>What's going on with these guys? Are they for real? My wife's has her >convinced that she needs about 20k of work to clean out her 'pockets' >plus some other stuff. What happened to flossing? My parents predated >fluorine and their teeth were fine. This seems to be more of a >fashionable thing to do rather than a real need. Contagious behaviors >among girlfriends and peers. When a future archeologist finds our >remains those whites better be in pristine or he's gonna hear from me. >Is this a rip off or what? I'm serious.
"Pockets" can be serious, and typically are symptomatic of periodontal disease. There are linkages between periodontal disease, diabetes, and heart disease, and it's not clear which direction the cause/effect stream runs. Once a person has periodontal disease, flossing won't fix it. It will sometimes help control it but if it gets out of control--and it will at some point--stronger measures are necessary, OTOH, $20k for deep scaling or even the new-fangled laser treatment is waaay out of bounds. Should be more like $1500--$2000 for deep scaling and maybe $5000 for the laser treatment, both for full-mouth coverage. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
