Hi all! You're posting so much that I'm left way behind! *sob!*
GrannyG, my dentist has been saving my teeth for years via root canals, then pins or a post, and builds a 'tooth' on top of that. Because of my ill-health my teeth got all brittle and just break to pieces. He's even redone a tooth where there was nothing left above the gum. I call him my scupter extraordinaire (as well as dentist)! I now only eat things that don't require hard chewing, or another couple of teeth are likely to go!
All of this fussing is necessary as I'm too ill to have teeth pulled - would so affect my nervous system and psyche that it could actually cause my death. I've already had a collapse in the chair once that took me to hospital on oxygen! So because he cares so much I still have a mouth full of teeth - tho by now, strictly speaking, few of them are actually 'my own'!
Feelin' a bit sorry for you, Fluffy!!
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