I might agree with the warnings about implants. What helped me decide on ful extractions was the concerns over chronic illness from the cavitation problem. I had terrible pains, then headaches and Trigeminal neuralgia [face pains] from the bad teeth. No dentist of doctor would halp me, nor would they even confirm that bacterial and toxic problems exist in 'bad teeth'. I had fibromyaliga for 15 years, then IBS and those terrible headaches all day all year. I went crazy, but somehow I didn't kill anyone! My uppers are all gone now, and I have adental plate. These are better than a partial, so I hear, because the whole roof of the mouth can be used to give stability. Its no fun, the denture is not better that teeth, but living is very good! Health has no substute. I do not regre it at all, but it is tough for a few months. A few months! - compared to 15 years and disabling pain, ya, I would do it again 1000 times. I have very little to chew on at the bottom, just a few in front. I hope to get going on a partial soon. The only teeth I have left WERE NEVER WORKED ON. No fillings, no cavities either. I was 4 yrs. old when the dentist started filling every tiny cavity. That was the end of those teeth, in reality, but they did not get pulled for 40 years! That is wrong by any standard - in Briton they don't work on kids cavities that way now - they use ozone bags and the cavities go away. This is not well-disseminated news over here, due to lawsuits I suppose. In reading the Dental Boot Camp info for dentists [ I am posing as a dentist and getting the flyers], I see they say that "THe boomer generations teeth are needing billion$ worth of dental treatments, and they do not want false teeth". See, they were counting on us all being rich enough to afford it, and for those that are not, forget them, so dentistry will ruin teeth so that at age 30 or 40, they will need all sorts of bridges and root canals and implants.This is called "The golden age of dentistry. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO WONDER YOU HAVE TROUBLE FINDING A DENTIST WHO WILL PULL THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They have brainwashed dentists into believeing that those of us who come in screaming that the pains are so bad, and maybe affecting the whole body, are merly hysterical. The dentists may not realise what they are doing to us. It might not be their fault, other than to allow themselves to be brainwashed or manipulated by money and debt and threats to their family. It all starts in medical schools,where much conniving crap happens to get all doctors and dentists 'under control'. The pharmaceutical companies are in control of the medical schools. They fund them. Heavy debt, family ties, and the ambition that most hig-functioning [smart] people have are ways to control them do to the decils work. Karlin.