Can any dentist\dental lab technician answer a question for me?
I had a porcelain veneer which broke, with part of the veneer still
attached on the back of the tooth (upper front tooth). The dentist
took another clay? impression so another veneer could be made.

    Anyone have a good technique for removing old fossilized rubber door
gaskets?  The American Dental Accessories removal tool seems worthless
to me; I've destroyed a lab knife and cut up my fingers.  Is there some
magic gasket sauce?  Help!!

is recreational methamphetamine use detectable by dental exams?  And what
are the oral hygienic issues that accompany meth use?

Our ins. has "assigned" us to an unfamiliar dental office in a
not-so-great part of town.  The dentist my hubby saw is not the owner,
but apparently the sole dentist of the distant dentist-owner.  My husb.
needs substantial work done:  A multi-tooth bridge replacement that is

Hello Everyone. I am a newby here and need some advice. I know
absolutely nothing about dentistry. What little I do know comes from
various Google searches.
I had 17 teeth extracted last Tuesday for new dentures. When the

I don't have health insurance and although I am poor, I am not below the
poverty line, so getting assistance is difficult. I have 2 cavities right
now, one of which causes a lot of pain radiating all the way up to my ear
at times. I know I need to see a dentist, but about the ...

I just returned from talking to my dentist about the NTI. She was
pretty much opposed to it. Her objections were mainly:
1. Supraeruption. She felt that the teeth that do not touch would
eventually start to erupt. I told her about the web site and even

A couple of weeks ago I went for my cleaning/exam and my new
dentist recommended that I get a night guard.  The tips of my lower
front teeth are a bit worn and some dentin is exposed and she thinks
it is because I'm doing some grinding at night.  Other than that, I

Grettings again, all.
Our yearly dental congress is coming up next week, and I'm going to try
to get a bargain on a curing light. (My locum dentist is going at the
end of the month, and the Optilux 501 is going with her). I wouldn't

I had no idea that dinosaurs were around five thousand years ago.
What is scary is that in a recent poll, 42% of Americans believe
the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
That's something else I never learned.

... up against removing amalgam.
Handpiece wins hands-down.  Much less expensive, too.

Running OSX on a regular pc...
Here are easy directions on using Apple OSX, on a regular PC...
There is a vmware image file out there on a bit torrent site, that will
work on any PC that has a cpu that can support SSE3.

I bought a couple dentist drills from the garage sale.
The first one was a Foredom #7.  It's pretty cool because of all the
pulleys, belts  and arms.  All it needed was a belt which Foredom
still has available.

This morning, the gold crown on tooth 19 fell off into my toast.
The dentist said that it cannot be saved. I had a root canal maybe
10-15 years ago. The remaining tooth material is at or below the gum
line. My mouth is otherwise in pretty good health for my age (61) and

In the long on-going saga (see previous thread: Yet another crown
question) I've just lost another one. Actually it's still there, just
wedged in between adjacent teeth and pointing towards and rubbing
against my cheek. I suppose I could use a pair of Craftsman needle