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Patient story · Deciding

'Is this going to be my life? Root canal here, root canal there, a little crown there.'

Abdell · Traveled to Florida · 1 year on

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Ep. 5634 minAbdell did the math on the next 20 yearsPatient interviewWith Abdell · June 16, 2026

Abdell did the math on twenty more years of patch-ups.

Before

Abdell has a long dental history, and a common one.

"I've been having dental problems since sixth grade. I've been through dentists, orthodontists, prosthodontists, periodontists, over time, up and down, like most people out there. Implant here, implant there, a cavity repair here, an extraction there, over the years."

Each of those treatments made sense at the time. Nothing had really gone wrong. It just never stopped.

When he did the math

He knows exactly what changed, and it wasn't a crisis.

"At some point, if you are smart, and you do some basic statistical evaluation and projection, you realize - is this going to be my life? Jumping up and down, root canal here, root canal there, little crown there. There should be a more permanent fix somewhere."

There was no pain and no emergency behind his decision. He looked at where the pattern was heading and decided the pattern itself was the problem.

The Saturday

He had already started his research when something small tipped the balance.

"I had, at the time, a chair-side prosthesis. This is a temporary prosthesis that most dentists make that is not intended for long-term at all. That's what I had, and it broke, because I spent like five years with it - I was eating something soft, and it broke on a Saturday."

If you're in the same spot, this may sound familiar.

"I felt my body turn - heat, stress, for a moment. I embraced that moment, and then I knew what I had to do."

He didn't panic, and he didn't go looking for another patch. He took the break as his sign and acted on the research he had already done.

Committing

He talks about it as a choice he made.

"Do I want to go back and suffer, or do I want to commit and go forward all the way, all in? I felt emotionally, internally, all in, fully committed. We're going to tackle this problem once and for all the right way, rather than root canal today, extraction two years."

What helped most

When we asked what made the process work, his first answer had nothing to do with the clinical side.

"The structure that you guys provided. You provided clarity, and I never for a moment had question - oh, what should I eat, or, am I out of bounds? You were very clear and simple. So I lived by that simple structure."

He names it ahead of the surgery. At every step, he knew what he was supposed to be doing.

This page was built from the recording of Ep. 56. The quotations are edited to read on the page: filler words taken out, repeated words dropped, a dash for a hesitation or for words left out. Nothing added, nothing reordered, nothing put in the speaker's mouth.

If this sounds like you

Many people come to us after something goes wrong, like a front tooth, an infection or a denture that never fit. Abdell came to us after doing the math.

If you've been fixing your teeth one procedure at a time for years, and nothing is an emergency right now, his story may be the one for you.

Outcomes vary. Whether a permanent solution is right for you depends on your own scan and circumstances.

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