Tonight my crown fell off my dental implant.  The screw is still in my
gum line and the crown looks ok.  This one of my front teetn. Is this
common?  Should I be worried about having to have my implant redone?
I'm off to the dentist tomorrow but was wondering what to expect.

We are in the process of selecting a dental software for our office
(with 4 opertories) and we have come down to two companies: Eaglesoft
and Softdent.
Please let us know if you have any experience with either of these two.

I have been visiting this NG from time to time, over several years. This is
the first time that I did not see and appreciate Joel's ubiquitous posts?
What happened to him?

My wife (age 47) is about to have tooth #18 extracted due to abcess and
fracture. She lost #19 about 9 months ago. Dentist has recommended 2
implants at a total cost of $7500. This includes the 2 crowns. Now, we
are not wealthy. Like most people we have a few bucks in savings and

I have this pt. that admits he cannot stop clenching against his upper
denture. He came to me for a soft reline of his existing denture which I
did. He has since decided he needs a new denture and it have to be with a
soft lining from the beginning. I've used Cu-sil on partials but ...

I was having toothaches for a month, and I went to this older guy dentist in
town. he looked and tapped and poked, and said that I probably needed either
a root canal or an extraction, although he saw swelling on my face, he could
see nothing wrong with the surface of the tooth.  I ...

More on why later!!!!!!!
SP

My wife had recently a root canal done. It required a crown to be
drilled and it was mentioned filling the crown was possible, unless it
was damaged. The root canal was done by the specialist. Our dentist
wants to put a new crown on; without having seen the result of the root

I was wondering if anyone here had any news on these developments or
are all of these still in the "prototype" status?
-isaac

I see some deficite in knowledge about Homepathy:
Some abstracts to that:
Is evidence for homoeopathy reproducible?
Reilly D, Taylor MA, Beattie NG, Campbell JH, McSharry C, Aitchison TC,

The shares should easily be worth $100+ within a year.
Avanir Reports Anti-Anthrax Findings
Data presented at the 105th General Meeting of the American Society
for Microbiology (ASM) described activity of AVANIR Pharmaceuticals'

As I've pretty much come to expect from my DMO office, the latest "add on"
they offered during an annual exam was Vizilite oral cancer screening for
$65 (not covered of course). Anyone have any feelings about the usefulness
of this? What I was told is that if a cancer develops to ...

Google it: Results 1 - 10 of about 190 for huntington chorea +mercury
+amalgam. (0.11 seconds)
Mercury is good, but for swiches, lamps, not for humans
All the best,

A couple of years back, my DMO dentist did a composite filling on the
furthest back upper molar (right side). Before I had him do it, there was
some hacking back and forth with the insurance company. His office first
said my insurance plan didn't cover composite fillings and he only ...