Thanks for sharing your personal experience.
Have spoken to a lot of people about this in the last week and many of them also mentioned how their parents or grandparents used to do this. So yep, the old folk know best!
Just the idea of drilling little bits of metal into my jaw bone gives me the chills. And I am very pleased to have done this research before ending up with implants.
Repair, fix, patch your own teeth for as long as you able. My advice, implants are money making ripoff, had six done strongly advised by Dentist, three removed within as many years at more pain than original implant being done.