It’s very interesting to know that when a patient has teeth that are missing or they have spaces in their mouth, it’s not that we can’t put the tooth back. What it’s really about is them being able to know how to keep the tooth there and keep their other teeth there. So when we do implants, what we do in bridges, when we put teeth back in these spaces, that’s not hard to do at all.
It’s very easy. The hard part is to be able to educate the patient to be able to keep it there. You know, the thing that patients do is when they come in and they get this treatment, they would like for it to be able to last.
In doing the treatment, which we feel is the easy part, the challenge is helping the patient keep that treatment, make it last. Because it’s funny, the other day I commented to the fact that now it’s gotten to where to get a tooth cost an arm and a leg, you know, and it’s this kind of that aspect where the price of replacing teeth because of what inflation and everything has done has gotten to the point where if you’re going to spend that money on your teeth, you would like to be able to keep them there, you see. So it’s more so than just replacing the tooth, it’s also the aspect of being able to help the patient keep that tooth, keep it there.
And that’s more so than I think of this in the discussion like, okay, well, we can put a tooth there. Okay, well, how are you going to keep it there?
