About the Book

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!

From babies to boomers, Got Teeth? A Survivor’s Guide illustrates the importance of the mouth/body connection and good oral health for our overall well-being.

You can have a beautiful smile and guard against periodontal disease, jawbone loss, tooth loss, diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, pre-term low-birth weight babies, osteoporosis, and more.

Learn about oral health risks in general and specifically for women, prevention of periodontal disease, bone loss, and tooth loss, gaining a denture, 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.

Keep smiling.Saundra