It seems that I’m going to write about my new teeth. Some may think that I’m telling them more than they really want to know. But I wrote about it when I got my new hearing aid, and hearing aids and false teeth are part and parcel of the process of growing old for many oldsters.

My daughter Mary tells me that she used to think that all old people had dentures until she met a woman in her 80’s who still had her own teeth. She now thinks such a thing is achievable and is determined to take better care of the teeth God gave her. In my case, I recall no dentistry until I was 17 and got a job that offered free dental care! What a blessing! I promptly had them taken care of and when I was in college a fellow student asked me if I had false teeth! At the time I couldn’t imagine why she would ask such a thing. In retrospect I now realize that she probably did not really like her own teeth and therefore paid extra attention to the teeth of others. Mine were white, straight, and even, like false teeth. That was then — 65 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »