Hey Doc, Just pull em all!

I’m sure we have all thought about doing this at one point or another. Skipping the hum drum of having to brush and floss daily?  NOT TRUE, not true at all!

Teeth should only be removed when they are not restorable. Sometimes someone needs to have a tooth removed as it is infected and financially they cannot afford restoring it with something like a root canal.  As teeth are removed, we lose bone in that area over time.  The bone is what helps keep a denture or partial denture in place. 

Instead of having to brush and floss your teeth, you will have to keep cleaning out the sticky/gooey unavoidable denture paste, as well as dealing with them falling out while you talk/eat or deal with food getting stuck under them.  The worst part of having denturesis that you don’t chew as well, taste your food as well or speak as well.

Even if we can just save one tooth in each quadrant in our mouth, you would be better off as a partial would have something to hang on to. Pulling that first tooth can create a domino effect. People think it wasn’t bad to have that one out and heck we can do it again. Pretty soon, it affects everything you do, smile, eat, and talk

Saving your teeth is always the best option, it truly is your smile then.

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