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I've had issues with the upper rear most teeth on the right side of my mouth for the past several years, mainly due to bone and gum loss from being too aggressive with the tooth brush earlier in life and 40 years of smoking. Since having 2 (known) heart attacks in the past 3 years I've been unable to take Ibuprofen. So for the pain in that tooth I had been eating Tylenol almost like candy.
Then a couple of months ago, my Doc said congratulations, you are a diabetic! So from that point, I have done my best to cut out all the past "sugary" things in life. No more sweet iced tea (!) no more sodas. Remarkably, the pain in that tooth has all but gone away. Apparently it was a sugar sensitive kind of thing.
FWIW, in Central Mississippi, my friend Pete had ALL of his upper teeth removed and a complete set of implants installed for right at $10k. It was an "end of the month corporate says we haven't done enough business" kind of deal, done by an outfit that even my Dentist--who is one of the priciest in town---considers an ok outfit.
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