Hey Everyone. You have all made some great points.
I wish I could say my dentist was being a jerk. But......I did some research online about implants and the ALL SAY that the biggest threat to successful/permanent dental implants is smoking. This is because of the "sucking" interfearing with clotting/healing and because nicotine and all the other crap in an analog cause lack of good blood flow/oxygenation to the site of the implant.
Like someone said.....this damn implant is gonna cost me around $5000 bucks and I am neurotic as hell about loosing teeth.
It is good to know some of your had NO problems in spite of smoking.
This helps me is a big help because my plan is to go to zero nicotine and not smoke analogs at all.
BUT........if I get to crazy and have to cheat a little...........my $5000 implant is probably not gonna fall out of my head !!
Good points, all.
I smoked through two root canals, which I was told would create all kinds of problems, including dry socket or something like that. Everything worked out fine. I think you have to be in pretty poor health in general and/or have other medical problems to have issues with a procedure like this. If that's the case, you probably shouldn't be smoking, anyway. ;-)