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So, when you eat ice cream, or drink a margarita, one of your molars, or maybe even a bicuspid, is sensitive. So, you take that problem tooth to your friendly, neighborhood dentist, and he says you need that tooth capped (or crowned). What’s that about? When you drill on a crystalline structure, like glass, or porcelain, or tooth enamel, the heat of friction from the drilling device puts microscopic fractures in the material. When we have to put a big filling in a tooth, those little fractures pre-dispose the tooth to further fracture, virtually splitting the tooth, in subsequent years. Later, after years of chewing trauma, the nerve becomes irritated from this microscopic splitting during chewing. This hypersensitivity is usually manifested as temperature sensitivity. Just replacing the filling doesn’t really help because the cracks are already there. A crown, on the other hand, holds the tooth together, like the band on a barrel, so the splitting activity stops. If t

I think we all grew up thinking that medical or dental insurance was there for our benefit, like they were taking care of us. Well, it just ain’t so. Any insurance is a product to make stockholders money. And although there’s nothing wrong with people wanting to make money in the market, that’s the main focus of that industry, not taking care of us.

Even before the current attempt by the federal government to force us into government-run socialized medicine (run by the same people who screwed-up medicare, social security, and the post-office), all of us had become aware of the truth about insurance, as “covered benefits” decreased and “co-pays” increased.

So, it is a real pleasant surprise for me to be able to report that Delta Dental of Illinois has announced their Enhanced Benefits Program offering “enhanced benefits for those with high-risk medical conditions”. Systemic diseases like diabetes, pregnancy, cardio-vascular conditions, renal disorders, cancer-rel