Yes, it's true, Doc Dave's revelation is correct, I am toothless, not a single one of the 12 root canals left and not a single one of the four bridges spanning two thirds of of my mouth are left. It is sheer delight.

And you should see us when we run into each other in the hallway, my husband and I, he as handsome as ever like Cary Grant, now toothless too - and we laugh and we remember the time more than forty years ago when we found each other --------- now hurrying off to put our prostheses into our mouths, privately, without the other watching!

More than a year ago, I used to have to pull him by the arms on his belly into the bathroom! He is walking now and driving me in a car (instead of my pushing the wheelchair) if I want his company going places, and he does not hurt any longer.

No, I do not recommend anyone pulling even one tooth if it is healthy. But it is a long road from a healthy tooth to one that has been massacred over and over with drills and foreign substances not meant for the human body. I still have the box full of all the metals and metal pins that came out of my mouth - it weighs several ounces - I used it afterward to be treated for all the allergic reactions every single metal caused me long after removal. If I spit on it, I could create enough electricity to run a golf cart. I said golf cart - not start fireworks in my brain as it used to do!

Yes, and - O - how good it feels to be well again, to be lymesymptom free - just toothless and well, and sleeping rocksolid and painfree in Seattle.

Thanks DocDave, you have really put yourself out for me and shown your true self over and over. Now it's time for you to quit imitating the Mad Hatter and go and find some peace.

To the rest of you, no, don't pull your healthy teeth. But beware and wonder and study dental health, if you still can't get well after a few years of trying so hard.

Take care.