Five Geez a Pop? Wow

[Byron Black]

I thought I was getting stung here by paying US$1500. apiece for implants.

Five thousand dollars? Ouch.

Note that an earlier dentist, famed and expensive, a professor of dentistry
at a local university as well, fucked up royally on two of four implants:
one, a molar, was set at a bit of an angle and eventually sheared off,
leaving the stub still threaded in the socket, thank you.

The other one just drifted loose one day, for no apparent reason. I'm really
not amused, particularly when the Indonesian attitude is "Oh, you must have
done something wrong. Were you trying to open a soft drink bottle maybe?"
They never admit fault, never. Lucky for them that Islam decrees that
corpses must be buried within 24 hours, making autopsies next to impossible.
(A lot of medical mistakes get stuffed underground, I assure you.)

The stem cell implant stuff is apparently fairly established
theory-to-practice, and I've not read of any side effects or negative
symptoms. It's always possible you might get monster mutant teeth.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frances Morey" <frances_morey@excite.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Teeth, at the top end of the GIT


>
> Dr. Black,
> Please keep us informed about this new stem cell research to regrow teeth.
That sounds like it could be a revolutionary breakthrough. I would love to
be a guinny pig for the experimenters on this one. I have five spaces that
could use an estimated $25,000 worth of implants. Those x-rays look like you
have had a few of them. Where and when did you get them and how much did
they set you back? Retiring minds want to know.
> Frances
>
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