Oxycontin Damaged My Teeth (Page 6)

Has anyone else known oxycontin to rot the teeth? I used to be on vicodin until my doctor told me I needed to switch to a morphine based meds. She put me on ms contin but I had problems with it so she put me on 80mg oxycontin. Eventually my body built up a tolerance so she kept raising it, i have am now on from 4-6 per day of the 80mg tabs. It scares me that this is what rotted my teeth because only 5 yrs ago i had only 2 cavities that needed filling and then only 1 yr after going on the oxycontin i had to have all my top front teeth pulled as they where rotting from the inside out the dentist said my mouth looked like a heroin addict's mouth looks. He said it was shocking to him that normally he only saw such damage from someone who abused drugs with so much dental damage, but i have never done any street drugs and have only take my meds as prescribed to me. Now i have lost 80% of my teeth and as a beautiful 41 yr old mother its devastating. I cant afford dentures and sure cant afford implants like i would like to have. I am a single mother and refuse to date because i have lost my teeth now, i had beautiful teeth before i started on the oxycontin and only 2 small cavities that needed filling. Does anyone else have this same problem and if so why hasn't the company making oxycontin warn patients of this possible problem?

If i had known this would cause me to lose most of my teeth i would have never agreed to go on it. Of course my family doctor who has been prescribing them tells me she hasn't heard of any other cases, yet when i researched the med online there where others like this why hasn't something been put in the warnings about this med, i sure would have preferred to have lived in pain the rest of my life rather than lose my teeth and be unable to even eat now. My health has gone downhill fast as i cant even chew foods necessary for good health. All I can eat now are yogurts, and liquid type of foods which isn't much. My kids are 7 and 9 yrs old and they watch me cry when we go out to eat and they order steak, and i can smell it but can't order one as i know i wont be able to chew it. This is so devastating for me. I want teeth so badly if i could wish for anything in life besides not to be poor anymore it would be to have a full set of real teeth or implants but i could never dream of having them, and i don't know anyone out there willing to just help me get any either. I have always helped others all my life, but cant even help myself, i have had to have 29 surgeries now since 1991 when a drunk driver hit my car and caused me major injuries with my lower back and knees, i have had a full lower back fusion and 8 arthroscopic knee surgeries until a year ago they finally had to do a full right knee replacement and now they are talking about doing my left knee soon.

So my life has been up and down with surgeries and i would go thru one more surgery just to have teeth implanted if i could. but i could never afford it, but i would like to know why these drug manufacturers are making a medication that could cause teeth to rot like this without warning us patients or even warning the doctors about it. This is just terrible of them i think, as now i am the one paying for this by having no teeth to eat with at such a young age now. I am a vibrant young 41 yr old at 5'3, 120lbs, slim woman, nice looking too as i was a model in my younger days, so i keep my looks up. But to have no teeth now... I never smile anymore, I am to ashamed to smile even though it wasn't my fault i lost my teeth. I think they should pay for me to have new teeth but no one wants to admit that the med causes it, but my diet wasn't the problem back when i started the medication and i wasn't drinking coca-cola either or doing street drugs so i know that wasn't the cause either. The only thing that changed within one year to cause this was starting the oxycontin medication. Well, if anyone out there can help me let me know thanks.

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Hi, Sorry to hear you are having problems with teeth from the oxycontin, I to had problems finally all teeth extracted and finally replaced with dentures once we could afford them. People do not realize the severity of oxycontin/oxycodone and problems related and who is responsible, all I will say is money speaks and a lot of cover up involved and the new remoxy is worse but government does nothing

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What a bunch of crap. I have M.S. and am losing my teeth from the meds and steroids I am on. Quite possibly in the small print it said I would lose my teeth, but what options do we have? You either take the drugs or get worse, not all of us use drugs for "fun". Some of you people are real asses.

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tysvm for understanding my story, and yes my story is what happens when people get drunk and get behind a wheel they hurt innocent people like myself a single mother with 3 sons, and i will never be the same after that accident, as i was a student in college back , and a mother and i was very active and vibrant and healthy before the car accident, and once i was prescribed the oxycontin it devasted me by drying out my mouth and everything i told my family doctor who prescribed it that my mouth was dry, she just kept telling me to drink more water which didnt help, when my teeth started falling apart my family doctor even said she called the makers of oxycontin and she said they told her that there was no relationship between oxycontin and tooth decay at all, or even dry mouth, it wasnt until within the past 2 yrs that the manufacters have actually admitted there is a relationship between the oxycontin and the dry mouth and tooth decay, even my pharmacy told me there was no reason they could relate the oxycontin to my dry mouth and tooth decay back when i first got on it, and it started devasting my teeth, course now the medication makers and pharmacies, and doctors are all now admitting that the medication in fact does cause severe tooth decay, and my family doctor has even told me if the makers of the med had openly admitted that the medication would cause tooth decay due to it causing dry mouth back then when i first got it, my doctor said if they had admitted it back then my doctor could have taken actions to try to have prevented it from occuring and my loosing my teeth, but my doctor said the makers of it back totally denyed it was the cause of it, yet i had great teeth all my life and i took care of my teeth very well all my life, and only few months after being on oxycontin my teeth broke in half on the top ones because they had dried out so badly, even my dentist was stunned at what was happening to my teeth and how quickly my teeth where getting so bad, as my dentist said my gosh you take care of your teeth and always have had great strong teeth, this makes no sense, when i told him my family doctor had put me on oxycontin my dentist said well there is no documention relating tooth damage or decay to oxycontin yet, but now on every site, there is information relating tooth loss to oyxcontin, i think that the manufactur knew for years it would cause this, but they kept denying it not only to patients like myself but to doctors too. course now they admit it causes it, so i think that the manufacters knew to their negligance back then in informing us patients and the manufactures purposely denying the relationship between taking oxycontin and tooth loose back then i think they should have to re-imburse us who suffered tooth looses due to them trying to hide the fact that their med they manufactured in fact does cause dry mouth, tooth loose.

seeing now they have decided to include information in the medication when its prescribed at pharmacies, but even pharmatist back when i first got on it, told me that they had no documentions which stated anything about it causing dry mouth or tooth loose back when i first got it , so i think we should find an attorney and sue them for negligance and them purposely trying to hide the relationship between tooth loose and dry mouth and that medication. because if they had included that information back then my doctor told me she could have prescribed me a saliva increaser medication along with the oxycontin and it would have prevented me from loosing my teeth, but everytime my doctor called the manufacturer they told her that their medication oxycontin did not cause dry mouth and that it did not cause tooth loss, so i think their denying the real things that do happen to teeth that they should have to pay for me to get full implants as this loss of my teeth has been totally devasting when it could have been prevented had the manufacter been totally honest back when i first got on them.

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well number one you sit there and say you want to buy them, well wouldnt do any good anyways, as all of them are now the new formula which i am not sure why you would want to buy them unless your taking them orally like the rest of us on here and i need mine for my pain you know.

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i DO know who you are, but i have never asked for anyone to give me money with the promise to repay anyone, yes i have had some send me money to help me and my kids, but they never ever asked me to repay them, that would be pointless to offer me money and then turn around ask me to pay it back that would be not only rude thing to do, if you help someone out you dont ask for it back when you know they have no way to pay it back , i am low income, on ssi, and what little someone has ever sent me was so small it didnt even help much , usualy it was only enough to get a gallon of milk or a few groceries, so i want to know why you seem to wish to make me out to be some begger when i am not, you obviously dont know me personally, or you would know i am the kindest person, honest, and always up front i tell it like it is and have always been that way, so obviously you have a huge grudge on your shoulder but you dont know me. so to sit here and say i have several listing asking for help, theres nothing wrong with having several listing online, my gosh thats the great thing about the internet it lets everyone put out there in this world things that they may need help with. but obviously you walk thru life blaming others for your own personal grudges, and sounds like you just dont woman, so i have reported your statement on this site hopefully they remove your rude and unnecessary remarks about me which are extrememly untrue.

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Angela, I have a good friend that took pain killers after being burnt on the bottom of her feet and her hands and arms she also developed rotten teeth that had to be pulled and caused mouth infections. I did hear of something called snap on smile teeth that you just take out to sleep. Also the dental clinic in Florance South Carolina has very inexpensive dentures ,just google affordable dentures in Florance South Carolina. I hope this helps.

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to burgerflinger, you know that there are side effects to pain medications and what you are not understanding is that physicians and pharmacists do not tell you that you can develop tooth decay because of the Billions of dollars they make and we know that physicians and pharmacists all get kick backs for using their product. WE ARE THE PATIENTS AND SHOULDN'T HAVE KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT WE TAKE IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PROFESSIONALS TO TELL US THAT THERE MAY BE A POSSIBILITY

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ty for understanding and your right we are the patient and we are taught to trust our doctor and what they say, and when my doctor kept telling me that there was no link between the oxycontin causing tooth rot and she kept saying that the company that makes them told her that their medication doesnt do that, then what was i supposed to believe you know, i begged my doctor to please put me something else all because i did believe that they where causing the tooth decay but she said there was nothing else she could put me that would be as effective on the pain as the oxycontin was. i trusted her, now she is not even my doctor anymore, last month i went in to her offices to get my prescription and go get it filled and she said could not treat me anymore, because her offices that she worked for had told her she couldnt treat me anymore as they are afraid of being sued. now i am doctorless and no way to get a prescriptions for my pain so all month ive been withdrawing on my own which is exrtremely painful for me.

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I too am having the same problem. My teeth are either broken, or decaying from the inside out. All because of pain killers. I can't smile no more. I hate that 4-5 yrs ago I had the most prettiest teeth, not no more. My Dr knew tknew it would kill ur teeth. If I had known I would have found something different for the pain. We need to get a class action law suite against these drug companies and the gross affects on peoples teeth. Just saying. Thanks Tom.

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i completely agree and now that they have changed it from the OC ones to the OP ones its caused my ankles to swell up like balloons all the time, and i never have had swollen ankles not even during being pregnant with my 3 sons , i never had swollen ankles, but ever since they changed it from the OC to the OP i have felt sick, so sick to my stomach i cant eat, i barely drink anything liquid anymore as it makes me nausea, and i have stomach cramps so bad i end up on the floor feeling like someone is cutting my side with a knife all the time, the waves of stomach pain on so often now that i have cut down on the amount that i take of them, as i am terrfied they are killing me, then i read something on google that these new OPs actually have plastic in them oh my gosh are they trying to purposely trying to poison us by putting plastic in them, plus they dont control my pain at all on these new OP's at all, and actually make me horribly ill, i have chronic fatigue now and feel like what they did by changing the formula is just killing us chronic pain patients all because some out there abuse them that now we have to suffer for that, i think that yes we should all start a class action suit against the makers of the original OC for them not informing the doctors, pharmasist or us the patients that it would cause dry mouth so badly that it would dry rot our teeth, as they could have informed doctors to make sure they put us on a saliva increaser med if we where put on these meds and that would have saved us from them dry rotting our teeth, course now they tell people that, but back when they first put me on them my doctor said that she even called the makers of them and that they informed her that there was no side effect of them causing any dental problems, course now its everywhere online that they do, but a little to late for all of us who have been taking them a long time, so i do think the makers of them for their lack of caring or concern and them trying to cover the fact that they would cause dental rot from the dry mouth, i think they should be responsible for those of us who where not informed back years ago should be elgible for full dental implants and reimbursement for our devastation of loosing our teeth, it not only has affected my health as i cant eat foods anymore and i have been on liquid diet for so long i have forgotten what food even taste like now, but its also affected my looks i cant wear dentures as my gums are to small and the dentures actually caused severe problems with my jaw bone now, so i had to stop wearing them and they never fit right anyways as my gums are so small , i had beautiful teeth before i was put on them, and with the recomendations of my doctor she said they where the safest pain med out and that they had very little side effects at all , when i told her many times about my dry mouth she just kept saying drink more water, i kept telling her it had to be related to the meds, she said she even called the makers of the meds and they denied clearly any connection at all between the OC's and my dental problems, had they just admitted it to her she could have put me on a saliva increaser med back then years ago and my teeth would have never dry rottted and i would still have beautiful teeth, but due to the company that made them denying it and trying to cover it up that there was any connection between dental problems i think yes we should all start a class action suit against them and we should also sue them for the new OP's which are making us all sick, as we cant get the OC brands anymore all you can get are the OP's now which are making everyone very ill that has to take them, the OP's are the worst thing they ever did , they try to say the formula is the same its not even close to the same, and now on google if you look it up they contain plastic in them to prevent the drug addicts from being able to crush them or shoot them up as they wont dissolve , well think about it if it doesnt dissolve for them then why in the world would they think they would dissove properly in our stomachs for us pain patients, they dont, ihave taken them and actually seen the new ones just come right back out still whole no wonder they dont control the pain. they dont dissolve why would they if they contain plastics. putting something that dangorous in them will cause them to just sit in our systems and poison us eventually. i think they where just asking for a class action suit you know.

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I am 56 years old and was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer, in early 2005. I had two surgeries and lost 1/3 of my lower right arm to the tumor that had grown there. I had a skin graft and radiation. There is no chemo that works for my cancer - it is always fatal.
The drs. put me on Oxycontin in 2005 after my surgeries, etc. I had never taken pain meds in my life. I worked for 34 years and had a great job and a great life.
I spent every dime I saved in my 40lK (almost $500,000) on my cancer treatment. I have lost EVERYTHING I owned - don't even have a car, cell phone, cable TV, etc.
Now on top of all that, I am losing my beautiful teeth, also. I had to have 2 root canals in the last 5 months and I developed white spots on my two front teeth and two lower ones in the front. After two months, the white spots broke off and my teeth are crumbling. I used to date my endodontist (a great guy who did my root canals for nothing) and he told me it is DEFINITELY from the opioid meds. He said there is nothing I can do now - it's too late.
I, too, was very attractrive and had gorgeous teeth. Now I don't leave my house either because I am too ashamed. I don't have the $3000 I need to fix those teeth and others are starting to crumble. The perfect credit rating that I had for 40 years is gone like my teeth - CARE credit wouldn't even loan me the money and I worked for GE (who owns it) for 14 years!
Just wanted to tell you that I truly empathize with you. It is horrible to lose one's teeth. I truly, truly would rather be dead than have dentures.

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yep so its happening to you i think all of us who have suffered this damage should get a huge lawsuit going against the drug maker who made it, as i have found out online the drug maker of oxycotin they knew full well it would cause tooth loss yet they would deny it was damaging to teeth or that it would cause dry rot which is what it is, if they had just put warning labels on the meds then us patients could have had our doctors take precautions to make sure we where precribed a saliva increaser medication so that we would not get dry rot, so i think the drug company manufactor should be held responsible for restitution for us, by everyone who has suffered they should have to pay for the implants for us. so if theres any attorneys out there that put together a multi lawsuit against the maker of oxycontin contact me. and the rest of us on here who have suffered the same damage to our teeth. as i am sure everyone on here would want to get in a huge lawsuit against the makers of oxycontin for them not warning us patients that would cause dry rot of our teeth. we have lost our teeth, our pride, our looks, and our self esteem as not only can we no longer smile and be ourselves when we smile as we cant eat, i am on a liquid diet as i cant chew ever again. so i think the makers of this medication should be held fully responsible for not warning pateints and telling the doctors who prescibe that they need to make sure to prescribe to any patient taking it to put them on a saliva increaser med at the same time to protect that patient and others from developing dry mouth and dry rot of their teeth.

so if theres any lawyer or attorney firm that is gutsy enough to help us to get what we should have and that is to get our teeth back and to make the drug makers of oxycontin.

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You need to get to a methadone clinic and fast. At first it is like switching one drug for another one. After you have been on methadone for a while you can request the clinic to begin to taper the dose down until you can get off. I don't think you want to get off. You feel sorry for yourself just like addicts do. Every one goes through pain. Some of us severe pain. And quit crying in front of your kids. Do you know how helpless and terrible that makes children feel? You are turning them into unhealthy emtionally sick people yourself!! Either get on suboxone and start going to NA or get on Methadone and start going to NA and quit being a victim. Nobody rotted your teeth out but you.

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I was referred to a doctor for pain management. He did not inform me that m.s. contin would cause my teeth to rot above the gum line and fall out, which they did. I'am only 34 and before this happened, my teeth were beautiful. I'am seeking an attorney to help me file a lawsuit against this doctor, and the drug manufacturer that does not list drymouth as a side effect...what a cover up!Can anyone help me?

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Oxycontin 80mg rotted my perfect teeth within two years of 2-3tablets a day use for back pain. They crumbled and fell to pieces. I have now stopped taking this hideous drug and have saved most of my molars.The decay stopped when I stopped taking the oxycontin leaving me with thousands of dollars of dental work to be done. I would never have taken oxycontin if I had known.My wife lost all her teeth at the same time from oxycontin as well.I am 38years old my wife is 42.anyone interested in a group action

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i just want to let you know that just because you think some ppl are only using the drugs to get high and that they have brought this all n themselves you are dead fuc*ing wrong...sry for the language. I am a 30 yr old woman living in pain everyday of my life and at one time I did have a dr that put me on xanax ativan valium 80 oxy's not just 2 a day but 4-8 as i needed along with actiq lollipops and dilaudid 8mgs 1-2 every 4hrs I have been on these types of meds since the age of 5 1/2 to 6 yrs old due to horrible medical condidions that have sadly nearly killed me well let's just say i can't count that high on my two hands alone. .I am sooo not a fan of ppl who go and lie and get meds that they don't truly need other then to get high but there are some of us who have taken the most amazing care of themselves from day one and yeah after a stroke 1 month and 5 days after i had a miracle baby i was never supposed to have i suffered a massive stroke where i smashed the whole face onto a granite counter and went face first thru a mirrored door and that was when the real massive tooth decay and pain and rot really started i too thought it was total bulls*** that these meds could cause something like this but it it the truth no matter how you look at it. i had never in 24yrs not had my picture taken for the book at the dentists office for those who have been totally 100% cavity and any other dental problem free just think how embarassing it was to have to go in there and for him to tell me that i was going to have to have everything removed while put under due to my allergy to anything in the caine family meaning i feel everything no matter what even under twillight. that's just so freaking cruel of you to get on here to degrade, put down and make those of us with serious medical problems that WILL EVENTUALLY KILL us feel just so damn warm and fuzzy inside. you are a total jerk off and i think that many of the ppl on here will agree with me though i'm not not speaking on behalf of anyone other than myself and my best friend who's goooing through the same thing as so9 many ppl on here. You seriously should be ashamed of yourself and think twice before putting ppl down the way that you have. anyone with any thoughts advice etc can reach us on FB Alicia Kelly in Maryland B-more area

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Ally, Sweetie, you are so right! Don't allow the haters on this site make you feel bad because you have to take prescription meds just to try to live a moderately pain-free life. It seems that there are always those who demean others to bolster their own non-existent self-esteem.
I'm in the same boat. I'm almost 57 (my original post is on here) and am losing my beautiful teeth. I have Stage IV leiomyosarcoma, a very rare cancer. I worked for 35 years at a high-paying, high-profile job. When I was diagnosed and after two surgeries that cost me every cent of my $600,000 401K, I was prescribed 80mg OxyContin 3 times per day. No one ever said ANYTHING about losing one's teeth!
They are STILL telling me it's from the massive radiation I had, which is BS. Purdue Pharmaceuticals never put in the contraindications that one would lose his teeth after a period of 2-3 years.
I SERIOUSLY have begged God to just let me die before I lose all my teeth. I have multiple metastases, but the docs at M.D. Anderson cannot (or will not) give me an estimate of how long I have left. There are people who have lived with Stage IV for TEN years. I pray that I am not among them.
I will not go out in public because of my teeth. It is heartbreaking to look in a mirror. The fact that half of my right forearm is missing from the tumor surgery does not bother me AT ALL. I don't mind people staring at the scar and I always tell them what happened. What I cannot stand is when they stare at me and think, "She's a crack addict". Some people have asked me how long I smoked METH. I have never taken an illegal drug in my LIFE. The fact that I still dress well, always fix my hair, and apply makeup, puzzles people and I know what they are thinking. "Why is she bothering with clothes and fancy jewelry when her teeth are falling out?"
A very nice wealthy man who lives in my town has made me an appointment at his dentist for this Thursday, April 26th, to see if he can repair what's left. The gentleman is PAYING FOR IT for me because he knew me before I lost my teeth and he knows that I can no longer afford it. I am THANKING GOD for his kindness and generosity. I don't know if the dentist can salvage the rest, but I know that he does implants and bridges and ANYTHING is better than DENTURES. I already have porcelain crowns on my molars that I paid for myself before I realized what was happening.
I have talked to the best trial lawyer in Texas about what has happened to all of us who took OxyContin and/or Percocet (oxycodone and acetaminophen). He has been approached before about the subject, because he became a BILLIONAIRE on class-action suits for asbestosis. NO ONE is willing to take on Purdue Pharmaceuticals because the drug company did list "dry mouth" as a contraindication. He says that because that was listed, we have no legal remedy for the loss of our teeth. I have a college degree and I damned sure didn't know that "dry mouth" would result in losing the enamel off of my teeth, and then the crumbling thereafter. It makes me SICK to think that there are so many people like us, who DID NOT and DO NOT take street drugs. We were innocent pawns in a high-dollar business. My insurance paid for my Oxy's and it was $1100/month. Do you honestly think that Purdue would tell us that we were going to lose our teeth when they were dragging in MILLIONS every month in profit? They STILL don't tell you that long-term use of the drug will result in tooth loss!!!
All my life I had a PHOBIA about taking care of my smile! And we all have had the terrible dreams of losing out teeth, haven't we? I knew that as I aged, I would not retain my beauty queen looks and I didn't mind at all. I don't care about gaining 25 lbs., and I LOVE my naturally blonde hair that has turned platinum. (I save so much money on highlights - lol). The wrinkles don't phase me, either. BUT DON'T LET ME LOSE MY TEETH. I saved all my life so that I could take of myself in my golden years - it was all gone in 6 months and two surgeries, skin grafts, radiation, etc. I hate being POOR because if I had known I was going to die from this cancer anyway, I wouldn't have had the second surgery that literally bankrupted me. I would have cashed in my 401K and lived out the rest of my days on the French Riviera.
I knew that I had taken great care of my teeth with orthodontia work when I was 12, visits to the dentist every 6 months, etc. I knew that if worse came to worse, I could get implants with my savings. Well, now I can't!!
I used to date my endodontist and he has done all my root canals for nothing - God bless him also, for his generosity! Even HE didn't know about OxyContin. I have since told him and he said now he is seeing it on a weekly basis.
I hope that after I am gone that ALL of you who have suffered in silent humiliation for this awful malady, do EVENTUALLY find an attorney who will file a class-action suit on your behalf. And I pray that everyone will be as fortunate as I to have two wonderful friends who are helping me.
I will post my results at the dentist on Thursday night. I am cautiously optimistic and I'm scared to death to hear what I will most likely learn - that I will need dentures.
I am adding you to my prayers, sweet Ally! May God send you a miracle to repair your teeth, also.

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I am very interested in a group class action or whatever it takes. Count me in! I too did not know that I was trading one for the other!! I'm really not in it for the money per sayI I just want my teeth back! John from Md / Annapolis lBaltimore area

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John with an unhappy smile - count me in for a class action lawsuit. I too am losing my teeth and it has to be due to the Oxycontin I am on. I take good care of my teeth, yet I am losing them as they keep breaking off near the gum line. It is like they are rotting from the inside out. This is devastating. I don't want money either, unless it's enough to pay for implants so I can chew again and smile again. Maybe you could set up a page on Facebook for people who have lost their teeth due to prescribed medications and see how many people like the page. If a lot of people join, then perhaps you could get info on starting a class action lawsuit against the specific drug manufacturers involved and people from the FB page could all sign up as defendants. We all deserve to receive dental implants to make up for our loss. I, too, would not have gone on the drug if I had known it would cause my teeth to rot and fall out.

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I promised I would print an update of my dental visit on 4/26/12 and here it is.
The dentist who is rebuilding my mouth has been in practice for 53 years and specializes in saving and revamping one's teeth. He thought that I had not been to a dentist in at least FIVE years. I had a root canal six months ago and go to the dentist every six months!
I had EIGHT abscesses in my mouth. He pulled my four lower incisors at the front of my mouth and is making a permanent bridge to attach to my molars that have porcelain crowns on them. He drilled all the decay from the INSIDE of my four upper front teeth, filled them from the back and bonded all the fronts to make new teeth. My front incisor had cracked and broken off and only a tiny portion was left. The dentist drilled that tooth and bonded it. It looks just like it did before the OxyContin. Next week he is starting to fill the rest of my teeth (EVERY SINGLE ONE LEFT!) in my mouth and bonding them also.
The cost of this?? SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. - Yep - $16,000.00. I know that I am so blessed to have a patron who is paying for this work to be done. I realize how fortunate I am that I found a dentist who was dedicated to keeping my teeth. I know that he thinks I am or was a drug addict, but he is doing a fabulous job. The pain has been awful. So far, I have had four visits, with at least four more to complete the work.
I pray that SOMEONE can get an attorney to file a class-action suit against Purdue Pharmaceuticals for the lack of warning on OxyContin,
If anyone who is reading these posts is just starting to have dental woes, STOP TAKING OXYCONTIN NOW and get to a dentist! Perhaps some of your molars can be salvaged as mine are.
I remember each of you in my prayers and I only wish that all of you could afford to fix your teeth. It has been the most humiliating event in my 57 years.

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