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Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Edd111@aol.com writes:
>
> > Greece, Scandinavia for 3 more months (the dental care, even in
Deutschland
> > was medieval- people love gold crowns on their front teeth, not to
mention
>
> Err, you have missed the whole amalgam debacle, have you? UV cured
> polymer doesn't age well, cements are also inferior.
>
> So far Au is still gold standard in dental materials. Maybe
> aesthetically less than perfect, but toxicologically uncontroversial
> and damn durable.
At age 14 I got my two front upper teeth knocked completely out, and half
of each
of the front lower teeth. The upper teeth got posted and set with gold
body/ceramic faced crowns, and have been fine ever since (18 years). The two
lowers got cement castings bonded to the remaining teeth surfaces. One of these
popped out eleven years ago in an Air Force dentists office, which was replaced
with no problems since (it was the smaller one), while the other one is
original
and has not worn away.
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