[Hitch]

Dennis:

I don't know that it's that horribly expensive--we have a Baby CNC milling machine here, that Mr. Hitch just "had to have," of course (SIGH). He runs it from an older computer that I could no longer really use, but it chugs away merrily driving the milling program.

Now, it's likely NOT the same thing, quite, as a dental milling machine, but...then again, why not? After all, it's not like the cleaning etc., occurs then. It doesn't need to be in a clean-room, you can do that later.

How interesting that is! I'd no idea, but you're right--makes perfect sense.

(I, too, have crap Irish-ancestry teeth, but I'm hanging on to mine through a regimen of deranged dental care at home. I'm the queen o'floss, water piks, yadda-yadda. It's silly, but...<shrug> there you go. My mother had full uppers by the time she went. Mine are actually fairly decent, BUT...it's that fanatical flossing, piking, blabbety.)

ETA: Oh, sorry, I meant to say to you, WT, that that occasionally happens to me. If it happens to you again: do you have receding gums, or perhaps pockets near a bridge? I have this one spot, where the gum isn't uber-snug up against the tooth. I have to water-pik it (and under my bridge) religiously, or a microscopic bit of food or liquid something will get caught in there, that doesn't come out with brushing, and then it will form an equally microscopic blister--that hurts like an abscess. If you water pik religiously, it keeps the particles out of there, OR, at the least, it will "pop" the wee blister, providing wonderful relief. Post the waterpik, rinse like a madman with something like Listerine, and it will clear it right up by the following day. Also, if you don't want to be a waterpik-ing madman, IF the abscessed feeling comes back, do the same--waterpik, followed by rinsing with Listerine, and quite often, that will resolve it for you.




Hitch