To The Editor:
Thank you from Kevin Eurich and Steve Allen for your compliments. Your compliments are very flattering; and Kevin, I am especially pleased to learn that your “wily chipped front tooth is still going fine, Even after retiring, feedback like that makes those 45 years of my daily grind down in the orifice [sic] worth the effort.
Those of us who work with the public have two lists: customers, clients, and patients with whom we kibitz, schmooze, and develop friendly, meaningful rapports. With you two, and so many others, I enjoyed and really miss those friendly times; although, most conversations were one-way due to the nature of provided services.
And then, there’s the other list…
Working in a ski area enabled me the opportunity to restore dentitions that suffered traumatic injuries using evidence-based successful treatment plans. Forty-eight years ago, we were not trained or prepared for those procedures simply because the necessary equipment and materials had been neither invented nor available.
If you need dental care, now is the time to pursue it. Research has connected the link between oral disease and many, many serious systemic diseases. Using CAT scans, mummies can be inspected without destroying them. That technology has added to our understanding of dental disease, quality of life, and life expectancy. Materials, equipment, implants, and our understanding of the oral microbiology has placed dentistry on a cutting edge of health maintenance. Except for extenuating circumstances, tooth loss is preventable for your lifetime. As ‘they’ say, “Put your money where your mouth is.”
Dr. Steve Zonies
Fayston
