"I speak from my Personal
Experience."
In spite of a life
time of fillings, flossing, tooth brushings, tooth
pickings, root-canals, caps, extractions, gum
ministrations, veneers, et al. I reached, at the age of
sixty-seven, an almost insurmountable dental speed-hump
(see picture).
My face and all that pertains, such as
smile, speech and facial contours, had deteriorated into
almost farce. I had shortened teeth, both capped and
uncapped, irregular gaps, unsightly fillings, chronic
abscesses, and painful eating.
My condition was the
result of modern dentistry practicing not only pain
relief, but also treatments based on a patient's ability
to pay.
Give the patient what he can afford, not
what is essential for extended dental competency. It is
vitally essential to maintain full dental integrity from
the very start through to old age. You would think that
when you walk into a dental surgery you will receive
that concept. Not true! You normally only receive a
patchwork deal that is a compromise between you
immediate pain, the dentist's personal skill and the
depth of your pocket.
This is a tacit
agreement to proceed with immediate treatment without
due regard to the ongoing subtle overall deterioration
of your teeth. No thought is given to the future as
regards losing dental competency as the years go by.
This has been described amongst the profession as
"supervised neglect".
The essence is to keep drilling, patching,
capping, extracting, cleaning, root-canalling to a
price, whilst the proper structural integrity of your
teeth is gradually, without your notice, lost. How and
why have you lost your young and healthy dentate, why
are you now wondering at the state of your teeth, and
how do you get back your young dental profile, when your
teeth mostly probably did look like a film-star's.
I want to convince
you that your teeth need the Essential Dental Program
which most dentists cannot at the moment offer, but Dr.
Andrew Sih has the philosophy and skills to
deliver.
This Essential Dental Program will recreate
your teeth to as close as practical to the pattern of
dental perfection:
Firstly, what is left in your mouth after
decades of supervised neglect is prepared to a condition
of balance, where all abscesses and decayed teeth are
removed, faulty root-canals replaced, all fillings
corrected, and all gums
reconditioned.
Then, and only then,
is a complete facsimile of dental perfection, in-situ,
overlaid the initial preparation. This pattern is
created by hand in plastic, as if the dentist was a tiny
sculptor in your mouth carving by the skill of his hand
and eye your new teeth.
Only by means of this plastic copy can a
recreation of film-star teeth be fashioned in your
mouth. The plastic facsimile is gradually replaced with
proper materials, such as porcelain. There may be the
need to fasten the porcelain facsimile to implants or
bridges if original teeth are
missing.
A mouth full of
porcelain dental prosthesis, you say! Yes, but I prefer
this at my age to my earlier shocking dental appearance,
painful chewing, galloping deterioration, and having to
end up with the unpleasant alternative: dentures.
I now have a mouth full of natural looking
film-star teeth, a full smile, the ability to eat
properly, and no future deterioration. Thanks
to Dr.
Sih.”
Regards,
Brian
Lambert
