Just 5 short days ago I had a tooth pulled... really couldn't do much else with it, had cracks all over and it was bothering me, the dentist said even he would pull that tooth if it were his own. At any rate, in the process, they took xrays and the dental assistant remarked point blank, 'Very clean healthy gums, no jawbone deterioration... and again, I will repeat, my wisdom teeth were pulled over 27 years ago. If jawbone deterioration or TMJ were to result it surely would have happend by now.

90-95% of people over age 50-55 have had some teeth pulled and they most certainly are not all suffering. In fact, the sufferers are a minority not a majority, but we don't hear from people without problems do we? Jill will probably reconsider her position after she herself loses her first tooth, which, is probably as inevitable for her as it is for the rest of us. Of course she may choose to suffer with a dental bandaid instead for a while...

BTW, I have two siblings, one age 43, the other age 48, who have taken cortisone/hydrocortisone since they were infants... they have a birth defect which luckily missed me... adrenal problems, they would die without the cortisone... but neither of them has lost any teeth to date so where Jill gets her information on that is questionable also.

She may call it science but it certainly isn't reality.