JT’s Journey From Periodontal Disease to Dental Implants
Choosing the right dental solution matters—especially when periodontal disease begins to impact your comfort, health, and ability to eat.
In this video, a patient shares his journey from struggling with advanced periodontal disease to choosing dental implants at Montana Center for Implants and Dentures. After losing teeth one by one and trying to manage pain and eating difficulties, he explored every option—including bridges and traditional dentures—before deciding implants were the right long-term solution.
He explains how the team took time to walk him through his options, what the implant process was like, and why he was surprised by how comfortable the procedure and recovery were. Today, his implants feel solid, natural, and pain-free—and he’s able to enjoy food again with confidence.
If you’re dealing with periodontal disease, missing teeth, or unsure which dental option is right for you, this patient’s story offers helpful insight and reassurance.
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Transcript
They nicknamed me Hollywood in school because it had such beautiful teeth, huge smile, and then periodontal disease set in in my late 20s. Tried to manage it by myself, just wasn’t able to, so I went to a dentist in Red Lodge and was referred to Montana center for implants and dentures. Periodontal Disease is pretty painful. You kind of stop eating a lot of foods, a lot of sugars. It’s hard to bite down on stuff because of the pressure. It just hurts throughout the periodontal disease, I was having teeth pulled one by one, by one by one, and it started to work, you know, to become where you could not eat anything because you didn’t have you had gaps in your face. So eating meat was like chewing on a piece of rubber. So I did. I compared bridges, dentures, every possible solution that you could come up with. So that’s when we decided to come in here and do the full story. I still wear a traditional upper denture, but they did re manufacture that here. Dr Townsend, when he took it from me, he totally revamped it and made it fit. They all just feel normal. You know, there’s still some movement in the uppers, you know, because they are traditional, but the lowers are solid. I mean, they are set. There’s no movement, there’s no pain, even when they did the surgery on me, that there was no pain. That’s what I keep telling people. There was absolutely zero pain. And I was out for four hours. I got six posts put in, walked out the front door, got my wife’s pickup, and went home, laid down. The next day, I was trying to go to work, but they wouldn’t let me if you want to get back to eating 100% I would recommend implants, because it will save you a lot in the long run. You know, dentures, you’re going to have a lot of cost out of pocket from the time that you get them to the time that you maybe finally choose to do implants. And if you’re young, implants are a good choice. That’s their lifelong I would definitely recommend Montana center for implants and dentures to anyone. Definitely weigh your options. Think about things and come here the certification and knowing what their story is, and if you listen, it brings security to you, peace of mind, and that’s what people want you.