Minutus

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I wanted to have a bridge done – however the dentist I saw talked me out of it (I went to Thailand for dental work – very happy with the result)– as I only had one molar at the back to be the ‘post’ crown for the bridge and 2 teeth missing before the next ’post’ crown tooth – his advice was that a bridge is OK (ish!) if only going across one missing tooth – but if it is 2 or more then the pressure placed on the ‘posts’ is immense and usually the ‘posts’ end up failing (he also said the further back they are in the mouth the greater the chewing ‘load’ and more likely to fail) and you are back to square one (and now no longer have a rear ‘post’ to support a plate – also he said that the bridge often ends up hard to keep clean as the gum/jaw recedes away under the bridge and allows food and saliva mixture to get under it – but almost impossible to clean under it even with a water pick – this places you at the mercy of rotting food etc under the bridge. He suggested I just got a plate. He also agreed with me that implants were not an option due to my reactions to other metals in jewellery. Good advoce all round I found.

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I wouldn't be surprised if inserting any foreign matter into (any place
in) the body will turn out to be a maintaining cause. In fact, I feel
this is how it *should* be.

Hennie

Op 21-5-2016 om 0:44 schreef Tanya Marquette tamarque@earthlink.net
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I do plan on having my DNA looked at for compatibility with various proposed chemicals to be used
in the procedure but not sure how accurate this test is or whether the dentist will actually provide
every chemical used in manufacturing the implants and the bridge.

t

Why not get dental implants instead of a bridge?

Angie

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I am very glad you posted your experience.

I think you mention most of the problems and concerns with implants.
People love them until they fail and then it is a huge financial loss as well as
the health problems they create.

I had a bridge for front teeth with a removable denture for the back. The pressure from
chewing rocked the bridge loose and broke off some of the stubs it was glued onto. Then
the acrylic began to crack off exposing metal which has been leaching out and into my body
causing toxicity as well as interfering with nutritional absorption. So to do implants with a
long bridge is very scarey and worrisome.

I do plan on getting a test for the chemicals used in any implant/bridge work planned due
to concerns about toxic effects.

BTW, Why did you chose to go to Thailand for dental work?

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AS I said in the post at the end – Implants were even more worrying due to my metal allergies – if I react when they are placed against my skin then heaven only knows what they would do if planted into my tissues and bone.

REgards Pauline
Pauline Ashford

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I went to Thailand as the quote for the work in Australia was around Aust $25-30 thousand dollars – I got the same done (but with better quality materials – ie top grade porcelain crowns instead of plastics) for Aust $6800.00 so for less than $10K I had a great holiday, excellent dental work (I researched it and the infection control and the dentists for close to 2 years and spoke to many others who had been over there and Bali and Vietnam). IT was great to have it done by someone humble enough to listen, trained well enough (in UK) to be clean sanitary and professional, and treated me well and politely. I have found that here many Dentists and Doctors consider themselves far beyond us mere mortals and only listen to their own counsel rather than the one that is paying them and the one detailing the problems.
REgards Pauline
Pauline Ashford

Maleny Homeopathy

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How fortunate to be able to do that trip and get great work.

What you describe in Australia is just as true for doctors in the US. Not only don't they listen,

and look down on you, they often, very often do crappy work. Even mainstream stats here

acknowledge allopathic medicine is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Many people

like Gary Null or Joseph Mercola feel it is the first cause of death in this this country due to

the fact that many doctors won't report the toxic and killing effects of their patients. The

estimate is only 10% of such deaths are reported which means instead of 100-200,000 deaths

by medicine annually, the numbers are probably 1-2 million/per year.

Pretty scarey stuff!
Your costs were great. I have a written quote of $32,000 for the work in my mouth. I paid $20,000.00

about 9 yrs ago for total upper bridge and denture work in the upper jaw. It lasted a scant 4-5 yrs

before beginning to break down. The money has not been here to redo the work which now is even more

costly if I do implants the way these dentists propose (I saw 4 of them to get comparisons) And the

biological dentists are at least $5-7,000.00 more. FYI, Medicare doesn't cover any dental work at all!

So without some high end costly insurance or if you were in the military, it is all out of pocket. Medicaid

dentists are downright frightening and I would barely tolerate them cleaning my teeth or doing simple

fillings.
BTW--how long a flight is it for you from Australia to Thailand? Are you on the east or west side of the
continent? Just trying to gain perspective.

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Hi, Tanya

Thailand is not the only country where one can find reasonably-priced good dental work. When I was in Mexico some years ago for my husband's cancer treatment, I met an American who'd come to Tijuana for extensive dental surgery. It was so much cheaper than in the States and the quality of care was so much better. (I should add that we experienced the same with my husband's treatment.)

Peace,
Dale
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