On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:58:32 +0100, "James Harris"
wrote:

Anyone tried dental DIY? Anyone brave enough to consider it? Or is it
easier and safer, if approached responsibly, than one might imagine?

There was a chap on TV who disapproved of dentists on much the same grounds as
diy-ers disapprove of professionals, i.e. he figured he could do a better job
cheaper, and with less trouble, bunch of robbers, easy if you know how, etc.
etc.

He'd get stuff at a dentists supply, and dremeled down teeth to stumps, using a
diamond burr, added a cap of cement, and then dremelled that to tooth shape.
(Car body filler an angle grinder, pretty much). Most/all of these teeth were
removable, and stuck in place with spit or denture adhesive cream. Oh, and he'd
do little here, a little there, like fettling a model train or something.

A dentist looked at the work, pronounced it a bodge of the higest order, and
expressed amazement that the chap could eat, smile, and generally not be
completely miserable, and extra amazement at doing all this without local
anaesthetic.

I could probably google up the TV show, but it was bad enough watching the first
time, seeing the fellow spit all his teeth out like a cartoon character...


Thomas Prufer