Thread: How Far Dental Technology Has Come

Man that’s a crazy detailed image!

Originally Posted by Slab

Wow, that one image is like a color photo.

Looks like fried green tomato in there to me.

Originally Posted by Slab

Wow, that one image is like a color photo.

I know, Right! I had other pictures but thought these got the message across. He had to wail on that screw the last 5 licks of the hammer. Said my sinus bones wouldn't budge. Woke me up from a drip coma and loosened some of the crystals in my inner ear with those licks.

Originally Posted by Rojo

I know, Right! I had other pictures but thought these got the message across. He had to wail on that screw the last 5 licks of the hammer. Said my sinus bones wouldn't budge. Woke me up from a drip coma and loosened some of the crystals in my inner ear with those licks.

Yeah uhhh, I think I'll pass. Glad I gots all my toofs and only one crown, so hopefully that's how I get buried. I don't need no "wailing on bones loosening no crystals"!!!

Originally Posted by Slab

Yeah uhhh, I think I'll pass. Glad I gots all my toofs and only one crown, so hopefully that's how I get buried. I don't need no "wailing on bones loosening no crystals"!!!

Bud. I fix Boats for Teeth. I didn't take care of my teeth in my youth but drank tons of Milk. Never a broken bone. You Know how I like to eat. 1 Crown? I've broken 3 just eating, my dentist will only put metal or Zirconia crowns in me now. I love to Eat.

As a youth I had an accident riding a bicycle in the desert doing things I nor that bike was meant to do. 20" stingray bikes were not made to jump hills with 15-20' drop offs as fast as you could pedal repeatedly...Well the last drop off on the last round, the front wheel came off mid air. I got rid of the bike before I hit ground. Not only did my feet hit ground, but so did my chin. hit hard enough to break to molars side by side. They broke front to back. x-rays didn't show the break. I kept telling the dentist they were broke, and he didn't believe me. Sent me home. three days latter with an abscessed jaw, they finally believed me they were broke. When they finally got to semi fixing them the dentist numbed me a couple times and went to pulling, and I went to making sure no one in the office could hear for awhile, screaming at the top of my lungs. Ever since, I don't trust dentists, nor did I really take care of my teeth. Now they want $12,000 to pull my teeth I have left, and give me false teeth....

Originally Posted by Jamesdean

As a youth I had an accident riding a bicycle in the desert doing things I nor that bike was meant to do. 20" stingray bikes were not made to jump hills with 15-20' drop offs as fast as you could pedal repeatedly...Well the last drop off on the last round, the front wheel came off mid air. I got rid of the bike before I hit ground. Not only did my feet hit ground, but so did my chin. hit hard enough to break to molars side by side. They broke front to back. x-rays didn't show the break. I kept telling the dentist they were broke, and he didn't believe me. Sent me home. three days latter with an abscessed jaw, they finally believed me they were broke. When they finally got to semi fixing them the dentist numbed me a couple times and went to pulling, and I went to making sure no one in the office could hear for awhile, screaming at the top of my lungs. Ever since, I don't trust dentists, nor did I really take care of my teeth. Now they want $12,000 to pull my teeth I have left, and give me false teeth....

As I have ask people over the years why they hate going to the dentist the story is always the same, one bad experience scares us all away. I was turned on to Rush while being flown in for a emergency root canal from 100+ miles offshore. The PHI helicopter landed in the yard besides the dentist office, talk about taxi service. The pilot ask me if I wanted to sit up front with him so of course I said YES! When I put on the headphones so we could talk on the ride he had Rush playing in the background. When hurting as bad as I was the dentist couldn't do any worse. My current dentist is so good I would fall asleep in his chair except while both of his hands are in my mouth he wants to talk fishing. My kind of dentist.

I got the green light from the Oral Surgeon to continue on to the last phase of replacing the dead tooth I had. All the bone graft has grown together quite well.



Pictured here is the Digital Scanning Wand. The Tech moves it all around inside my mouth and it creates a perfect 3D image with Vectors so a Implant Tooth can be manufactured that will fit perfectly the first time.



Not exactly attractive photos but displays the point I'm making. No "Impressions" are needed anymore. No sitting with the putty in your mouth till it cures, sending the Impression off for the tooth to be designed from but the waiting still exists. My Dentist can make Crowns inhouse now but not the type of Implant Tooth I'm getting. As everyone here knows, I like to Eat. I'm getting a Bulletproof tooth.