Tis not very exciting for folks to hear I fear, but last October, I received the news, after waiting for 4 years or so, that they can finally implant my implant. Had they not done so at that point, I would have given up. I'd had enough of the interminable waiting.
Yes, I had originally had the tooth removed, in hospital, because of a massive infection that had been going on years and had not been detected. Once the tooth was out, the site where the infection had been had lost a lot of bone and they wanted a) to make sure the infection had really gone and b) for the bone to grow back. So I'd keep going, have it scanned but it wasn't ready, so I had to wait.
"I can't do anything TO you today so you might as well go home" For some reason our family dentist did not like me and would torture me as much as he could. I had developed an abscess in my mouth that he looked at and made an appointment for the next day. Next morning the abscess had totally disappeared, mom said to keep the appointment anyway.. so Mr Dentist examined my mouth three times unable to believe how the abscess could just disappear. He seemed angry as if I was playing some kind of joke or something. Well, that was a mysterious spontaneous healing anyway that happened.