Those of you who will read this summary are of ages 25-70 approximating perhaps 70-80% of our country's population, and comprising perhaps 40% of the top tier of our people's intelligence and - remarkably, according to the latest census will constitute 80% of the surviving populace that lives beyond 80 years of age.
After all that, what will you have to enjoy? Telecommunication media, travel, social nicities, fine clothes, jewelry, fine cars, housing, and continued sexual assurances, all for contentment.
What contentment do you receive from imbibing foods? I mean chewing good foods.
Fine foods, baseball games, football games,homemade fine restaurant foods, how about great steaks? You will never do any of this culinary delights with dentures, decaying, decades-old crown and bridge or ancient partial dentures.
As a practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeon for 30 plus years, I have noticed I can assure you that as our societies'attitude and expectations have changed, so has the scope and expectations of oral health care and the available systems of treatment, and the very most successful and long-lived treatment plans have evolved in response to our needs.
The orthopedic surgeons development of hip, knee and hand implants has prompted the proper development of dental implants; an entire new world for Dentistry.
With proper treatment planning, our patients experience a 97% success rate, with the patient's age ranging from 18 to 80+ years of age.
Yes, I said 80+ years of age! The placement of dental implants is a remarkably benign, kind and temperate oral surgical procedure well tolerated by cardiac, pulmonary compromised and medically managed patients.
In fact, we have an upcoming publication with our placement of multiple dental implants in the hemophilia compromised patient.
You will not be disappointed with dental implants.
They are not inexpensive, but then nothing is inexpensive that has been shown to be 97% successful for at least 25 years.