Antone here still dealing with dental work? Hubbys last appt. wasn't pleasant to say the least. Dentist gave him a major panic attack! She said ,"I'm going to have to drill real deep for this one "! I have to have a top plate so need to keep going back for extractions. I will have 3 pulled in 11 days. I had 3 pulled last visit. Never had an infection or gum disease just years and a couple of bad dentist over the years. I refuse to be put to sleep so its all local. All that cracking and crunching is not pleasant but he is an oral surgeon so he gets it done without all the yanking. So these dogs better be at their best behavior.
If you have time to do the seeking and research, even when three professionals say there is a rc necessary, there are others who can provide a simple and proven alternative to avoid the often painful and dangerous procedures. There have been simple ways inIstead of the surgeries for centuries, with better results than so-called professionals usually get. It may only take half hour, up to three hours, research to at least find some of the save, reliable, painless methods.
Both of us need some dental work done, but, lucky for me, I had a bad tooth get really loose and came out. We no longer have dental insurance, only dental discount cards. Dental discount cards definitely aren't dental insurance. My wife will have a deep cleaning done on her teeth, but if a dentist was to look in my mouth, he'd see a brand new Corvette. Mine aren't "that" bad, but. Nope, not unless absolutely necessary. My step-dad had all of his teeth pulled when I was in high school. Unfortunately, I got to see the container, with his upper and lower plates in being cleaned, each night when I took a bath.
Wife had a cap replaced, and the local apparently gave her "dry mouth". She has been struggling with that ever since the procedure. I haven't had anything other than routine maintenance for years.
While I am missing some teeth, mostly in the back, I’m doing OK. I did have one break off on the left side leaving a gap half way back, but there is no pain so I’m letting it slide. Before the pandemic, I went every 6 months for a cleaning but they quit calling me after covid. I should call them to get back on that schedule and maybe get a bridge for the one tooth I mentioned.
I still have my teeth, thank goodness. A couple are crowned, but the roots are all mine. My grandma still had every tooth in her head when she died in her late 80s and there were white and straight, not a single cavity. She had never been to a dentist until her 70s. I lost out in the gene lottery, I'm afraid. As the old saying goes: "Be true to your teeth and they'll never be false to you."
That's not where you lost, no. If you had the same wholesome foods , clean water with no poisons in it, and no professionals poking at your teeth and life/health - the same freedom your grandma had, as more people had back before the sad so-called 'professionals' got to put their system in place, you would or could have had every tooth with no cavity also. African people's were often noted for that also , until white man with his toxins showed up.