Denturists are indeed needed for some

The news was not good, so many people needed Rickey Michael Miller, the Denturist, who was facing four misdemeanor counts which includes “practicing dentistry without a license,” “installing dentures without proper credentials.”

A number of people were looking forward to his return to practice. They need dentures and could not afford the three thousand dollars ($ 3,000) asked by almost all other dentists. for a set of dentures. This condemns people with small, limited incomes to either do without, or to continue wearing old, worn out dentures with teeth worn smooth, with gaps where some are missing., so worn food fills space under them.. The old dentures loosen so they rock and create problems.. The old dentures don’t stay put properly. They rock and rub so they create sores. Probably worst of all, they are no longer able to masticate any but soft, tender food..

All my life I have had bad teeth. At age twelve I had permanent teeth pulled, and had a partial plate installed at age fourteen.

I remember night after night as a child, going to bed with bad toothaches. Mother put

oil of cloves in the tooth and I held a bag of hot salt against it to ease the pain

– only nothing did. Poor Mother, she could do little except commiserate. There was no money for a dentist, much less a running vehicle to go to Weavervillle to see Dr. Moore.

Over the years my teeth continued to rot.. Our diet was excellent with plenty of milk and vegetables. . Dr. Moore told me later that filling my teeth was like drilling a hole in a sugar lump then dropping it in water. Nobody could figure why my teeth decayed so fast..

At twenty-one I’d had enough. I was married and went to Dr. Erno on Redding.

My wisdom teeth had just come through and he wanted to leave them but I told him, “No, no, N O! They’ll be rotten in less than a year.” I’d had my last toothache.