Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Q: I am a 72-year-old man with a missing tooth in the upper right part of my mouth. I have a long history of tooth decay and was lucky enough that my ...
In the U.S., adults over age 50 - endowed with a mouthful of 32 teeth - have lost an average of 12 teeth, including four wisdom molars. So reports the surgeon general, who observed that this loss of ...