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Dentures mean different things to denture wearers and prospective denture wearers. Some are looking for options to remedy a failing dental condition; some are looking for solutions to improve their current dentures, while others are looking for ways to stabilize their dentures. As experts in our field we feel that we have something to benefit everyone. Please check the menu to address your specific needs.
Has Denture Care been Progressive or Regressive?
Since early 700 BC, dentures have been created with ivory and animal bone, usually from elephants or hippopotamus. Wealthy persons had dentures made of silver, gold, mother of pearl or agate, which were hand-carved and tied in place with silk threads. Upper and lower appliances fit poorly and were held together by steel springs; therefore, retention was very difficult. Those who wore full sets of dentures had to remove them before eating. George Washington suffered from tooth loss and ill-fitting dentures. The prime reason why denture technology did not advance was because suitable materials were hard to find.
In our technological age, finding materials or methods is not an issue; however, educating dental students in a science that for decades was predicted to become an art of the past has become a major catastrophy for dentistry. Owing to dentistry’s miscalculation, the United States of America is in the midst of a denture crisis. Over forty-five million Americans, either wear complete dentures or are in need of them, plus another ninety million wear partial dentures or are in need of them. Citizens from all the above catagories are not having their denture and partial denture needs properly met. The problem today is not the lack of materials or technology; it is the lack of trained practitioners.
For decades, dental schools have been diminishing their denture curriculums to the extent that for the past forty years, graduating dentists have not received adaquate training in dentures and denture care. Consequently, modern sciences are constantly competing for curriculum space in only 4,400 hours of dental school; traditional denture care has been continuously shoved out of the picture. Today, in the U.S., over ninety percent of its over 154,000 dentists are incompetent in basic denture care skills, leaving only a few competent ones, having had to learn on their own after graduating from dental school.
Some states, mostly in the northwest, have solved the problem by instituting educational programs, in which, skilled denture technologists (craftsmen) are trained to become denturists - specialized denture care providers. Board qualified and licensed in public denture care, denturists have become unsurpassed experts in the field of dentures and denture care. Most states have not applied this remedy for their denture wearing population’s basic denture needs as of yet, due to state dental board control, strong dental lobby, large campaign contributions made by dentistry, lack of public awareness and greed. It is up to each state’s citizens, as to how long their individual denture monopolies will continue and when the public ultimately demands that enough is enough, as some state’s citizens already have.
In the meantime, if you are one of over twenty-five million American’s who are not happy with their dentures, this website and other listed resources are designed to assist you to find solutions that will help you to become more familiar with your dentures and at the same time offer practical solutions to your specific denture needs. To find qualified denture care providers, whether dentists, prosthodontists or denturists, we recommend researching websites like www.DenturesDirect.com, as well as inquiring of your friends and family.
Dental schools will continue diminishing their denture curriculums and will continue to graduate dentists who do not have adequate denture care training. Prosthodontists will continue to demand higher fees for denture care. Be as it may, the denturist profession is continually growing in spite of monopolistic state restrictions. With your help and the help of state-by-state Alternative and Complementary Health Freedom Acts, they will eventually become plentiful - Example, see www.MichiganAlternativeHealthcare.org.
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