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Fifty years of removables, the long and short
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<blockquote data-quote="CoolHandLuke" data-source="post: 134051" data-attributes="member: 4850"><p>dentures to me are simply one method of treatment.</p><p></p><p>i don't understand why the fuss about making CADCAM dentures? if the purpose was to mimic what was already in the mouth, a computer can compute that much faster than any normal human - and as a control measure, a human is required to oversee and approve. </p><p></p><p>its not as though you push a big red button and a denture pops out of a machine.</p><p></p><p>there is a lot of thinking going on and the software is always being improved. it is altogether true that a properly trained denturist should be able to use CADCAM to make dentures JUST AS EASILY as if he/she were doing it with wax and plastic.</p><p></p><p>if anything the process of creating dentures has improved to be more Time efficient, as well as material efficient. less time lost cutting, adding, realizing you were right the first time, and cutting. all that lost time and material is solved with CADCAM.</p><p></p><p>implants are yet again another means of treatment. its the right thing to do in some cases. the bone is healthy. it will work.</p><p></p><p>if a patient doesnt NEED to go though a 4 visit process to replace a tooth with a denture, why would you prescribe it? </p><p></p><p>all these treatment options cater to a wide variety of needs, for a wide variety of incomes, and a wide variety of problems.</p><p></p><p>but it has not changed the dental practice, only allowed it to have greater flexibility. allowed more patients to come in, and allowed some doctors to specialize.</p><p></p><p>dentures were a new, hot commodity when they were invented; in an era where peasants trode the battlefield to pluck teeth from dead soldiers, and on their own, hammer them into their faces.</p><p></p><p>dentures were a sign of affluence once.</p><p></p><p>we will come full circle soon - the advent of stem cell grown teeth will be implanting teeth into people's faces again but this time their own teeth, and not someone else's. this occurs in a highly sterile, very high tech process involving a lot of computer power (to map genomes and chart stem cell growth, and code stem cells). </p><p></p><p>imagine what comes after stem cell teeth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CoolHandLuke, post: 134051, member: 4850"] dentures to me are simply one method of treatment. i don't understand why the fuss about making CADCAM dentures? if the purpose was to mimic what was already in the mouth, a computer can compute that much faster than any normal human - and as a control measure, a human is required to oversee and approve. its not as though you push a big red button and a denture pops out of a machine. there is a lot of thinking going on and the software is always being improved. it is altogether true that a properly trained denturist should be able to use CADCAM to make dentures JUST AS EASILY as if he/she were doing it with wax and plastic. if anything the process of creating dentures has improved to be more Time efficient, as well as material efficient. less time lost cutting, adding, realizing you were right the first time, and cutting. all that lost time and material is solved with CADCAM. implants are yet again another means of treatment. its the right thing to do in some cases. the bone is healthy. it will work. if a patient doesnt NEED to go though a 4 visit process to replace a tooth with a denture, why would you prescribe it? all these treatment options cater to a wide variety of needs, for a wide variety of incomes, and a wide variety of problems. but it has not changed the dental practice, only allowed it to have greater flexibility. allowed more patients to come in, and allowed some doctors to specialize. dentures were a new, hot commodity when they were invented; in an era where peasants trode the battlefield to pluck teeth from dead soldiers, and on their own, hammer them into their faces. dentures were a sign of affluence once. we will come full circle soon - the advent of stem cell grown teeth will be implanting teeth into people's faces again but this time their own teeth, and not someone else's. this occurs in a highly sterile, very high tech process involving a lot of computer power (to map genomes and chart stem cell growth, and code stem cells). imagine what comes after stem cell teeth. [/QUOTE]
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