Welcome!

Your heart beats quickly, your knuckles clench, and your palms sweat. First date? Job interview? No. The receptionist just called your name and asked you to have a seat - in the DENTIST’S CHAIR!

Learn about oral health risks in general and specifically for women, prevention of periodontal disease, bone loss, and tooth loss, gaining replacement teeth, healing, recovery, recipes for the chewing disabled, dental insurance, ethics, and quackery, with notes and quotes from dental professionals.

My mission is to educate and help you save your teeth or accept and laugh through the fear, discomfort, and surprises of tooth loss with humor and hope.

Thanks to Hollywood and advertising, teeth have become the ultimate consumer accessories.

Section One can help save your teeth, improve your health, enhance your quality of life, and contribute to the pleasures of living and eating. It dispels the myths, removes the mystery, and illustrates the importance of good oral health for our overall well-being and, in some cases, our very lives.

Section Two prepares you for the emotional, physical, and psychological obstacles the universe holds (they are infinite) if you are losing your teeth, and what they don't tell you in that little piece of paper with your home care instructions. We are not prepared for the emotional and psychological consequences of tooth loss because nobody talks about it.

What I know for sure is that it’s all connected.

I wish you good dental health.

Member of the National Association of Baby Boomer Women (NABBW)

What's in Chapter 1 -
How did this happen and what the !?#@?! is it?

• 7 types of periodontal disease
• 8 risk factors and 10 symptoms in general and specifically for women
• 6 risks it poses to our continued well being
• 12 ways to prevent it from becoming chronic or acute
• 4 risk factors and 8 symptoms of oral cancer