info as it's of interest to me

[MayGodBlessYou]

my Mother is suffering, my heart is breaking, not sure what benefit my mother has had from pr*lia but there certainly isn't any now, i can't talk about it, i had no idea that life and health and drugs could be so bad.

thanks people for discussing.

[MayGodBlessYou in reply to MayGodBlessYou]

i'm observing that root canals have been around for decades, for middle aged and not elderly people, maybe long before osteoporosis and drug campaigning, so ... i can't attribute all and every tooth loss to drug effects ... i read that dentists and dental surgeons might not communicate much with doctors and specialists due to not wanting to disagree or offend ...

[Justme16 in reply to MayGodBlessYou]

Can you please explain the link between root canals and osteoporosis? Thanks