I have been a reparative dentist for 35 years and I've heard it all. One comment I hear is that the patient has had only one filling.
Really !?. How fortunate !?. It is going to be a nasty surprise down-the-road when you find out that the life span of a filling is about 12 to 15 years.....that's if it is not part of the 50% of dental restorations that get "recurrent decay" and has to be replaced earlier than expected..
So, it is like a mortgage on your tooth with probably a 65 year contract. Depending on your age when you get that filling, the average 20 year old could have to replace that filling possibly 4 to 8 times in his lifetime!
C.G. Sorensen D.D.S., "CureDontist"....... ("Be Cavity-free for Life".....a really good idea!)
Considering that costs of everything seems to double every 10-12 years, the last placement of that filling as an advanced senior citizen with no insurance and little money and possibly no transportation and not feeling very good........ could be looking at a $480 dollar filling that began at $20, and that's "only one" filling.
Along with the announcement that Dental "Caries is both curable and preventable....", comes the deeper understanding of the nature of the "Cariogenic Biofilm". The transition from a "healthy biofilm" to a "cariogenic biofilm"(one that contributes to dental decay) can happen rapidly and without warning to the "host" (you !). Certain "caries risk factors" can cause this to happen fairly easily and rapidly even to patients who "haven't had cavities", BUT it can take a lengthy and challenging "treatment" to get it back to being healthy again.
Most patients and an unnecessary number of their dentists haven't updated themselves from the simplistic description of the "traditional dentistry" and naively believe that somehow it will just take care of itself and cure itself on it's own with no effort from the patient.
IT'S NO WONDER WELL OVER 90% OF HUMANITY SUFFERS DENTAL DECAY FROM "DENTAL CARIES' DISEASE!!!!!.....AND CONTINUING TO BE WILLING TO PAY FOR DAMAGE TO THEIR TEETH FROM A CURABLE DISEASE!...INTO THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY AND INCREASING RAPIDLY...
So.....besides the replacements of this "one filling", if the Dental Caries disease that caused it is NOT overtly cured, there could be many more "only one filling" experiences in addition for the future.
Clear back in 2003, the US Surgeon General saw the situation clearly, thinking that the entire nation needed a "call to action" and a "wake-up call". (see the 2003 US Surgeon General's report "National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health", on the internet, free)
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