Roberta,

<< It is also made with
 synthetic materials which eventually deteriorate, but at least there is
 no mercury, which, we know is poisonous in adequate amounts. >>

Ouch.  I'd really hate to go back and have surgery.  What's involved? Maybe I
should have just stayed a fruitarian and waited for my teeth to fall out.

Maybe that's what the fruitarians meant when they said my receding gums were
detox ;)

Aaron