Feeling hopeless after tooth extraction

[frasier2018]

Hi, all. I'm new to this forum. I've just have been lurking for a few weeks now and found this forum to be one of the better forums out there.

I wanted to share where my head is at right now. For starters, I've had horrible anxiety for the last 1 1/2 years since I quit my job because of a bad boss which I regretted a few weeks after I quit. Since then, looking for jobs and going to interviews has taken its toll on me. I was able to find a couple of jobs but stupidly quit them too soon because I wasn't fond of the work. All this has turned me into a big ball of anxiety. However, I still had hope that I could turn everything around until I went to the oral surgeon regarding my infected tooth. He advised me to pull the tooth out since it was cracked below the gum line. Instead of getting a second opinion, I decided to just pull it since he was insistent that it couldn't be saved. Since the tooth has been extracted, my bite has been off and I feel that I am damaging my other teeth because of my off bite. Now, I'm having a tough time enjoying my food which is a big enjoyment in life to help counteract my anxiety. I know it is just a tooth but it feels like I have a whole new set of problems to deal with that will cause me tremendous anxiety. A few days before I got the tooth extracted, I felt I had made some progress with my anxiety and felt hopeful but now I'm even lower than I have been before. I'm not sure at all of how to deal with this except to go to a dentist and get an implant but that will take months before that can happen and I'm not too fond of getting an implant in the first place. I'm searching for any advice that can get me to see this in a better light because I'm feeling very down right now because of this tooth.

 

[triceps]

Hi, all. I'm new to this forum. I've just have been lurking for a few weeks now and found this forum to be one of the better forums out there.

I wanted to share where my head is at right now. For starters, I've had horrible anxiety for the last 1 1/2 years since I quit my job because of a bad boss which I regretted a few weeks after I quit. Since then, looking for jobs and going to interviews has taken its toll on me. I was able to find a couple of jobs but stupidly quit them too soon because I wasn't fond of the work. All this has turned me into a big ball of anxiety. However, I still had hope that I could turn everything around until I went to the oral surgeon regarding my infected tooth. He advised me to pull the tooth out since it was cracked below the gum line. Instead of getting a second opinion, I decided to just pull it since he was insistent that it couldn't be saved. Since the tooth has been extracted, my bite has been off and I feel that I am damaging my other teeth because of my off bite. Now, I'm having a tough time enjoying my food which is a big enjoyment in life to help counteract my anxiety. I know it is just a tooth but it feels like I have a whole new set of problems to deal with that will cause me tremendous anxiety. A few days before I got the tooth extracted, I felt I had made some progress with my anxiety and felt hopeful but now I'm even lower than I have been before. I'm not sure at all of how to deal with this except to go to a dentist and get an implant but that will take months before that can happen and I'm not too fond of getting an implant in the first place. I'm searching for any advice that can get me to see this in a better light because I'm feeling very down right now because of this tooth.

The bite problem will straighten itself out. It just feels so strange to you right now. You've got plenty of time to get an implant sometime in the future when everything settles down if you feel like it. If you can look at this as a tooth loss and not make anything larger of it, I think your enjoyment of food will come back when you realize that you can't damage your teeth by eating, only if you start grinding them.

 

[frasier2018]

The bite problem will straighten itself out. It just feels so strange to you right now. You've got plenty of time to get an implant sometime in the future when everything settles down if you feel like it. If you can look at this as a tooth loss and not make anything larger of it, I think your enjoyment of food will come back when you realize that you can't damage your teeth by eating, only if you start grinding them.

Thanks for the good advice. I guess I really haven't given it enough time. Things like teeth are a balancing act too, I sometimes forget that. I think I also get very mad at myself for making another bad decision when I start turning the corner on my anxiety which gets me deeper into a hole. I feel like I'm always sabotaging myself lately. Maybe bad decisions are just that much easier when you have anxiety. Again, thanks for the good advice.