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[Chickielady]

@penny1960 :

I have seen some little old ladies with dentures for 6-10 years bite into an apple and snap their mandible right in half as it was so very thin & brittle...and I am sure Osteoporosis can play a big part, although how much it effect the mandible and maxillary areas, I am not sure.
I know osteoporosis can really effect hips, pelvis, long bones, for example.
Dr. Oz said one day, that we should all stand on a step, like the bottom of stairs, holding the rail, and jump down to the floor...which is about 11 inches, and do it as many times as you can , per day, to strengthen hips, knees, leg bones.
Use, lessens the ravages of osteoporosis...so lift weights !

 

[Chickielady]

My hubby is needing a pile of dental work. He was semi-retired but got a job partially for the dental insurance and money to pay for it. It is sad it has to be so expensive. On a chicken note, I did a quick shell check under my broody Wyandotte Goldie and found yet another cracked one. This time I waxed it and put it in the incubator that was already going. 8 more days to go! At least this one was a hairline crack only, and the membrane is fine. She is the sweetest thing but she does not know how to be gentle. She pecked me in the eye once and took a nice chunk out of my cornea. Expensive chicken!

HOLY COW! I am glad you can still see (I hope !)
And after that, please give thought to the fact of Goldie's clumsiness (or is it intentional ?) as once the babies are of their shells, they will have no protection at all from her stomping !
If Goldie can break eggs, she can smash those babies !
I'd hate to see your heart broken !
If it were me, I would take the live eggs away & lock them down in an incubator, and then give Goldie golf balls or get her some cheap chicks from the feed store.
Seriously!
I had a turkey hen who was the best at incubation, she'd handle 15-20 eggs, and was to be counted on as the best !
But once hatched, she stomped them to smithereens !
Time proved it again, either she stomped them, or she knocked them out of the nest to let them wander in the freezing rain of a February in Western Washington.
I finally took steps to remove her eggs just before they hatched, to an incubator, and gave her golf balls.

 

[Chickielady]

It gets expensive real quick. My crowns were bad. I had to do one a year. Hubby has been getting some implants slowly.

When I was your age....LOL I had about 29 teeth full gold crowns, and half of those had root canals beforehand.
Since I have celiac disease, they say my scarred digestive tract means bad bad bad absorption, which means bad hair, bad nails, a body that thinks it is starving as insufficient nutrients make into the blood, and in "starvation mode" not much energy is released, and fat is stored ...yes I have no problem storing fat !


But my teeth have suffered since I was a little brat....thin enamel, brittle teeth...bad occlusal caries from day one.
Occlusal caries are the cavities that form in the "valleys" of your teeth, where they meet each other.
So.the message here is: bone loss happens (hence the saying "getting long in the tooth") and when gums retract, it exposes the root, which is not covered by the crown...and so you get root caries, and no gold crown can save the tooth.
I think the best thing I could ever do, is have ALL my teeth pulled as a child (or preteen, once the mandible is fully grown) and have ALL implants put in.
That would have saved so much money !
Each one of these gold crowns was about $2000. to $2500. and now it is over $3000. a tooth for implants.

 

[Hinotori]

@Chickielady

I got some done when we had military covered dental. It covered 40-50%. We saved up slowly for it. It was painful money wise. Expensive area and hardly enough pay to survive.

Hubby's implants are out of pocket. We talked to them and they gave a discount for us just paying it in full at time of service. No insurance hassle for them or waiting for money. So many dentists will give a discount. It's still nasty expensive.

My last crown was $1200. If I could go back in time and slap that dentist who screwed up a cavity job causing me to need a root canal (which he also botched) I would. The slow infection from that killed four of my roots. I'd have had to get implants if the navy dentists didn't catch the problem when I went to boot camp.

I've asked mom why she took me back to him after the first issue and she said because he was the only dentist in the next town covered by their limited insurance then. The other dentist didn't take it (small town problems).

 

[Hinotori]

@penny1960 :

I have seen some little old ladies with dentures for 6-10 years bite into an apple and snap their mandible right in half as it was so very thin & brittle...and I am sure Osteoporosis can play a big part, although how much it effect the mandible and maxillary areas, I am not sure.
I know osteoporosis can really effect hips, pelvis, long bones, for example.
Dr. Oz said one day, that we should all stand on a step, like the bottom of stairs, holding the rail, and jump down to the floor...which is about 11 inches, and do it as many times as you can , per day, to strengthen hips, knees, leg bones.
Use, lessens the ravages of osteoporosis...so lift weights !

Weights are good for bones. Don't have to be heavy. Just move with them. Work all the groups to get all the bones working harder

 

[pennyJo1960]

@penny1960 :

I have seen some little old ladies with dentures for 6-10 years bite into an apple and snap their mandible right in half as it was so very thin & brittle...and I am sure Osteoporosis can play a big part, although how much it effect the mandible and maxillary areas, I am not sure.
I know osteoporosis can really effect hips, pelvis, long bones, for example.
Dr. Oz said one day, that we should all stand on a step, like the bottom of stairs, holding the rail, and jump down to the floor...which is about 11 inches, and do it as many times as you can , per day, to strengthen hips, knees, leg bones.
Use, lessens the ravages of osteoporosis...so lift weights !

I cut apples if I want one but never allow myself to sit and whine work through it god and tramadol so far my bone density is good doc keeps checking... James and I both are disabled but on ssi and medicare I know

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have two lb and 5 lb I exercise with the closing of my spinal column in my neck I
limited with weights but not walking I do close to 5 miles a day

 

[MonicaWA]

HOLY COW! I am glad you can still see (I hope !)
And after that, please give thought to the fact of Goldie's clumsiness (or is it intentional ?) as once the babies are of their shells, they will have no protection at all from her stomping !
If Goldie can break eggs, she can smash those babies !
I'd hate to see your heart broken !
If it were me, I would take the live eggs away & lock them down in an incubator, and then give Goldie golf balls or get her some cheap chicks from the feed store.
Seriously!
I had a turkey hen who was the best at incubation, she'd handle 15-20 eggs, and was to be counted on as the best !
But once hatched, she stomped them to smithereens !
Time proved it again, either she stomped them, or she knocked them out of the nest to let them wander in the freezing rain of a February in Western Washington.
I finally took steps to remove her eggs just before they hatched, to an incubator, and gave her golf balls.

Dang, should I take them away now? She seems so relaxed and calm. I wonder if she is getting off the nest when I am not looking and the flopping back on top of them. I know she pushes them with her beak. I never had this problem with my Wilma. Goldie is a dumb cluck! I wish I had confidence with the incubator. If I leave them she might crack them. If I take them I could mess them up. Shoot me now. Decisions, decisions!

 

[MonicaWA]

Well, Goldie has been officially fired. I found her sitting on different eggs and one of my Barred Rocks were sitting on hers. The BR isn't broody so she was just babysitting. I candled a couple and they chicks were moving. Now they are in the incubator. It has NOT been a good day. Mac, my Black Lab got sprayed by a skunk this morning. Arrrggg.

 

[mixedbreeds]

Well, Goldie has been officially fired. I found her sitting on different eggs and one of my Barred Rocks were sitting on hers. The BR isn't broody so she was just babysitting. I candled a couple and they chicks were moving. Now they are in the incubator. It has NOT been a good day. Mac, my Black Lab got sprayed by a skunk this morning. Arrrggg.

That is truly a bad day you can probably figure it will be a better day tomorrow as long as you get Mac cleaned up today. So sorry the skunk thing happened to one of my dogs long ago yuk