Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
don't say never. the Army experimental teeth grinders decided I had a mouth full of cavities that my dentist of just 6 months before had told me there were none. which he hadn't taken care of. Anyway the enamel drill team drilled and amalgamed at least 1 and sometimes as many as 3 holes in nearly every tooth in my mouth. A few years later I started having problems fillings would fall out get replaced cavities would develop under the fillings toothaches and abscesses brought on numerous root canals a couple crowned molars with gold, and some eventual extractions. Someday if I get desperate enough, I'm going to let a dental surgeon gas me and remove all remaining pieces then get some new chompers implanted
School dentists, paid by the filling/extraction, were like that in the 1960's UK, some of my teeth were so damaged my family dental surgeon had to extract them. Removal however isn't always without it's issues, one wisdom tooth I had a problem with was shattered as it was partially extracted 5 years ago, some remains to this day, but as I have 'hook' roots my dentist won't attempt further removal having killed the nerves in the tooth it's a case of allowing nature to take it's course. My father had some pretty awful dental experiences during WW2 with the army dentists, he had a total clearance done 40 years later and dentures for the last 10 years of his life, I hope I don't need the same some day.