YankeeRebel
Well-Known Member
Why the heck does it matter, and why you all up in our HIPPA data?How many people honestly don't have a regular physical because they're "afraid that they will hear bad news"?
It's the same reason that people don't go to the dentist until a problem is so bad that the tooth has to be removed.
In Vietnam, dentists couldn't take all of the time needed to properly take care of cavities. They pulled the teeth instead.
My avatar shows five teeth that were pulled between 1969 and 1971 on the lower jaw. The VA is looking at replacing them 55 years later with implants. Hurt? Hell yeah it's going to hurt. Surgery to fill the jaw with cadaver bone and waiting for it to bond. Adding live human membrane to connext live tissue and support the implant rod that will be screwed into the jaw bone. I've got two on top that will have to be reset and a front tooth that will require an implant. Will I do it? Hell yes. I can't wait to have teeth that I can chew on.
Before you ask why I didn't have dentures or something else. Look at the angle of the two bottom wisdom teeth. They couldn't design a partial that could be held in place on either side.
Polls have shown that 62% of Americans fear the dentist more than anything else, other than death.