Re: Million-year-old human tooth found in Spain

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:22:45 -1000, "Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, El Castor wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:42:16 -0500, Harry Thompson <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

El Castor wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:24:52 -1000, "Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Florida wrote:

Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070629/sc_afp/spainhistoryscience;_ylt=A0WTcUZ63IdGhmcBYxb737YB

Million-year-old human tooth found in Spain

Rita. You missing a tooth?

Not possible. Your outlook is antediluvial, hers is
liberal. It must be your tooth. :-)

Sorry, Harry. I'm pleased to report that I have every
last tooth -- except my wisdom teeth, of course. The
days of toothless seniors are hopefully drawing to a
close. The miracle of fluoride -- and the Sonicare
toothbrush.

Most of us still have a lot of fillings and keep
needing crowns as our teeth grind down and our fillings
weaken and fall out. I have four crowns and will
probably need more in the coming years. I have friends
going to Mexico and Australia to get cheap crowns. It's
the poor seniors that become toothless-- not because of
bad teeth but because of the lack of good health
insurance.

People become toothless because of decay and gum disease --
particularly gum disease. Gum disease can be largely prevented by
flossing, brushing, and antiseptic mouthwash. and decay can be
prevented by all three, as well as fluoridated water.

I have 3 fillings, and a crown. Rightly or wrongly I count the crown
as still being my own tooth. I think I cracked it (ahem) chewing ice.
When my dentist insisted she could find nothing wrong, I switched
dentists. My new dentist (also a woman) grabbed a miniature wooden
mallet and started whacking teeth. When she hit the cracked one, I
nearly flew out of the chair. (-8

I think what we need is socialized dentistry like they have in the UK.

"I pulled out my own teeth
By TREVOR KAVANAGH
Political Editor

TONY Blair yesterday faced a woman who pulled out SEVEN of her teeth
after failing to find an NHS dentist.

Great-grandmother Valerie Halsworth, 64, removed them with her
husband?s pliers.

She pulled out a seventh tooth over the weekend before meeting the PM
in Coventry yesterday.

The cleaner, from Scarborough, North Yorks, has a gum disease that
causes her teeth to loosen.

Mr Blair told her: ?I can?t suddenly just produce more dentists. We
have to train them. I can?t force them from the private sector into
the NHS.?

Valerie said: ?Mr Blair didn?t seem as though he had an answer.

?The ten teeth I have got left are OK. But in another month or two I?m
going to need a dentist.

?It would be nice for somebody to take them out properly for me.?

She added: ?The only way to get rid of the pain from my teeth was to
pull out the infected ones.

?I had a few pints of lager then screwed up my face, put the pliers
against the tooth and yanked. It?s lucky I like milk pudding and
mashed potato.

?My husband can?t stand to watch. But he?s lucky ? he had all his
teeth pulled out 30 years ago and got a set of false teeth for about a
fiver.?

The confrontation came on a live question and answer session with the
PM on Sky TV.

Mrs Halsworth ? who cannot afford private dentistry ? said three
foreign dentists in her home town all proved unsatisfactory.

Last March 3,000 people queued for a new NHS dentist in the town.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005142569,00.html

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