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IMPLANTATION AND EXPLANTATION ON PATIENT'S INSISTENCE

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We placed in the upper anterior implants carefully and everything healed uneventfully.  However, when the patient returned, he insisted that we remove them, the reason being that, "He just could not accept them as part of his mouth and body!" This was a realization that he had only after he had the implants placed. After numerous attempts to persuade him otherwise, we finally accepted the fact that the patient for some reason beyond us, cannot accept the dental implants as part of his mouth and body. By then, the implants were fully osseointegrated and ready for harvesting and prosthodontics.  So near, yet so far!!!! Rest assured, we tried our level utmost to convince the patient how simple the prosthodontics were and how much he already paid and what a boon a set of fixed teeth as compared to his dentures were. With all the preliminary exercises in persuasion and explainations done conscientiously, we got the patient to sign a carefully worded consent form indemnifying us fr