I met a business associate yesterday who is an older woman of Irish
decent.  In conversations, she said something to me that I had never
heard before.  She told me that she and members of her family have
some gene trait that allows their teeth to regrow continuosly.  Now

[Please excuse and ignore if this shows up twice. I sent it a day ago and it
has not shown up.]
Six months ago I had gum surgery to reduce pockets around my teeth due to
gum disease. That, of course, exposed more of the teeth. A month or so I

I've recently been more diligent concerning my oral care, and
have tried using several of the tongue scrapers, which are quite
uncomforable for me to use.  I would much rather gargle with something
(perhaps the same baking soda solution I use in my waterpik?).

My wife had a seizure shortly after getting numbed up with pivocane [sp?].
The dentist said she looked comatose for a few minutes and shook a little,
eyes rolled back, etc. She was not totally with it when they were talking to
her, and they offered her an ambulance but she asked ...

Got my bags packed and ready to go .... San Diego to Portland, Oregon
and the coast ....
And upon our arrival ... it is:  "Hello, precipitation!!!" (any amount
is more than I've seen since the Mancuso family visited us last

As a consumer of dental services,with all the so-called advances in
medicine I find it amazing they have not found a way to "flush"
desensitizing agents from human tissues after use with an antidote or
counter-agent........you still have to wait for 6 damnable hours for

Howdy all.
In Sept. 2004 issue of Dentistry Today, there is an article talking
about splints and their indications. There is NO mention of the NTI....
not even as an explanation. WIGO???? Do they PAY clinicians to write

what about this new stuff .is this really working ?
regards K.P DDS

hi--I'm a college freshman considering my career options and would
really appreciate hearing from practicing dentists as to whether they
would recommend going into private practice dentistry today.  so much
has changed in the health professions and I'm wondering if dentistry

I need to make a fixed fixed bridge on UL 1 and UL 3 to replace UL2.
The bridge will be porclain fused to metal.
My instructor has told me not to do a RBB :(
He told me that this will require thought?

I recently had a MODB composite placed on #19. Apperantly, the decay
was fairly deep, and it got fairly close to the pulp. The tooth has
been sore for about a week now.
How can one determine if this is temporary, and will go away, or if it

Hi guys, I'm wondering if anybody can help me with this problem I've
been having.  For the past two weeks or so, I've had this blister on
the roof of my mouth.  The strange thing about it is that it goes away
quickly, but always comes back after I eat something that is kind of

In the PracticonDental catalog, there is a simple, portable electrosurgery
insturment that costs about $72.  In the description it says that the
instrument works on 2 AA batteries and reaches temperatures of 2200F.
Seems a little scary.  Any experience or literature you can tell me ...

I had a deep clean done last August, after 4 months, I had yellow,
itchy scalp, I went to my primary care doctor, she said it was fugus
infection, and gave me some shampoo and crame. after I applied them
on, several days later, the problem disapper, but at the office, my