I met my current fiancé whilst I was in a UK (Scottish) dental
hospital treating patients.
Although we initially met in DEC (emergency clinic) I saw her again in
a club & we started dating

Recent news told of a skeleton found in Ethiopia that is 3.3 million
years old. It is supposed to have been only 3 years old at death, and
female.  The stories say that the sex and age at death were determined
from the teeth, which were all still in the skull.

I believe Dr. Kulacz posted a few times on this newsgroup.
http://www.dentalwatch.org/reg/kulacz.html

Hi people,
My wife just told me last night that in fact one of her molars is dead,
and now has started to chip away. I never knew about it. Her dentist
knew about it, but I don't know why nobody thought of a root canal...

I have a tooth abcess at the root (shown on x-ray in June) and on a
panorex in September. I just found out about it and am completing a
round of anti-biotics to clear up the infection. I have no pain in the
tooth hence my surprise about the abcess. This also explained the

Dentists are not in any position to declare that amalgam fillings are
"safe" because it appears that many of the scientific investigations
which would be necessary in order to do so have never been carried out.
For example, it has been demonstrated experimentally that amalgam

no point in posting some bogous scientific article, there are tons of
them on the net, just do a search
Water is found to be toxic and a bill is being introduced to ban water use!
support this bill,!!!

I had my second root canal treament and it took 3 vists to complete
this treatment. Because the canals were  bleeding alot his careless.
Now he wants to do fillings for my teeth I have cavites that need
filling I do not feel any pain when eating.

Hey I was just wondering if someone could explain something to me. Yesterday
I was brushing my teeth with my electric toothbrush when i rinsed with water
my front crown fell off. What is disturbing me is that i think my original my
tooth fell off with the crown. the area on my gum ...

Is there any reason not to just keep using the temporary crown?

I would like to know if its possible to sustitute a natural huge
teeth(huge roots) for a more moderate size teeth trougth implant tooths
smaler that the original ones, or at least the frontal ones.
If anybody know any similar case or sugest an alternative solution

I have a particularly strong gag reflex, and it is getting worse.  It is now
starting to affect my daily life, for example I can no longer scuba dive.
It is very difficult even for my dentist to examine me without me gagging.
The odd thing is that I wear a small denture with no ...

I need to have a single molar replaced. I am leaning towards
mini-implants, though I have to go out of my way to get to a dentist
that does them. There is a chance they'll be cheaper (I have no
insurance), but more importantly, I have heard using as many as 3 of

Lonnie H. Norris DMD MPH K'80 Dean
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Massachusetts
Dear Dr. Norris,

After having a lower right wisdom tooth out I developed a dry socket.
After about 6 days of pain (ranging from light to throbbing) I went to
my dentist who - having diagnosed DS over the phone - then confirmed
such "very dry" - and packed it in 5 mins with something beginning with