Advances in dentistry are pleasing to patient

To The Eagle:

Modern hi-tech dentistry has come to Cathlamet!

Locally I recently had a broken crown replaced. Much of the variable art of human artisans has been replaced with the perfection and precision of the computer. The computer reads and collects a record of all the pits, grooves, bumps and every variable of the tooth that makes up the grinding surfaces of the tooth that one uses to chew food. The new tooth, when glued into place, matches the opposing surface perfectly.

No back and forth to the lab, and a 10-day wait, and then the artistic refit. The same day, with the perfect computer design, a cube of quartz is converted to the perfect tooth, then “heat” hardened, and then glued in. Done! Wow! I won’t use it to crack hickory nuts with, but I probably could.

Boone Mora

Doctor of Public Health

Skamokawa